Looks like Sony built PS4 to compete the Xbox 360, only with better graphics/specs

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secpierre34 said:

actually there is. The internet speed was just arbitrary, i have no idea what the US average is but it must be close to that. Any calculation performed in the cloud must be transferred back to the machine. you are confusing cloud streaming like everybody else. You can only receive 5MB/s  data or whatever the consumer has at his/her disposal. Cloud streaming however only fetches back the finalize calculation. Is like watching through a window what has been done. Cloud computing is doing it while staying within the clock cylcle of the machine, which creates another dilemma due to the variation in latency but you can just chose appropriate tasks. Put it this way you can in fact perform crazy calculation in the cloud while receivin at 5MB/s rate data, however you are still limited by what you get. some calculation need more 5mb of data, you can't compress then decompress something already plagued by latency. I get what you are saying but internet speed is the limiting factor. No matter how complex the calculation of the cloud, the 5mb data transfer is the maximum you get.

Yeah, I admit, I am no expert in cloud computing, but anyway, after what you've written here, I think we have a similar understanding of what can be done and what are the benefits. Sure, bandwith is a the limiting factor. I just imagined a decision problem like "Is the nth position after the decimal point of PI a number  smaller or bigger than x" where n is considerable big. The answer to that question (Yes or No) could be coded in one bit, but the computation for that answer would benefit from the power of the cloud.