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Slimebeast on 18 June 2013
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Pemalite said:
Slimebeast said:

In essense it's a weak selling point for the cloud and more importantly, this feature suggests nothing groundbreaking for the future of cloud computing either.

I remain sceptical about cloud computing. At this point it's just another gimmick.


It's not really a weak selling point...
Anything that is internet connected can have games rendered on the cloud and sent to a device, regardless of how powerfull it is.
If the good old Dreamcast could have the grunt to playback 1080P video and a little light processing on the side, then that too could technically have graphics equal to a PS4 game, with all the processing done on the cloud.

However, we are still in the early days of cloud computing, so who knows what it might look like in 5-10 years time, but the potential isn't anything to scoff at.
However, latency is still a big killer with cloud gaming IMHO and you couldn't pay me to use it if I had a viable choice of an offline alternative.

You contradict yourself. On one hand you say cloud and AI isn't a weak selling point, but another hand you say "latency is still a big killer" and you ask what it might look like in 5-10 years time.

Do you think latency issues and "come back and see in 5-10 years" are strong selling points for the cloud on Xbone?