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Slimebeast on 18 June 2013
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disolitude said:
Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:
Slimebeast said:

No.

Milo was a proof of concept about possibly cool stuff working with an actual product (kinect).

This 35 light years space sim is a proof of concept about possibly cool stuff working with an actual product (cloud).

Don't tell me you are buying into the hype twice?


Space sim with Xbox One = proof of concept

Games utilizing cloud computing  = true since the 1990s

Microsoft Azure being one the best cloud services available = true

Xbox One offering free Azure based cloud computing for all Xbox one devs = fact

Devs utilizing cloud computing on Xbox one in games being released this year = fact

I am not sure what hype there is to buy. 

So it only gets worse. If games have been utilizing cloud computing since the freaking 90's, but we as gamers evidently don't feel any important results from it, then what else is this Microsoft cloud computing talk than empty marketing words without any tangible effect on the ground?


1. Its never been utilized on this scale with the type of cloud computing performance currently achievable by Azure

2. Internet is a lot faster today than in the 1990s.

3. Xbox One is designed with cloud computing in mind. According to the article it checks 500,000 times per second for cloud updates

Seriously though, Quake 3 bots used servers to calculate their AI. This idea isn't anything new. What is new is scale and design around it.

Also the fact its offered to everyone at no cost makes it the staus quo on the Xbox One side. Not so much on the Sony's end where a company like EA is still going to have to run their own servers, and shut them down when games arent popular...and not utilize the cloud whenever absolutely necessary in order to save cost. 

Why would it check that often? It doesn't make any sense to spam the internet connection with 500k calls per second, not when latency issues are in the 100's of milliseconds. I smell BS.

I could believe 500 calls per second, not 500,000. Isn't that speed almost as fast as the CPU cycle? I call total BS.

You believe in cloud computing with Xbone making a difference in games. I hope it is true but I just can't believe in it. I am tired of heaing promises and wishes without proof.