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Machiavellian on 24 June 2013
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Pemalite said:
Dmick90 said:

Misinformed about what? The fact that the Xbox will have access to an infinite amount of power from the cloud is not opinion, that's fact. You don't even know what the power of the cloud can do.

The PS4 will be obsolete in about 2 years when PC specs surpass it again, while the Xbox will continue to get more and more powerful. Come back to me when you can show me a game that looks better on PS4, until then shut your mouth.


No need to get nasty.
You make it sound as if other devices can't have any form of cloud computing, which would be false, no special hardware is required other than a dash of Internet access and a pinch of server.

And a whole lot of money.  A platform built to support cloud computing and the resources to make it happen.  Its not just turning on a switch and suddenly you have a cloud computing platform.  Its not like you can just pop up a couple racks of servers and suddenly you can support millions of gamers.  It takes software to make it happen.  It takes billions of dollars on servers around the world to make it happen.  It takes a incredible complex infrastructure to manage those resources.  There are very few companies in the world who have that and really the list is closer to 3.  Amazon, Google and MS.

People make crazy statements that Sony could do something like this and its just that crazy.  Sony isn't even on the playing field compared to where MS, Amazon and Google are at.  They have not put 14 billion dollars investment in such a system and they currently only have Gaikai as their platform which doesn't do cloud compute.  Just turning the service around to do cloud compute would take a tremendous amount of money and you would have to have the people capable of creating the infrastructure.

Last but not least, people forget that MS is offering this for FREE.  To understand having Azure as a resource for free for any game you make is huge.  No its not gamer huge because gamers can only concentrage on what they can see.  But as a developer, you have this vast resource that may or may not make your games better but its there and its free.  At least now every gamer will have a dedicated server when they play any multiplayer game which is something Neither Sony or Nintendo can do.