ironmanDX said:
Pemalite said:
Daisuke72 said:
The PS4 was built to provide a next generation experience that's cost efficient, not to be ahead of a PC.... My current PC has better hardware than the PS4 and it costed 800 dollars.
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Actually... A PC that's about 4+ years old can be faster than the PS4.
The great thing about PC? You're not limited to just a single graphics card, set clock speeds (You can overclock) or memory amounts, for example throw 4x Radeon 5870's into a machine and watch it obliterate a Radeon 7870 in benchmarks.
Granted 4x 5870's aren't exactly efficient... But it's still faster. :)
I also personally think cloud computing is more hassle than it's worth, for starters... It adds latency, you need servers that are physically near you which means a majority of the world is going to have a poor experience, you can't change the law of physics afterall.
Secondly, you must have a reliable internet connection that also has plenty of bandwidth, hence a 3G connection that only achieves 1Mbps ain't going to cut it.
Thirdly, the games servers must be online at all times, take it from those who played Sim City or Diablo 3 at or a little after launch on what their experiences were like. Hint: Was not pretty.
In-fact I still get allot of "Rubber banding" issues in Diablo 3 as my data has to cross my continent, across the Pacific before reaching Blizzards servers in the United states before making that same trip all the way back again, and that's with a 15Mbps ADSL connection with interleaving turned off for the lowest possible latency.
If Microsoft's "Cloud" servers are all in the USA, then forget it, I'm not interested in that technology when I might end up waiting a second or two in latency.
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What? I'm in Melbourne and I've very rarely experienced lag on Diablo 3. Especially rubber banding. I get the obvious amounts of ping but it's far better than trying to play Halo 4 on a US peer host.
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As a resident of Sydney who has expirience 300ms ping for Diablo versus 80 ping on FPS, trust me the difference is like day and night. Right now you're living in the night and don't know the pain your suffering because it has always been night, be glad... ~_^
