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errorpwns on 19 August 2013
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the-pi-guy said:
errorpwns said:
the-pi-guy said:

nly game, I said servers can also be done on PS4.  With the success of the game at E3, and the fact that they are already outsourcing the game for the other versions suggest they are positive of it's success.  

  Yoshida said that "of course" PS4 developers will be able to take advantage of cloud-based computing for their titles.

"Linking, matchmaking... there are already many computations being done on the cloud side," Yoshida said, adding that there are limitations to what processes can be offloaded to a remote computer, due to latency and bandwidth.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/12/4424022/sony-shuhei-yoshida-says-ps4-cloud-computing-calculations

Admittingly I did not fully read the article.

"McClandlish also shed a bit more light on the decision to make Titanfall an Xbox exclusive (it'll launch for both Xbox One and Xbox 360 in Q1 2014). "We're a very small team, so we had to pick a platform if we were going to be on consoles," he said, "and Xbox made the most sense."

This part though is lying.  Even though they admit MS helped them with servers, MS is helping everyone with servers, that's the whole point of "Cloud" computing, they're doing that better than Sony it would seem.  It's no reason for exclusivity though.  Especially when EA is so sure of its success.  It'd be very easy for them to move it over to PS4.  PS3 not so much.  Some big exclusives were ported by 2 or 3 people over only a few months.  

Watch_Dogs was supposedly using Cloud for stuff, I thought.  MS helped them set that up of course if they did, and yet it's still coming to PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3.

You completely took that out of context again. "Cloud computing" and "Dedicated servers" Are two entirely different beast.  Cloud computing is offloading processor task to a server elsewhere. Dedicated servers have been around way before cloud computing started taking off. You keep arguing with me yet the only "evidence" you bring up has nothing to do with the subject at hand. I'm beginning to think you don't actually throughly read over the articles before you post it. Dedicated servers =/= Cloud computing. Also the titanfall team is a whole lot smaller than Ubisoft. Do you know how much money Ubisoft is most likely funding into Watch Dogs? I bet a lot more than Respawn can afford to put into Titanfall. Of course Ubisoft can afford to bring Watch Dogs to the PS4 and Wii U and PS3 and Xbox 360 and PC. Whereas Respawn has a lot less to work with. Once again I am going to stress that Cloud Computing and Dedicated servers are not the same.

If Ubisoft can afford to bring Watch Dogs to PS4, etc. then EA can also.  Azure has the advantage over Dedicated servers due only to cost.  MS already has servers, they are just waiting for companies to use them.  Azure can be used for dozens of different things, so MS has to keep all the servers going to be able to be used when they need to.  

Titanfall is not an ambitious game.  It's not doing anything online or offline that other games aren't already doing.  Calculations or sending information, neither of which aren't impossible on current hardware.  

Are you serious? Wow just wow. You do realize that EA doesn't give all their developers the same amount of cash to work with right? I guess not. Also current gen games have PLENTY of latency issues. Due to not having dedicated servers. It's actually pretty horrifying having to go from dedicated servers on the PC in some games to console versions that require cruddy match making and awful host.