Machiavellian said:
So tell me how is Sony going to strike this great deal. Are they going to eat the cost to make dedicated servers from Google, Amazon or one of the other big datacenters cheap enough for devs to want to do it on the PS4. How many servers are going to be needed. Will these servers be up all the time or spin up like MS is doing. Spinning up a dedicated server require you already have an infrastructure in place. How many countries will they support. How much resources per 3rd party developer. You need to look at how many servers Gaikai support. Last I remeber Giakai did not even own those servers, they rent them but I will did that bit of info up later as I am working. heat map looks great but capacity is the key. Hell in my company we rent space all over the world and it looks great if you looking at a map of such. What we do not have is the ability to server millions of users all over the world at the same quality level. Either way, this will not be a conversation I expect to have about Sony doing what MS is doing any time soon. |
Do you really think that Sony paid 380 million for them, with no hardware? Yeah, don’t think so.
In 2011 I think it was Gaikai was named the largest Game steaming network in the world by Guinness world records. It's Large enough to support PS4 in the first few years, and you know Sony has been investing in it, they didn't just buy them and say "yep that’s it were good'. Fuck no, they are smarter than that.
You can forget about how large MS cloud is when they are only using one gear is used for live. This is what I’m getting at, The end user experience isn’t going to be noticeable by a large portion the population.
Do you know what a dino queen is? A car the process a shit tone of power looks good on paper but has a car with less horse power keeping up with it in the real world. That how I see MS and Sony.
Will Sony Chase to have the world’s largess sever farm? NO, why do they need to, they don’t. Will the chase the best gaming network, yes.