Necromunda said:
Zappykins said:
People seem to forget that Sony got into 'cloud gaming' years ago when they bought Everquest. And it cracks me up that the same one that say it will never work for the Xbox One, talk about how great Gaihkai will be. Which is much more sensitive to latency.
What this shows me, that much like having Bill Gates personally introduce the first Xbox, is that Microsoft is very serious about putting it resources and muscles behind the Xbox One. The dedicated servers, possible per-rendering of light and stuff, will make a great and powerful service.
It is a great long term strategy to provide an excellent service.
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It's neat, but Sony basically came out and said that Developers already have access to similar tools on the PS4 if they want to use them in development, they just aren't spinning "THE POWER OF TEH CLOUDZ" like Microsoft. Sony is putting it's focus on Gaikai, a much more ambitious use of "The Cloud" IMO. Also, I really hate the term The Cloud.
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Please do not start flaming/derailing now; Gaikai is a completly different thing...
The term cloud is correctly used by Microsoft. Sony may say whatever they want about having the possbility for developpers to use it or not, the reality is that for cloud infrastructure to power that kind of demand (millions of consoles) in VCPUs is just completly out of reach for Sony. Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3 took YEARS to build datacenter and put in place the infratructure. You can pretend to ignore that fact but just bing (or google I guess) for Azure/S3 datacenters, those are huge beasts and only MS/Amazon can actually afford to offer that right now.
Now that being said, Sony is right when they are saying that developpers can use it even from the Playstation 4, they can; but they need to use either Amazon S3 or Azure... Even Apple is using Azure/S3 for their iCloud...
