Cloud Powered Gaming on Xbox One

[Madword]

endimion said:

Madword said:

endimion said:
*puts haters hat+
but that could be done before, the claoodzzz$$$ is PR crap.... they've been doing that forever....

It's not about haters on the whole (though some people are on the internet unfortunately).. unfortunately you are doing the exact same thing as the haters - hating back, it annoys you so much that you also stand defending it as much as they are attacking it, but the result is the same... standstill but also lack of clarity.

last time I checked it's the MS forum... I don't have to defend anything here I just state facts on my console of choice.... I don't hate back.... gaikai is a poor solution considering you have to pay for the games.... and it has nothing on MS cloud infra....
those are facts... I would love to see a streaming solution on XB1 too but if I have to pay for the games and get such a bad service.... it won't be worth it just as much....
but if Sony pulls it off... good for them i'll be jealous some... but i will still not compare to what MS cloud is putting on the table... and that is unreachable by Sony alone...
this is not hate it's all facts.... my tone is the wrong one.... but I'm not the one invading here... I'm at home...

Gaikia is kind of a different solution, but very similar (lol just to confuse matters :)

Gaikia is basically sending screen data and controller movements down the pipe. It's not particularly efficient yet for displaying games, as unfortunately games are updating many times a second. I used to be involved in Citrix/Terminal services which is a similar concept... biggest problem is these services were never great at displaying apps not alone games. I think for the idea that Sony might have, being able to see what others are playing and then joining in, will be quite cool, and i also think you will be able to pay PS1/PS2 games with no problem (cause resolution is low anyway).

Cloud, is all about data processing, which is similar to Citrix/Terminal services could also do in where you have a server somewhere which you are connected to and that server is doing the heavy lifting. So you might have a crappy invoicing app - the actual screen stuff would be sent back to your machine. But when you do a report it does all processing at the server and just displays the result, or in this case sends the data back to the machine. The question is how relevant this is to games.. thats a question that is unanswered yet. For me, I think cloud will help with Multiplayer games and MMO's but i personally am not convinced by the need to move things to servers to do data processing for anything but MMO's and MP.. which is already being done. Issues with internet speed, what if the data doesnt get there (the machine has to do something in response). There are still too many unanswered questions.

As for the Drivertar stuff... ah... there is a question if all this data is actually useful to begin with. Is it better to program a better AI locally, than to take 1 million (random number pick sorry) and then generate an AI. What if most of the data is useless (people can be crap players). It could be better to just collate the data from say the top 100 users, and I don't think you would have needed a datacenter of this magnatude to do it.

Still its all fascinating stuff.

Don't know if any of that makes sense, its really late and i should sleep :)