Cloud Powered Gaming on Xbox One

[Zappykins]

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.

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. 

Well, to be fair Microsoft does have much bigger resources in this matter than just about anyone.  It's actually just a lose term to cover things going through the internet.   

I agree 'the cloud' a bit of an overused term right now.  But what would you rather call it? Net Power?  Virtual Source? Skynet? GameNet?  'The Network' 'Plugged into Redmond?'

I kinda like 'The Matrix' as in 'You Xbox is now plugged into the Matrix."  But there are some creepy connotations too.