I fail to see the hyping of cloud computing beyond people drinking buzzword kool-aid

[wick]

DirtyP2002 said:

wick said:
Cloud shmoud.

Why would Microsoft be so unwilling to "split" their user base with Kinect, yet they are willing to slit it with "teh cloud"?

Seeing as it's no longer required to have your XB1 connected to the net to function, will developers want to risk relying on "teh cloud " for on the fly calculations when a good portion of the user base won't be using it?

Every Xbox One CAN be connected to the internet.
A Xbox One that comes without Kinect can't use it until you pay $150 for the hardware device.

So the barrier to buy and play Kinect games would be much bigger than connecting the console to the internet.

Games like Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2 are pretty much online only and they did really well on the Xbox 360.
Titanfall will do pretty well and it is online only as well. Are you worried that somehow people won't connect their next gen system to the internet any longer?

The Cloud will be a very important feature next gen. You have to be in denial not to see this.

 

But hey, maybe IBM, Google, Apple, Amazon and MS are all wrong and the cloud is a fad. They invested BILLIONS of USD for a reason.

Connecting your console to the internet, and requiring internet for single player games are 2 completely different things.

Don't try and twist my words.