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Machiavellian on 29 September 2013
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Cubedramirez said:
Machiavellian said:
Well, I can say its funny to you.  Context is always king.  If the game was using the cloud then you can make such statements.  Since it is not, it just look like a chain of poor jokes where it really does not apply.  Either way, somewhere down the line I am sure we will get some good examples if the cloud can improve graphica and system performance.


Why wouldn't a game use the cloud on a system designed for the awesomeness of the cloud? Somewhere down the line we'll see the "improvement" and we'll all reply with 'meh'.

The system is nothing more than a cable box that plugs into my cable box which adds access to a fanatasy football system and a Halo TV show from a company that didn't even have enough conviction to stay the course and keep the only unique features about it because of internet butt hurt regarding online confirmation and game sharing. I know I am being harsh here but the system itself is sub par without the use of the cloud which itself is a theory on what it can bring to the table and that's the single most important issue. 

Microsoft made the Chrome Book for consoles, unless you have internet access, have fun with our over priced cable box.

'meh'

One good reason is that MS stated the 300 servers would not be up until after the X1 launch.  Games that are in development for over a year that were not designed for the cloud would not change their code to support it on release.  Do you think these games started development when MS announced the X1.  

As for the what the X1 is, its many different things. Did you know that the 360 does onDemand from most of the big cable providers.  Yes, this means you never have to hook up your cable box to the X1 for your cable content because those services will also be on the X1.  The cable pass through is MS providing a way for people that already have cable which is millions to use their service without trying to upstage the cable companies.  

The cloud did not leave the X1, just the requirement for always access.  Also the term cloud means different things depending on what type of cloud service you are talking about.  This is the confusion that most people have about the term cloud.  Here are the different services that a cloud platform provides

Saas - System as a service

Paas - Platform as a service

Iaas - Infrastructure as a service.

Each service does something unique for its environment.  MS Azure supports all of those services and MS is providing those services to the X1.  I am not going to go into detail on each one as I have done this already.  You can google each one to see how they scope to the XBL platform.  Lets just say that MS has the capability to provide services like streaming your music and movies, hosting dedicated servers for all developers on X1, providing a development platform called Orleans for distributed cloud based applications (that would be your cloud base compute MS was touting about).

As for the system being subpar without the cloud, I think the jury is still deciding on that point.  I know I have not made a decision yet and will probably just wait until the dust settle before deciding on any of these consoles.  If anything I was thinking of taking that money and upgrade my PC.  Who know, maybe a steammachine is in my future depedning on how solid Valve gameplan is.