Microsoft’s Phil Harrison Explains that Xbox One’s Cloud Can Actually Improve Graphics

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nightsurge said:

fatslob-:O said:
There is no way microsoft can improve rendering on the xbone with cloud unless microsoft decides to employ rendering servers to every city or town to mitigate the transfer times of each partial frames. Even if microsoft did choose to do it they would suffer losses left and right because now they have to spend more money to improve their rendering infrastructure to gain a noticeable boosts in performance plus they will only be making losses when attempting this strategy.

You missed the mark entirely. They aren't using the cloud to render... they are using it to offload processing (mostly cpu intensive stuff) to free up local resources for better graphics.

That's very possible.

I understood it that way too, that's why I'm a little bit pissed off at that "secret sauce" PR crap, it's not some black magic or secret additional component (that Penello himself definitively debunked), but "just" a simple and intelligent use of the cloud ("just" is an understatement, in engineering simplicity coupled with efficiency is GOLD, but , alas, it's not a selling argument for die-hard technophile fans. Obviously I also admire PS4 simplicity and power and AMD in general for what it was able to squeeze out of chips meant to be low-price and low-power consumption, and actually I'd prefer PS4 to depend less on the net, having an internet connection with ping and bandwidth that aren't good enough, but anyway kudos to MS for a simple and intelligent idea).