By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Machiavellian on 01 October 2013
Edit Thread
iamdeath said:
kowenicki said:
Subie_Greg said:
iamdeath said:
Subie_Greg said:
 

How exactly do we know this?

Some of you guys think Microsoft is god-like or something. 

You have no proof to support the very idea that Microsoft (by default mind you) is more capable of this service then Sony or anyone else. None

But lets be honest. You have No information about Sony's or Microsoft's service

According to some MS is god, they have money so they can do what they please and bend the market to their will lol. MS ownes the internet apparently.

And invent the cloud too. And their cloud... so much more then anyone elses. In fact, all other clouds may as well kill themselves right now. And Titan fall!!!

Don't forget that lol


Nice considered contribution.

did you do that research yet?

That's irrelevant on a forum about gaming. How much of that cloud is for xbox? Not much, considering no devs will utlize it for split their own userbase.

 

How do you make a game using cloud knowing some of your users won't be taking advanatge of it? Will a games AI and graphics degrade for those users?

 

MS cloud is for their bigger business, not xbox. MS and their 300 K servers is marketing PR and nonsense.

 

Xbox is a tiny piece of MS,. they won't be using all of that investment on something they have never even profited on.

@Bolded: At least 300,000 servers which is the number they stated.  

@2nd Bolded:  Pure opinion.  First we need to define what a cloud service is because making such a statement means you do not understand the basic principles.  First the Cloud is a combination of many different services.  These services are there weather someone use them or not and capacity is the cloud ability to handle load.  Azure is MS cloud platform that supports many different cloud services.  Saas, Iaas and Paas.  Azure already runs a lot of XBL and MS has been moving most if not all of the services over to Azure for the X1.

What does this mean.  This means that the X1 runs on the same platform as all of MS other business.  It can leverage as much or as little of the complete cloud platform MS has at this time.  Do you know how Azure works, it spins up and down resources depending on what the customer has purchased.  So when MS says they are providing 300.000 servers for XBl for the X1, they mean they have reserved within their Azure infrastructure 300,000 server resources.  Its not marketing spin, its how the system works.  MS just spent 700 million on a new datacenter for capacity to support XBL and Office 365.

@3rd Bolded:  This statement shows you do not know how MS cloud or Azure works. MS can add capacity at a drop of a hat.  They can ship whole datacenters to a location in hours.  Azure can add or remove resources, reserve resources and dynamically re purpose resources at a drop of a pin.  MS does not have to use all of their resources just for XBL, the software they use allows Azure to do all the work.  This is the flaw in your argument.  MS is using what they already have because the  system can easily handle the load from XBL and MS is leveraging their investment which total in the billions to include XBL with the Azure platform.