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Machiavellian on 03 October 2013
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Osc89 said:
Puppyroach said:
Osc89 said:
Puppyroach said:
I have a feeling this streaming service will be leagues ahead of Gakai, since MS are behind it. It will probably be like the situation of XBLA vs. PSN at the beginning of this generation, if not a bigger leap. And yes, I am a big MS supporter, but their experience in this area is second-to-none.


A rumoured service, again rumoured for 2015 from MS, is a big leap ahead of a demonstrated service confirmed for launch in 2014 from Sony? Seems pretty unlikely.


The thing is you forget MS has a much longer history than what we hear now. They have servers in every corner of the world and are first and foremost a software company with lots of competence in that area.


Gaikai has the world record for the world's most widespread cloud gaming network, so they have the coverage. The analysis by DF found that the quality beat out OnLive, and the latency was able to equal a 360 game. This was over a year ago. I get that you are an MS supporter, but is all this really beaten by rumour?

Isn't it kind of easy to get a record when there is only 2 players in the race.  I am not sure if Gaikai beat Onlive since both have their strengths and weakness.  Gaikai had better image quality but ran games at 30FPS.  Online looks to run all their games at 60FPS but by doing so, the image quality was not as good as Gaikai.  It really is up to the gamer which is more important, speed or image quality.  Crysis 2 showed how a demanding game can impact controller response and latency in the signal.  

One part of the article that I have talked about that will be key to acceptance of Gaikai, especially in the US and maybe even going up against MS is how close the datacenter is to the customer.  Here is a blurb from that article that should be very interesting.

"On the other hand, Gaikai's server for supplying the UK is based in London (around 52 miles from where we tested the service) and it appears that the closeness of the server allows for levels of latency on a par, or even better than OnLive, even with the video stream being encoded at half the frame-rate."

I believe location will be the key to how well Gaikai or even MS Rio works and the quality of service both can provide.