So, how have you been enjoying The Power of the Cloud ?

[Madword]

Dark_Feanor said:

Madword said:

 

As for open world games such as Fallout4 etc.. there is no way they will spend millions on a single player game that has access to these features on a console that will only sell half the number of games. i.e say fallout sells 10 million copies and 5 million is on PS4, why bother with OTT complex cloud features for the XBOX One only. Trust me when i say that they wont, not unless they are paid to do so by MS.

 

Interesting point.

However one has to understand that the "Cloud" are just Azure servers twicked to suport XOne feature. Any companie can hire any amount of dedicated servers and use them for their aplications. It´s not out of the world tech. You can run even Linux servers.

EA, Bethesda, Rockstar, all have enouth pockets to hire as many servers they wish. Hell, Sony could use Azure to suport their games.

If Sony block the use from PSN+ they could easely use Google or Amazon solutions, or build their own.

It would be very sad if the future of gaming is shorthanded for Sony´s unability to go online processing.

Yes indeed any company *could* purchase access to the cloud, but the question would be *why* you would want to for a single player game. They will not... and yes definately Sony could build their own, us MS's or use google/amazon. It's just not practical for anything other than a online experience (MMO).

I don't think online processing is ready for at least another 10 years, maybe more. So i don't think Sony is hamstringing it in any shape or form. In fact it might be a combination of streaming/processing that is the future... but not in the next 10 years... and not for gaming at the level MS was talking about (30x power or whatever it was).

It doesnt matter how many servers you have and how fast those servers go, you are always restricted by the speed of the pipe going to and from those servers. With crazy bad interenet in various locations.. it's just too much of a hassle.

I do think in the far future, gaming will become more of a service because it will cut out the piracy issues.. but for processing etc... not this gen.