| Madword said: 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. |
You are right, price is the single most important factor for this tech... for any tech.
However you have to consider that the price for "cloudbase" processing is falling realy fast. It´s falling faster than the Moore´s Law, this days.
It´s harder and harder every day to put more transistors into a silicon dice, but there are plenty of room to build server farms, only problem then is energy price and telecom infrastructure.
