Machiavellian said:
FlamingWeazel said:
Adinnieken said:
FlamingWeazel said:
Machiavellian said:
FlamingWeazel said:
Machiavellian said:
FlamingWeazel said:
That's mininmal nothing is stopping anyone company from doing that anytime. In fact it's been done, if thats the power of the cloud MS is talking about then Ok I guess.
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You are correct, nothing is stopping any company from having their own server running all the time gather info and pushing out content. The fact that MS give developers this resource for free is the key. Its something developers can rely on as a resouce they can use that they do not have to pay for. They can also rely on the other services that MS cloud platform delivers without them having to manage that server as well. For big companies not that big of a deal but still good, for smaller devs, its a big deal because margins can be small so having it free is a big incentive to use it.
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Nop devs won;t and cannot use it........it is not worth it and it would fracture the user base, what happens when you play offline?? The cloud is the myth lol.
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Why would it facture the user base. If you are on the X1 and connected it just works, if not then your game plays without it. Also for games that are MP only like Titanfall and a few others that are coming out, this is not a problem. Probably the first wave of games will be first party or exclusives as they can target all aspect of the console including cloud compute.
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So your graphics and AI degrade when you disconnect???? LMAO not happening.
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You do realize that every PC game has variable graphic fidelity based on the local GPU features. Your supposition is baseless and ignorant.
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Consoles are not PC's, and thats hardware based not cloud..Again it is not happening. Also, anyone can sue server cloud infrastructure to improve games not just MS. MS is the only one touting it because they got caught with a weaker console.
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Actually everyone cannot just use server technology to improve their game. The reason developers do not do it today was and still is cost. MS has taken the cost part of the equation out for developers creating games for the X1. Also cloud compute needs the infrastructure and platform for support. This is where Orleans which is the cloud compute infrastructure and development API MS created comes into play. MS spent 3 years developing Orleans so no its not something they thought up because they have a weaker platform. The problem with your argument is that it comes from a stance of very limited information.
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I am fully aware of MS Azure cloud...cloud is everywhere and sony and many corporatins are already using cloud tech, please this is not even close to a MS only tech. MS invented the cloud now? Please, by the time cloud is more prevalent it will be everywhere. it is already here in many flavors.
