Any console with a fast broadband connection can be powered by the cloud. The ouya could play amazing top pc spec games by simply sending its controller signals to a remote pc and receiving back the graphics and sound processed by the remote computer. Such power costs money though and the more processing is done remotely the more you will have to pay to play the game.
At £425!!!! I would expect the xbox one to deliver a pretty amazing game experience without having to rely on remote processing.
The whole Xbox one approach is highly irritating. They compromise the design by using cheap components and yet charge a huge price for it and the shortfall in processing again will have to be paid for by end consumers with remote processing being important to games. As a game enthusiast what happens when the xbox one is no longer supported and there is no remote processing does that mean all those games are now unavailable.
The cloud has serious implications with how end users have access to the content they have paid for.
I don't want game experiences ruined by my broadband connection being too slow.
Personally I doubt I would ever buy a game that was cloud powered. I have never subscribed to Xbox live for my 360 or original xbox and I won't be for xbox one so to be honest if games become available that rely on xbox live I won't be able to buy the console anyway. With most multiformat games being better on ps4 and the xbox one like the wii u only really worth buying for exclusives I can't justify a xbox one purchase at anywhere near the current price.
