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Machiavellian on 21 January 2014
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fps_d0minat0r said:
Machiavellian said:
fps_d0minat0r said:

the cell was responsible for the games that brought PS3 back into the race.
Its power was proven over and over again. The cloud is yet to be proven once, and its a technology that Sony or nintendo could replicate for their systems even if it does deliver as MS claim.


You probably use the cloud every day and do not know it.  The cloud and cloud processing is already proven.  Cloud processing within a game is not.  People need to understand that there are many different cloud services and cloud processing is just one of them.  MS is bringing all of their cloud services to the X1 including their other existing platforms.

People keep saying Sony and Nintendo can just replicate MS cloud servicess, but its not that simple. There is a huge cost associated with bringing such services to a platform. It's like people saying MS can just replicate Playstation Now because they already have a cloud based solution in Azure.  Building the infrastructure for any of those services cost millions and doing it right takes experience.

You cant really assume its hard to replicate or that it costs millions if we havent seen how it performs.

For all we know, MS could have hooked up 10 PC's to process tiny AI files that hardly make a difference just to be legally allowed to market it like this.

Titanfall will be a make or break moment for all this hype.

I bet when it comes out and people ask about the AI then the responses will be using the 'oh its fun, thats all that matters' argument.

I am not assuming anything.  This is what I do.  I write software that interact with cloud based services.  The company I work for created a cloud based infrastucture to run our software for businesses so I know how much it cost to support such a platform.  

If people had even a little understand of the Azure cloud based platform and the money that MS has spent to make that a competitor in that space, you would not be using your analogy of MS hooking up 10 pcs to do anything.

Titanfall does not really use the cloud above dedicated servers so its not a true test of what MS is promissing. Its just one component of a much larger service.