| Machiavellian said: Gaikai and even online has been on the market and have not set the world on fire, why people believe that Playstation now will do the same when the same issues that have held back Onlive and Gaikai still exist. Its good tech but until it goes from beta to live, speculation how good the service will be is no better than speculation on how good cloudl compute will be. Also believe this will take years or decade to bring to market really seem like people have a very limited view of the tech. I do not see this happening this year but I would definitely say next year you will see more developres use the cloud compute because MS has already built the infrastructure. |
Except no one is expecting that Gaikai will set the world on fire. Players welcomed this feature as a nice addition, that's all. And that's how i am expecting this to work. Stop comparing this to the MS computing cloud. They have different purposes, different requirements and different services.
It will takes years or decades, because we do not speak only about MS infrastructure. We talk about infrastructure in user's homes. You either deliver same quality to your every single customer or you just want to deliver it to some precent of players with decent, uninterrupted and flawlessly working internet connection.
And from the MS side, it's not only matter of infrastructure. It's the matter of sotware, API, it's the matter of developers learning how to use it, developers preparing new game engines (if it is worth it) and more of that - WILLING to use some niche tech just to deliver more experience to the promile of players. And these are things i can imagine, i bet, there are more. It takes years to develop a game, yet you try to persuade us, it will take few months to deliver completely new approach to new games. That's a wishfull thinking. I can bet it won't happen anytime soon in this decade for xbox one (aside of demos), anytime.
