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kitler53 on 09 July 2014
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pbroy said:
kitler53 said:

i can accept that online multiplayer requires an internet connection,.. there is an obvious reason for the need for an online connection and an obvious benefit in certain types of gameplay.

if ms wants to do cloud processing they better be able to communicate a clear reason and obvious benefit.


and lol and those trying to link psnow steaming as an additional method to purchasing games to the idea of cloud processing being integrated into a game's single player mode making an internet connection the only option. if you can see such a massively, significant difference between the destiny dlc vs the dozens of other platform exclusive content coming in the next year surely you can see the difference here...


You should be laughing at the OP. The Cloud and its resources need to have internet access to work. M$es Cloud processing and Sony's Cloud both need internet and DRM to work. Hence why PS Now comes into the subject. If I want to use PS Now Cloud, I need to be connected through DRM. If I want to play an Xbone game with Cloud support, I need to be connected through DRM to work. 


psnow has a clear reason for requiring the internet, the game is running on sony's hardware and streamed to the consumer.   psnow has a clear benefit, the game can be played immediatly without waiting for a lengthy digital download to complete and the game can be played even without buying playstation hardware.

ms's cloud processing, i'm just going to say the same to you that i will to phaedruss,...  i'll believe the benefit when i see it.  the reason is clear but the benefit not so much.   explaining an improvement in graphics is going to be almost impossible to explain to a consumer.  playing a game without hardware is a very tangible benefit for psnow.  extra special destruction is going to be extraordinarily hard to explain.  it's going to be even harder to explain if cloud processing only closes the graphics gap between xbone and ps4,.. it literally needs to blow ps4 games out of the water or consumers will just view as xbox specific drm.  as you saw with the xbox reveal,.. the way in which something is explain to the consumer is very important.   if you have to teach the benefit to your consumer than the benefit isn't "real"