How microsoft plan to stealthily bring back Always Online

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fireburn95 said:

kowenicki said:

fireburn95 said:
umm ps now is to play ps3,2,1 games on ps4(and other stuff)

Microsofts cloud is to provide compute power to xbox one native games, which means if games require cloud even for their single player (ala sunset overdrive) then it is always online

for now...

Its the first step after all.

wise up.

 

Well ps4's lead system architect is critical of cloud for processing:

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2009150/ps4s_mark_cerny_critical_of_cloud_computing.html

 

but once they do/if they do, we will be equally critical of them.
But they're not...
And they also originally didn't intend to have an always online situation.

They also orignally didn't intend to charge for multiplayer.