| Lortsamler said: I agree with all of this. That's why i am question this claim from Microsoft. |
Ah, don't get me wrong. I thought you were asking how it worked. The original MS claim at Xbone reveal that the Cloud will give the Xbone 3 times more power is pure bullcrap indeed. The Cloud can give even thousands of times more power in batch jobs (like in the decryption example), but on real time? Not a chance. The Internet latency kills it all. It's even paradoxical. More (total) computing power would also mean an higher frame rate. But higher the frame rate smaller is the time window to produce a frame. Smaller that time higher are the chances for the client to skip the remotely computed data. And the internet latency has a die hard constraint: the speed of light. The packets can't travel a geographical distance faster than that (1ms every 150Km/100 miles round trip). And we know how in real life the Internet is quite slower.
