sasquatchmontana said:
Then they'll only sit on the way side, while other games that do use it pass them by. If MS wants to give this level of destruction to Battlefield and EA as a marketing move, that's not going to make CoD look very good.
The physics don't have to transfer at the same framerate. Crackdown 3 runs at 30fps, the physics update at 12fps.
And yet even if the XBOX 3 had 14x the CPU power of the XBOne, it would only offer the same level of physics as CD does.
Sunken costs. Redundant for crackdown anyways since its a MS published game. Even so MS already moved live over to the 300,000 servers a couple of years ago. 300k out of 14 million is nothing (especially since the latter number will grow over the rest of this generation) it's 2% of their server capacity. So, why did we build Xbox Live Compute? When we were planning the next generation of Xbox Live, we spent a lot of time talking with game creators about ways to make games better. We realized that there was an incredible opportunity to bring together the resources and global scale of Windows Azure, with the game services of Xbox Live to build a cloud computing platform that was uniquely focused on gaming and game creators. Our intent was to enable developers to take advantage of server resources in their games without having to deal with the challenges that come with building, managing and running servers at scale. So, we chose to provide cloud features that allow the game creators to push the limits of their gameplay experiences and apply the bulk of their investments to game creation, rather than server and operational resources. In fact, we even give them the cloud computing power for FREE so they can more easily transition to building games on Xbox One for the cloud.
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There seems to be some confusion in some of the articles describing Crackdown 3. If you have a online game where multiple players interact in the same virtual world then clearly servers will be maintaining that virtual world and doing many calculations which multiple computers will retrieve as data for how the world is rendered on their console or computer. This will be the same for many online games be it pc, ps4 or xbone.
Then there is the view that somehow that servers can be used for part of the console's normal processing so graphics are improved and and frame rates increased.
I think Microsoft is trying to present cloud computing as something unique to them and somehow they are achieving more with it when in fact its just normal server processes which they are trying to sell as remote computing that assists the xbox one in a different and more advanced way than pc or ps4. Lets just wait and see how Crackdown 3 turns out and what has been achieved with it. I strongly suspect the xbone will continue to have 900p graphics and inconsistent frame rates as always. Perhaps even less consistent frame rates if they have actually moved processes to servers which would normally be done by local computing considering the current performance of internet connections.
If they really wanted to improve xbone performance by using remote computing they should have worked out a way of utilising home pc's doing some of the processing for games. I'm sure there are many pc's and laptops close to the xbox one that could be utilised. I'd think it quite clever if my windows tablet and laptop suddenly started working with the xbox one to make 1080p 60fps games possible.
