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Machiavellian on 03 October 2015
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sasquatchmontana said:
Zekkyou said:
sasquatchmontana said:

Another massive first party acquisition. Looks like Xbox 1 multiplats will have vastly superior animation, destruction, cloth and water physics.

AMD's on lock now.

I think it's pretty unlikely that MS are going to be locking out anyone in the console space from using Havoc. As others have mentioned, these companies don't live in isolated bubbles. Even when they're competing against each other, they're still more than happy to work together if it will make them money (which Havoc will).

Well i'm not suggesting MS will prevent other developers from using vanilla Havoc, I am however suggesting Xbox One (and possibly W10) will have an extra Havoc option of offloading to the cloud. Now they're in the middleware, own the middleware, they can change the middleware and make it a default option. There's little reason why Call of Duty could not go full CRACKDOWN 3 and offer a NEW MARKETABLE DESTRUCTION MODE when it's a mouseclick away....and that suits MS because it makes XB1 CoD look better and furthers mmmmm PENETRATION of their Cloud endeavours.

Naw I doubt that MS will have some special option to offload to the cloud just for their games.  Instead, MS will offer the ability to offload to the cloud to every developer that wants to use it.  Of course the cloud will be Azure and it will be another piece in their puzzle to get every developer using their cloud services.  

I actually would say that you are not thinking this through very well and and not looking at the total picture or how this integrates with what MS does as a software company.  MS is a tools and service company which is the position their new leader has stated and is positioning MS for the future.  For MS as a company its way better to get everyone on their tools and services then making Halo look better than COD.