| theprof00 said: You are making things way too personal. I am being objective, it has nothing to do with what i like or dislike. Your analogy didnt work because exaclty like I said, the competition can already do things like that. Look, server based compute has been around for a very long time. It's not new. The level to which they are pushing it, however, is whats novel. And others will follow that lead. Even Sony, or another studio, can simply rent azure space for their game. If a company made a game exclusively, then yes, they would probably get those tools for free, but then they have to leverage that cost versus potential lost sales of being multiplat (where in this case is choosing to miss out on 65%) Sony has cut 5 studios but has also brought in more new games and ips than anyone else. Look. It's not unrelated causes or events. Your chicken and end of world scenario is beyond hyperbole. These are very much related. I believe that MS would rather put out a 500$ PC that can stream to your tv and mobile and everything else interconnectedly. That is the real all in one solution, and I think that's where they're headed. |
Sorry if I come off as personal, no real reason but then again text and conotations can get mixed results.
I still have to say that this purchase is no more or less MS pulling out of the industry then simply them shoring up their already stated design for the gaming platform. As a company who creates tools and services, it makes perfect sense for them to purchase a company like Havok if one of their main goals is to make their DX12 API and Azure a platform for Cloud based processing for games. From tabets, Phones, Console and PC MS can leverage integrating Havok into any game made on any of those platforms and thus improve their position on all fronts.. Your statment makes it appear that MS has only the X1 console instead of a wide range of platforms that support games and would all probably use Cloud compute in some form or fashion within their eco.
I actually believe that MS is positioning content to just about every device that has an internet connection. The PC as being the only place that you can receive high end games is actually fading away more than console based gaming. Instead, the company that can deliver high end gaming on all the different platforms will be the company that see big growth in the future. Something like PSNow or Nvidia GeForce Now are a step in the right direction but I believe MS is looking for a complete solution that involves Cloud compute with moderate hardware or more specialize hardware that will give you the best of both worlds.
Either way it will be interesting to see where all this land in about 5 years as I believe that will be the timeframe when this stuff starts to get fleshed out.
