| vivster said:
Why would MS regret it? They're the ones using it as a marketing tool and considering your level of hype, they succeeded thoroughly. You really need to read up on this. There is really not as much to it as you might think. It's just offloading tasks to somewhere else and with that extending its power. The concept is limited in itself and by other technologies such as the internet. It's what's used on the internet all the time. The concept isn't new, only its application to games. An example for evolving technology: Mail delivery. It started with just delivering small letters via foot or horse. It evolved into a world wide net of carriers that are able to deliver huge packages in the shortest amount of time. That is the capacity of the technology that evelved quite greatly. However it is still limited by design. A delivery won't make the package prettier or more valuable and a delivery also can't compete if what you want to have delivered is already produced in your own house. Never. No matter how much it evolves. |
And with your example you are perfectly describing what I see in cloud computing for games: the capacity of what developers can do grows and the power of the console expanding. My focus is developers making bigger world, and having more freedom to do things in games, not necessarily making games prettier. I wouldn´t rule out that they will find ways to make games look better aswell, but that´s not my primary interest in it.
You need to have a more open mind and see possibilities instead of restrictions. It all becomes funnier then :).
