Miyamoto: Nintendo Waiting to Reveal NX Because of "Idea"

[archbrix]

DonFerrari said:

archbrix said:

As far as I know, Microsoft was still going for traditional cloud tech relying on a massive server farm where the loss of electricity over distance is a crippling factor.  With Nintendo's SCD, it's like breaking the server farm up and spreading it out to where people with poor connections can link up to others with better connections.  So it's a different way of going about cloud processing.  Whether or not Nintendo can pull it off remains to be seen.

If your internet connection is still limited, how would this even help?

The NX or SCD can daisy-chain to other NXs or SCDs locally, peer to peer, to take advantage of others with good connections, or perhaps even use a limited connection to gain access to a better one.  This is what makes their idea in the patent so interesting.  This video explains it better than I can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4e2otLh8jw