COKTOE said:
-Not really. I'm surprised you aren't aware of Crackdown 3 since you're such an active, long time member. That game was the showcase for cloud assisted processing on the XBO. It didn't do much to impress. So yes, it was all bs PR as it pertains to what they promised that game would be able do, and how much of a boost it would give to the XBO processing power. It wasn't even close. - I'm not very fond of the term either. I do use it though, since it's become such a staple of the the gaming lexicon. |
Ah so one game. At least it wasn't all PR fluff. I don't remember much about Crackdown 3 except I remember the whole project was a mess. I believe MS will be able to expand this with Azure more next generation. I think they just got ahead of themselves and thought it would have more impact this generation. So I expect more from Azure helping their game division next gen. Who knows they partnered with Sony recently maybe they will announce something with Nintendo soon? There were those rumors about xbox live on Switch which haven't been announced yet. What is obvious is Nintendo needs some damn servers and Microsoft has them. My guess would be that Nintendo would partner with MS than Amazon considering MS has more gaming knowledge and maybe implement their servers better for it. I'd rather see the big 3 (MS, Sony and Nintendo) team up server side against Amazon and Google.
