| sethnintendo said: Did they ever implement that cloud "boost" on the XB1 or was that all bs PR? I believe they are closer to reality now. Am I only one that doesn't like the catch word cloud? They are fucking servers not some magical cloud. |
Indeed. Back in the mid-90's development was already happening for widely spread distributed computing with dynamic load balancing, what changed since then is that now server nodes cost a lot less, computing power is orders of magnitude higher, storage space even larger and communication speed grew too (but since ADSL brought end-users the biggest boost in speed, but not in latency, communication speed and ping for end user didn't better as much as the other factors, making all the power available not very suitable for uses that need low latency), and the availability of a far larger number of relatively cheap server nodes allows to offer a much finer granularity of service. The "cloud" is a buzzword for a thing that isn't a novelty, but a, surely noteworthy, evolution and refinement of older concepts and implementations.
