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M.U.G.E.N on 03 July 2012
sales2099 said:
babuks said:
If my English understanding is right, then 'catching up' means one already have done something and the other is following him in the same path to 'catch him'. Sony now owns Gaikai, what does Microsoft has? Who is playing catch up in reality?

MS allready has the infrastructure. They just didnt reveal anything to us. Time isnt right yet. 

Sony had to blow 380 million just to be on the same level as MS. Thing is Sony shouldnt be spending right now either. 


They spent money with their cash reserves and they have been investing a lot recently and all investments are considered to be good investments going into the future.

TO play catch up there should be something for sony to catch up to..there really isn't anything other than this PR. That's not playing catch up at all. Unless you have some form of info on the matter that is. Gaikai and Onlive are already operational businesses/tech. The one that is still not operational is the one playing catch up by definition. Guess who that is



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sales2099 on 03 July 2012
M.U.G.E.N said:
sales2099 said:
babuks said:
If my English understanding is right, then 'catching up' means one already have done something and the other is following him in the same path to 'catch him'. Sony now owns Gaikai, what does Microsoft has? Who is playing catch up in reality?

MS allready has the infrastructure. They just didnt reveal anything to us. Time isnt right yet. 

Sony had to blow 380 million just to be on the same level as MS. Thing is Sony shouldnt be spending right now either. 


They spent money with their cash reserves and they have been investing a lot recently and all investments are considered to be good investments going into the future.

TO play catch up there should be something for sony to catch up to..there really isn't anything other than this PR. That's not playing catch up at all. Unless you have some form of info on the matter that is. Gaikai and Onlive are already operational businesses/tech. The one that is still not operational is the one playing catch up by definition. Guess who that is

Sony should be building their reserves about now....but I digress. 

A corporation doesnt have to reveal its plans just because we want to. We aren't even investors and even they get left in the dark until the corporation sees fit to announce something. If you think MS has nothing in the cloud department you got another thing coming...and they didnt blow 380 much needed millions to get it. 



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Ajescent on 03 July 2012

Sony gets accused of copying all the time when they do something but announce it later, how come MS gets a freebie?



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thranx on 03 July 2012

Microsoft has been investing heavily in cloud technology over the years. As far as I know they hold many patents for various cloud technology already. They make cloud services for other companies/institutions/governments. So that is why sony is catching up. MS has the infrastructure and patents and know how already. Although they do not use it for streaming games yet, they seem to have everything else in place.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/products/other/Pages/cloud_services.aspx#fbid=RmUFmYMMRj8



thranx on 03 July 2012
Ajescent said:
Sony gets accused of copying all the time when they do something but don't announce it, how come MS gets a freebie?


I dont see sony being accused of copying here. Just that MS is farther ahead in the cloud service area. Which seeing as they can set up cloud services for other people seems to be true.



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Sal.Paradise on 03 July 2012

Only thing that Sony need catching up to is the damage control PR.

"We totally got them clouds too son!"



Ajescent on 03 July 2012
thranx said:
Ajescent said:
Sony gets accused of copying all the time when they do something but don't announce it, how come MS gets a freebie?


I dont see sony being accused of copying here. Just that MS is farther ahead in the cloud service area. Which seeing as they can set up cloud services for other people seems to be true.


I was in honesty thinking about MOVE and Wii-Mote



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thranx on 03 July 2012
Ajescent said:
thranx said:
Ajescent said:
Sony gets accused of copying all the time when they do something but don't announce it, how come MS gets a freebie?


I dont see sony being accused of copying here. Just that MS is farther ahead in the cloud service area. Which seeing as they can set up cloud services for other people seems to be true.


I was in honesty thinking about MOVE and Wii-Mote


oh. well this is a thread about cloud service. Not those



Millenium on 03 July 2012

Small bit of truth here, Microsoft does already have a Cloud setup off sorts with Azure (Which has been announced this morning as the solution for Samsung Smart TV's).



Ajescent on 03 July 2012
thranx said:
Ajescent said:
thranx said:
Ajescent said:
Sony gets accused of copying all the time when they do something but don't announce it, how come MS gets a freebie?


I dont see sony being accused of copying here. Just that MS is farther ahead in the cloud service area. Which seeing as they can set up cloud services for other people seems to be true.


I was in honesty thinking about MOVE and Wii-Mote


oh. well this is a thread about cloud service. Not those

No kidding.



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