Gaming is only one possible way for the cloud and we still don't know how good this will perform. Especially given that Gaikai only has one other company in competition "worlds largest cloud-gaming-service" is not really a strong information.

Please, tell me where I said that... No? Ok. For me, it was just showing that established countries like the U.S, Japan, (which I actually made a joke of how little the impact will have there with the Xbox) and Australia have these in place even before the gen starts. How many others are on the way? I'm sure many/all non-Australians knew nothing about the NBN. What about other countries?

Not to mention the US is the biggest gaming market in the world.... Really, what was your point? Did you even have one?

Depends on the server of course and especially what it is for. imagine 10 million ps4-users who want to stream ps3-games... The tech will use cell and I don't see any option on how to scale the cell - until proven otherwise I have to assume they need a ps3 for every ps4-user who wants to a ps3-game.

But even if they are rolling out these fiber what will be the adoption rate.. if adoption rate is slow then price will be high, so thats y i m saying we are atleast 6 to 7 years away from having that kind of infrastructure. and not to mention the least burdent of all Cloud saving is just getting started! the comes cloud game streaming, then Cloud processing.

Will make absolutely ZERO difference. The law of physics comes into play, that latency will always be a problem for Australians accessing content overseas  regardless of the technology being used, unless they start actually hosting the content locally.

Granted you will not have the interleaving that your ADSL line has, so you might gain about 10-20ms~ improvement tops.

With that said as things currently stand, Cloud gaming is a gamers worst nightmare in Australia.

Terminals, they were called Terminals you silly man :P

I was too young to remember and/or distracted by video games girls.

Only 40x...? I thought using cloud streaming will be unlimited since its not using the hardware spec itself...

I tried to quote the cost for a 1Gbps internet in my country to support the could computing but they don't have that option here... the max is 100 Mbps for consumers.

In any case if the MS servers are in US the ping will be bad for here... we already have trouble with some MMO serves outside our country.

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they just did it like ms and used the name of their first console.