Oh, they are going to show something at e3. It is just that they will be using an internet connection most people won't have for 20 years.

So if Nintendo is researching the same as MS will that make it more legit?

From Neogaf

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=568133

"Originally Posted by Alexandre Delattre, CTO, Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD):
The developers at Nintendo headquarters need to spend their time developing the actual platform, so I think we’d like to explore areas that they don’t have time for. For example the possibilities which are opened up by the combination of cloud technologies and new software paradigms like general purpose GPU programming.

It should be noted that while the statement seems rather vague, NERD has indeed hired, and is still hiring, researchers in the field of cloud technology, heterogenous computing, and GPGPU development. Doesn't mean we'll see some results any time soon if ever, but I don't think Nintendo would publish this piece if they didn't believe they were on the right track. Especially considering this Iwata Asks seems to be mostly aimed at potential future NERD employees.

So this apparently isn't about trivial cloud applications like storing save games and profiles on a server or something, it's seemingly about stuffing some servers with a couple of Nvidia Titans or Intel Knights Corner accelerators and using those things to provide additional computational performance over the internet. And there might actually be a practical application for something like this in gaming (same thing is true for Microsoft of course)"

Took the info from french site Gamekyo

http://www.gamekyo.com/group_article26596.html

With all these things I can only keep an open mind about this cloud computing thing. I don't know much but I'll wait and see.

That's one opinion.

I'm actually thinking there won't be any type of demonstration at all. In fact, I'll bet on it.

AAAAANNNYYY TAAAKKEERS!?

theres a reason sony purchase gaikai streaming games was one. they're probably looking into this themselves. i still say if sony said were going to harness the power of the clouds to boost gameplay the sony crowd would be happy for it. then they'd say our clouds will be better than ms clouds.  most of the negativity has more to do with microsoft than what may or not be possible

They also said that background AI is not all that useful, as in not all that noticeable to the user. Radiant AI experiments with Oblivion didn't amount to much. The AI might do all sorts of clever things on the other side of the world, but what's the point if you'll never know about it.

I guess the best use of it is a dynamic growing world. Although not too dynamic since sending altering geometery over will quickly exhaust the bandwidth. Initially I was thinking it would be cool for a From dust style skyrim world, or Motorstorm with actual persistant terrain deformation mud physics, or Forza 5 with rain pooling and fluid physics. All too much data, especially with next gen's mesh sizes.

Can you animate large crowds on the server, dead rising, dynasty warriors style. Just to animate 2000 npc's at 30 fps you already need 7.3 mbps if you can compress the data down to a mere 16 bytes per npc.

So what can you do. Update the lighting of a race track (static environment) for a specific time of day. Is that really such hard work, GT5 can do it real time. Downloading the updated track, pre-calculated shadows and all, probably takes longer then preparing it locally. All next gen engines are going for dynamic global illumination. Moving objects affecting the lighting, smoke, swirling fog, trees swaying, clouds casting shadows, dynamic fire, dynamic lights, we're finally leaving pre-baked light maps behind.

What's left. Procedural level generation. Track editors where the server can render a highly detailed custom track. It might take a while to download the result but the server can have access to vast amounts of constantly updated data to create unique content. Certainly cool but not boosting the local rendering power.

Anyway I'm very curious what/if they show anything using cloud processing at E3.

Times like this i wished there was a like button.

Even if you have the bandwidth, countries like Canada have Download/Upload per month GB allowance caps. It's criminal I tell ya!

@Fifaguy. I'm from Canada. I live in a small-ish city of about 260,000, and none of the 3 local isp's have any kind of hard bandwidth cap.

And I live in a similar kind of city here and the monthly bandwidth cap is at 100GB-ish. 

Which is ridiculous, considering the nature of internet these days (for example, Netflix subscription).

@Hynad. Yes, I didn't post that correctly. I'm saying none of the isp's in my city have a "Download/Upload per month GB allowance cap" I could easily get by with 100gb per month, for now at least. I doubt my average usage would be more than 50gb per month. That's a bit of a guess though.