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Soleron on 06 June 2013
Slimebeast said:
Soleron said:

Some possible problems with MS's cloud offloading. The announcement that Respawn chose MS over Sony for Titanfall due to this is the reason I'm writing; it seems devs are serious about doing this.

Do you actually believe that?

I don't believe in it one bit. It's just typical PR BS and blatant lies. Just look at their other claim, "we wanted to focus on one platform because we're a small studio". I don't buy that when even indie developers release on multiple platforms and when next gen hardware is supposedly the easiest to develop for with both PS4 and Xbone being very similar.

The game is being ported to X360. Will it have different features because the X360 can't connect to the cloud? No it won't. In the end you will see it won't. Well yes, perhaps one minor feature is going to be missing on X360 so that they can claim the Xbone version took advantage of the cloud and couldn't be made on anything else than the Xbone.

A much more honest PR would have been to say that "MS made us an offer we just couldn't refuse".

No, of course I don't take it at face value.

There's so many problems with this cloud idea that it can't possibly be core to a game and so can't be a sole reason for exclusivity.

It seems like Sony will have the same features, they just shout about them less.