Fair enough.  But I don't think this is secret sauce once you get past some of the marketing spin.  The cloud is only as good as how much money you throw at it.  Faster servers, located on a fast trunk, etc.

And yes, even though someone might be able to offload processing because their internet connection is very good, another person would not if their connectiong was bad.  We are a way off from true computing offload, since latency would have to be low and consistenly low.  But some NPC paths, jobs, etc.  Could be potentially offloaded assuming they were not timing criticial to the match.

Im sure they are trying to think of some clever ways to use cloud computer here.  And there is nothing about this game that could not also be done on a PS4 attached to the same high quality servers.  The real wild card is how good sonys servers are compared to microsoft.

Yep, it's spin and it's acceptable to companies, now for people that don't receive paychecks it's odd... well fanboyism is odd.

Certainly we will see better use (altough server is a good use for a lot of people... but my take were on people that expected the spin to become true really fast, and tought the E3 presentations were prettier than Sony because of the cloud and now say that dedicated servers are better if from MS and that is what Cloud should be considered).

Sony probably have good servers, but probably not as spread as Azure and that is why they don't offer the same deal or why they will launch Playstation Now in phases (probably). They could rent capacity from other major servers for reduced costs to subrent or give (depending on the case) for smaller devs. But in the end Titanfal was moneyhatted (and it seems like it was by EA behind Respawn back) and I'm ok with that, just not with the garbage of some PRs of "only possible with the cloud" meaning more than dedicated servers with costs already paid.

I think Respawn was looking for funding as much as anything, so moneyhat might be a bit harsh here.  There was no guarantee that titanfall was going to be a success, so they were probably looking for as much guaranteed money as possible or a bigger cut since it was their first game, etc.

COD timed releases are a moneyhat for sure.

Then again, that's the nature of the business.  I don't blame MS, nor the publishers / devs who take the money.

Money change from hand all the time... just think it's silly (but understand the reason) to sugar coat or spin it... would be clear to everybody (and wouldn't be possible to use it to lit more torches for the war) if instead of dev saying only possible on xbox or that they didn't have enough staff (they subcontracted for x360) they said "Ms being supporting us and funding the game" them they can compliment saying how wonderfull the relationship is or that MS believes in their vision, etc... but companies will try to make everything look and sound better than reality. At least we hope the end result justify the money MS paid, the money the users will pay and the hype.

Yes, I'm almost 100% certain that Ghosts is indeed on dedis on PS4. I've never experienced a single host migration in Ghosts since release, and that would be impossible without dedis as seen from every COD since COD4. Besides this, lag is very rarely an issue and the hit detection on Ghosts is the best since MW2, if not the best.

That being said though, I think it's relatively easy to test whether the game is on dedis by looking at the connections that are being made to your router using some software that are out there. The software tells you the IPs and if it's a dedicated server, you can just track the IP to check out the website of the server provider. People did this with BO2 when Activision was test running dedis on that game prior to the release of Ghosts. I'm sure someone must have done the same checks for Ghosts, and if it was never on dedis, then it would probably have been reported by now.

Well I can finally play CoD and other shooters like Halo without lag!!!!!!!!! Finally.

Oh I agree I never felt much lag in Halo but on occasion it would be there. CoD on the other hand if you can go one session without finding a laggy match then you're probably the host.