I agree that Toastboy post was out there and full of wholes.  MS has not demostrated cloud compute and how it will change games on the X1.  I know they have built the platform to do it and I believe Halo 5 will be the game that show it but for right now its not there.  The only problem I have is when people dismiss the tech without really understanding it.  

I am fully aware of MS Azure cloud...cloud is everywhere and sony and many corporatins are already using cloud tech, please this is not even close to a MS only tech. MS invented the cloud now? Please, by the time cloud is more prevalent it will be everywhere. it is already here in many flavors.

From a hardware perspective, I think the fact that Microsoft made the infrastructure investment is possibly the more important factor.  Having data centers across the US and around the world greatly improves their ability to provide fast, reliable service to customers.  If one data center is impacted, they have another data center that can not only take-up additional traffic, but keep their services running.

Right now, Sony doesn't have that.  They have one data center in California where all their traffic is funnelled into.  That creates a bandwidth headache, as well as a serious congestion point for traffic. 

They dont use the cloud like titanfall will. Forza does use it to make some sort of AI i believe. It seems like titanfall will use the cloud alot more than just AI. 

Poor logic is poor logic.  Consoles are computers.  Gaming developers provide the ability for gamers to adjust game fidelity because the wide range of GPUs availiable would make it difficult to dynamically account for each possibility.  Your branching logic would be huge.  With a console it's a check to see if there is a connection.  If so, then use the cloud.  If not, don't.  The fidelity of the game visualization adjusts based on connectivity.  You could, in theory, adjust game fidelity based on bandwidth and latency as well, but then we get into a more complex logic branch.  If anything, such logic to account for bandwidth and latency would be something Microsoft would develope so there's zero cost to developers.

I never said no one else could.  In fact, I'm the one saying cloud processing is a part of the future and both the PS4 and the Xbox One are designed to take advantage of it.  The difference is, and this is a difference Sony has admitted in their quarterly financials last year, is that Microsoft has a bigger cloud infrastructure. 

That's actually why Microsoft is touting the cloud.  Not because of a "weaker" console, but because they've made the investment in the infrastructure that developers can utilize.  Microsoft has data centers around the world, and multiple data centers in to spread the load.  Sony, by contrast has one data center in the US.  In engineering lingo, it's called a single point of failure.

Cloud processing is where things are going.  You'll start seeing it used more and more often.  It may be that you see it used more for smartphone and tablet applications at first, but it will be the future of things.  As I have stated elsewhere, we are coming up to a cliff in hardware technology and we won't be able to push boundries of Moore's Law.  the theoretical designs for atom width circuits have been designed, the materials that could be used to create them are being worked with.  Once we rearch that plataeu of atomic circuits, the shrinking of circuitry will slow to a snails pace until it comes to an end when the space between traces and transisters is so densely packed that they can't get any smaller.  And that my friend is a cliff we are quickly coming to.

Once that happens, electronics and integrated circuits won't be able get smaller and more powerful every generation.  Instead, in order to become more powerful, integrated circuits will need to get bigger and bigger.  We'll reach that cliff sometime around 2020 or 2025.  So Mr. Smartypants, where do you get more computing power if you can't fit it into the device?  I fear for your answer and I assume you'll be argumentative regardless.  The answer is, you have to use cloud-based computing in order to offset the limited capabilities of the physical device.  Those technology companies, including Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Microsoft (as an example) are embracing as well as pushing the technology forward because those companies understand the problem we are facing well ahead of us. 

You might not. 

For real, you believe cloud computing can improve graphics?????? how naive.... :/

It's logical that it can.

It's logical that if you off-load some aspects of the rendering that you free up local resources.  Therefore, you can use those free resources to do more.

So, yes, of course I believe cloud computing can improve graphics.  It isn't naive.  The technology has been demonstrated.  In fact, I just got done with a White House presentation regarding where technology is going and just take a guess what was one of the topics being discussed? 

What you think is possible doesn't matter.  What is possible has already been demonstrated and it'll be a reality.  You can dismiss it all you want, doesn't matter.  People dismissed the automobile when they came out.  People dismissed front-wheel drive when it came out.  Aluminum engines.  Safety glass.  Seat belts.  Smartphones.  The list goes on and on.  

Your ability to see beyond your own nose doesn't mean shit.  It's your own limitation.  The reality is that in the near future, cloud-based computing will off-load computing needs from the local machine to a remote machine allowing the local machine to do more with less processing power.

It won't matter that you have to always be connected, because always being connected is becoming a natural thing.  If you own a smartphone you're always connected.  It's a natural part of owning a smartphone.  You're already becoming acclimated to the idea of being always connected, you just don't realize it.