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. 

the giggles.  dear god it had better be the giggles.

Paging wright.

Because cloud compute does not help with graphics, it does not free GPU ressources to render better images and will not be much good for anything interactive (unless it's very static... thus not very interactive).

Things you could pre-compute may as well be defered locally (you can renter certain parts of the image only once every 2 or 3 frames locally...) it will probably be better and much more reliable.

But more importantly, MS azure is built on x86 CPUs, not GPUs, that's not a very good use of ressources (think energy cost) to render high definition, high details graphics on those compared to a decent GPU.

Now things that are indirectly related to graphics like physics, they would be even worse, imagine having a million objects falling around a scene because of some explosion, now try to send coordinates for all of these all over your internet connection with the colision data etc. for every frames... that's even worse than rendering the whole game remotely (like gaikai does by example) because there is just way more data to move around... if there are not that many objects, well the simulation can run locally... same goes for dynamic shadows, in a decent resolution...

Could compute is great for things you can render asynchronously, then send over the often huge datasets associated with the results, for the uses people think of when they mention using it in games they forget that often generating the information on the local machine is often faster than generating it remotely then sending it back to the user... that all may change as internet connections become faster, but so will consoles...

Killzone uses raytracing for its realtime reflections:

http://gamenmotion.blogspot.ca/2013/05/lighting-of-killzone-shadow-fall-slides.html

and it runs at a decent framerate too!

Comparing all of NA to Tokyo isn't fair. I doubt all of canada has internet speeds like that. Tokyo is a huge city. I live 15 miles outside of Boston and I get 75Mbps. I could pay a little more for 200, but I don't need that. Your complaint is that not EVERYWHERE gets those speeds. That's not a NA issue, it's a regional issue, in particular, regions where it's not profitable to run newer, more expensive fiber optics. It's not free. If you live in backwoods Kentucky, your internet isn't going to be good. You may not realize this, but we live in a system called capitalism. If there was profit in giving faster internet in all areas, it would be done. ISPs aren't running charities. Japan is a tiny little country. The US has 2.5x the population of Japan, but spread over 27x the territory. You think infrastructure is free?

If I understand correctly PS3 title has a better graphics then PS4?

Xbox one owners dream about PS3 graphics?

That game doesn't even look that much better than a current gen game, if Titanfall is supposed to show the capabilities of the Cloud to make X1 games look better, then that's real sad.

Not going to go into too much detail and I'm sure others will explain it but basically you need to educate yourself about how the cloud works and its limitations.

The cloud is great for streaming and for background tasks. When it comes to rendering and boosting performance in real time, not so much.

I don't think you understand the nvidia video the way you should, it does enhance graphics, but it's also running on a LAN and updating the information every few frames (they show many examples).

Baiscally, it's a counter argument to that kind of service (and it shows stuff that seems to be doable locally at the moment...).