yeah, it never worked out with the three current biggest games in the world, WoW, Dota2, League of Legends.  Those games were so unsuccesful for being always online. 

So much hype for the cloud but many here are yet to be impressed ...

Just where exactly are the AAA 1080p & 60fps games on the X1 ?

If the cloud is all that why hasn't it solved Halo 5's dynamic resolution woes ?

Look, I'm not trying to poop on the party (OK, I am) but people need to lower their expectations before they get burned by them ...

This video refers to the CEO of Cloudgine, not Microsoft.  Try again?  

Depends on the video quality and responsiveness you need. That simply glosses over the fact that the video you are watching is buffered ahead to compensate for the variable bitrate at which it arrives at your home. When I do a speed test I average out at 20mbps, however it's full of dips when analyzed further.

even updating hundreds of thousands of these co-ordinates per frame is a relatively small amount of data compared to things like streaming video

Again comparing to what kind of video?
A hundred thousand coordinates per frame is 549 mbps for 60fps in raw data....  Sure you can compress that a lot, yet you can't use lossy compression as used for video. I would take the hundreds of thousands coordinates with a huge grain of salt.

Anyway I guess what they mean is they'll only update collisions while the console will track everything in free fall to keep the data flow under control. Yet can they smooth out the spikes that will generate. It's nice to say you only need 3-5mbps on average, yet if a big explosion needs the equivalent of 50mbps or more for a second things might not look that great. So basically the server will have to work ahead to get the collision data to you ahead of time.

Unlimited CPU is great, depending on unreliable 5mbps for communicating with that unlimited CPU is a huge challenge. I'm curious to see how it will perform in a real world setting with wifi routers serving a bunch of other devices around the house at the same time.

Why so defensive ? 

And it's not like Cloudgine isn't related to Microsoft at all when their doing some work for Crackdown 3 ... 

Soooo if we're not supposed to talk about this with regards to the Xbox platform, can we at least agree that linking to a video whose title's first word is 'Xbox' probably wasn't the way to go? Got to agree with whoever said that a far more fruitful discussion would have been had by linking the original article, rather than the Xbox-slanted Youtube video. o_O

Not only does Cloud Computing mean Always Online, it also gives publishers the option to shut down games entirely, including Single Player games. Just imagine a Single Player game utilizing the Cloud as a mandatory feature. Servers aren't infinite and cost money, at a certain time they WILL be shut down for the game. Do you know what this means for Single Player games utilizing the Cloud? It means that publishers will have the ability to shut down an entire game much like publishers can shut down Multiplayer components of games these days. Just imagine hundreds of PS2 games being unplayable because all of their components require the Cloud and they are shut down in favor for newer games, with the Cloud this will happen.

Watch the video and learn about the areas in gaming it could apply to.  Like Crackdown's destructibile environments and open world games. 

I've seen games on PC FAR more impressive looking than Uncharted 4 and the graphics in gaming is getting better exponentially.

I informed myself before posting, most people hating did not.  I was simply correcting them so they could stop? Or actually watch the video.  It is not related to MS in anyway.

so if the cloud is so much better in videocapturing why cant it record more than 5 minutes of footage? not to mention you have to have a xbox live gold subscription to get your footage on your computer for editing. 

Well if they want to have certain games having better graphics and physics why not releasing a more powerfull xbox which can support these games?

The Xbox Ones BC feature downloads data to verify youre not a pirate? lol, how is it easy to trick the system if only physical games get aproved?

Do you know how many times servers were shut down for these server based games? including the entire original xbox live network which was paid for by its users? And the servers go often times down or your internet. So yeah the graphics will be downgraded in crackdown in the singleplayer mode

From what I read - and again these aren't my words - apparently the maximum bandwidth required is 1.5 mbps to communicate the computations back and forth - so there is no video streaming involved, just communicating computations back and forth. Whether or not that is bs I have no idea; at this early stage I haven't seen any evidence to sway me one way or the other. I am also curious to see how it performs in a real world environment.