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Ok this is awesome. This is a trustworthy site and they reported on the new free content for PvZ. They also said the resolution on Xbox One has been significantly increased. SICK! Plus lots of content, all free.
http://www.xboxworld.nl/artikelen/nieuws/gratis-update-pvz-garden-warfare/
It's in Dutch and i have yet to see other sites reporting on it. But i trust this site.
http://www.xboxworld.nl/artikelen/nieuws/gratis-update-pvz-garden-warfare/
It's in Dutch and i have yet to see other sites reporting on it. But i trust this site.
My inner conspiracy theorist is completely stimulated
Someone posted this on the X1 Reddit.....a screen grab taken from the Windows 10 video (upper right):
Good catch. What does your inner conspiracy theorist tell you?
That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense for me!
People actually use OneNote?My inner conspiracy theorist is completely stimulated
Someone posted this on the X1 Reddit.....a screen grab taken from the Windows 10 video (upper right):
How far has xbox come since reveal is incredible.
This system has seen so many changes and upgrades to hardware and software.
Now next year we will start going beyond what's inside the console with cloud compute. Crackdown is its 1st step wait til we see 2nd wave of games.
Remember the xbox slogan 'beta tested in the future'? Its just about here and I'm ready.
This system has seen so many changes and upgrades to hardware and software.
Now next year we will start going beyond what's inside the console with cloud compute. Crackdown is its 1st step wait til we see 2nd wave of games.
Remember the xbox slogan 'beta tested in the future'? Its just about here and I'm ready.
Cloud is nothing but background noise. Cool noise, but it will not be at the forefront of gaming this gen.
Let's revisit this next year.....i'm betting that every 1st Party MS studio will use it
Doesn't matter if every first party game uses it. You get 3 to 5 first party games a year.
So. If we only get 10 games in the next 5 years that significantly push the boundaries compared to everything else on the PS4 and Xbox One, that's still exciting. Bottom line is that the Xbox exclusive developers have more tools in their toolbox to create interesting and innovative features. If developers want to dip their toe in cloud processing to prepare themselves for next gen, they either need a partnership with Amazon or need to develop exclusively on the Xbox.
If any game that uses the cloud successfully becomes a commercial success, I could see some large 3rd parties reaching out to independent companies to use their servers by the end of this gen. It's hard to imagine EA and Activision sit back because Sony is so slow with their own infrastructure.
It is exciting. Never said it was bad or not exciting. It will still be background noise though. There simply will not be enough games using it to push it to the forefront of gaming.
Your bottom line just gave way. Sony has a cloud infrastructure as well.
SONY does not have the servers to back up their service though! If they did they would be demonstrating it now........they have had nearly 3 years of warning!
They have one though. They are just choosing to use it for different things. MS would have done the same if they new that always online was going to be so controversial--which they should have. If it wasn't then the cloud could have been huge for MS. My guess is they are still pushing it with hopes it will spur gamers to go always online next-gen.
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It is capable. There is nothing special about what MS is doing, by that I mean others can easily incorporate it into their cloud infrastructures. It is just that MS are the only ones using it for this specific purpose.
I doubt Sony would even go this route anyway.
Sorry menace but that is rubbish, MS have done extensive work in having a set of APIs that could offload processing to the cloud. Its by no means an easy task. The easiest option is something like Gaikai or Onlive where everything is done on a hosted system.
So you do not think a company with vast experience in computer hardware and software can do that? Lets not forget that they bought a company that specializes in creating software for third party use, and they acquired a company who specialize in cloud services.
It isn't even like MS is bringing something new. This stuff has been around for years. MS is simply bringing it to the masses.
Next thing you will be saying is that they are old email servers as the SDF like to tell everyone!
Im sure if you have a handful of servers, you could apply it. Sony has some servers, but there's a stark difference between MS saying "Halo, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto? Why yes you can have dedicated servers on Xbox and it won't cost you a dime" and Sony who have already shut down servers for MLB The Show...and on Xbox you can still play Kameo or Perfect Dark or PGR3 online.
Well it is and it isn't, it's true anyone can have servers and anyone can build tech around it under the same parameters...but can Sony or Nintendo offer it to everyone for free?
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You do know Sony was the one said that MS didn't have the resources to do suck. Also that it's not there until another 10 years.
So I say Sony is nowhere close or even know where to begin.
Kinda like VR because it's expensive, but that doesn't mean it'll just be burried in the background.
Sony has very small cloud infrastructure of less than 30,000 servers.
They acquired gaikai for less than 1/2 the price of one of MS unequiped buildings to host servers.
They paid $380M for gaikai, with each server cost of $30,000-$50,000 that would mean 12,666 servers tops and that's without deducting any money for building cost.
MS has 200,000 reserved for xbox one only.
there already are many games that are always online, think of Titanfall Destiny and new NFS
That is not true, first there is no other game company with scalable servers, second Microsoft OutaTime, Microsoft Kahawai. And also see what I told you about limited availability of sony servers.
What does experience with computer hardware have to do with it? Don't you think that MS has more experience in PC world?
And if they were capable then their streamed games would not have such high latency. It's funny that you say it's not like MS is bringing something new when they actually spent billions of dollars in researching and developing these things for years.
Since it has been around for years show us exactly how it works and whose work did they take as their own?
You are forgetting that all this is 99% software and sony is nowhere near in that department
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