Hunh? What is TitanFall using for AI? Unless Respawn’s PR-ing too? Also, it was and is Phil Spencer pushing the Cloud as more than dedicated servers. It’s almost like he has to remind everyone that what MS is doing with the Cloud is all of those things. In fact, since Phil has been head boss, he’s the reason we saw the Cloud Destruction Demo at Build. Retweets everyone that it wasn’t just “throwaway work”, shows Crackdown 3 trailer “in concept”. I believe he’s tweeted they’ll show the expected latency and more later, as he’s aware of the mass scepticism. Been tweeted, “Eager to show an impressive realtime demo”, but obviously, the Crackdown can’t come soon enough.

Now that Phil Spencer is in charge they’re dialing back the “infinite power of the cloud” PR BS and going with the far more realistic “Dedicated Multiplayer Servers”, which is what they always were. Thanks for keeping it real, Phil.

“The Cloud” is just remote multiplayer hosting servers, the same things that have been used for online FPS and MMOs for years and years. Crackdown 3 is going to have a prettier version of BF4 building destruction running on a remote multiplayer server.

Almost any internet capable device can benefit from remote servers, mustard.

This, to me, is where the hardware fight has been going on. In fact, Microsoft obviously designed the X1 with Cloud in mind, years ago, before any PS4 reveal. Maybe some people feel they’re PR-ing the Cloud to gain the hardware advantage by perception. But again, the X1 was designed to take advantage of the Cloud, in mind years ago, and has been the message since the May reveal. It would behoove them not, to talk about the product and what they have in mind going forward, Crackdown hopefully show and proving.

Microsoft is using their first parties to push Cloud gaming as a differentiator for Xbox. It is obviously new game developement, which will increase in capability over time. They didn’t state the Japanese gamers will be playing “Graphics rendering from the Cloud” in 2014. Nor even 2015. What they’re advertising is that Xbox One will be recieving, Compute from the Cloud that is capable, of 3 Xboxes. For now there’s TitanFall. Then Crackdown, and maybe Halo 5 using Compute. Obviously Microsoft’s pushing their parties (and 3rd) to get to, the “graphics rendering” stage of Cloud gaming. Also with better internet connections over time. So if I’m Japanese and I buy an X1, play Titanfall, wait for Halo 5 and Crackdown, I’d be excited to observe Cloud Compute evolve with more possibilities on the way. I wouldn’t feel “robbed” or “duped” in any way, seeing Phil Spencer’s push and different studios show us what’s in the pipeline.