Wishmaster92
Member
Lol what i don't get is since an internet connection is only required once a day. What would happen if you want to play a game that "supposedly" uses all of this 40x power and you are not connected at that time?
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MS: Xbox One 40x More Powerful Than 360 with the Cloud, Only 10x Without the Cloud
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Queen of Hunting
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explains why they will keep supporting xbox 360
If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Do you actually believe this?
Vol5
Member
It was a buzz word like 5 years ago, but yeah, the masses will lap this shit up.
Jake Tower
Banned
Just like SimShitty.
You will get 40x lower framerate and texture resolution
krypt0nian
Banned
You and HarSon should share meds.
gaming_noob
Member
40times more powerful than 360 but still less powerful than PS4.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
JakkuFurosu
Member
this all sounds eerily familiar
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I cannot tell sarcasm anymore... E3 is gonna break me.
If mS has this super amazing technology maybe they should have showed it at their press conference. Or mentioned it
Time sensitive computations (graphics/physics related) still take up the majority of a system's computation potential. By their metric, they'd be offloading 3/4 of the XBOne's computations to the cloud, which is absolute nonsense.
Carpe Diem
Banned
Using dah power in your face, sending you back to your place.....
la flama blanca
Banned
Is this a joke, for real, please tell me.
les papillons sexuels
Banned
How? thats the only thing I can think. How does cloud make the console more powerful?
Indeed. And if this was really possible, why even release a new console at all? Just offload all that shit in regular-ass 360 games, destroy the competition and keep your huge userbase.
You know why they don't know do that? Because it doesn't fucking work that way.
iNvid02
Member
this sounds pretty groundbreaking, i wonder why they didnt demo any of it the other day
edit: was this sarcasm? i hope so, i cant fucking tell anymore gaf
It's pretty brilliant if you think about it, though. It's a two-fer. Not only do the fanboy warriors get to deny reality and say Xbox is more powerful when you factor in cloud, but now they're also gonna evangelize the benefits of always on consoles.
I have to admit I missed that the other day during the presentation. Because it seemed too incoherent and drunkard like. I just went to my happy place and blocked it out so I wouldn't rage at the stupidity of what I was hearing. But that was MS' way of getting people fired up for always on boxes. It turbo charges your shit and makes PS4 its bitch! Quite genius if the world is really as stupid as they think it is.
I have to admit I missed that the other day during the presentation. Because it seemed too incoherent and drunkard like. I just went to my happy place and blocked it out so I wouldn't rage at the stupidity of what I was hearing. But that was MS' way of getting people fired up for always on boxes. It turbo charges your shit and makes PS4 its bitch! Quite genius if the world is really as stupid as they think it is.
Ha!
I feel sorry for you. You're clearly be sarcastic and referencing SimCity, but it went way above a lot of people it seems :\
terrdactycalsrock
Member
I dont know how computer tech, like ram, the gpu, the cpu, ect work so forgive me if this question is absurd. But is what Microsoft saying possible? The last time I heard about something like the was Onlive. Even that service didnt seemingly succeeded in pulling processing power from the cloud
Wishmaster92
Member
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!
No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!
No no limits, we'll reach for the sky!
No valley to deep, no maintain to high
No no limits, won't give up the fight
We do what we want and we do it with pride
No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!
No no limits, we'll reach for the sky!
No valley to deep, no maintain to high
No no limits, won't give up the fight
We do what we want and we do it with pride
Don't worry. Few people here do.
Particularly not those that laugh/scream the loudest.
Insane Metal
Member
Jesus Christ.
Is this 2005 Sony or something?
Is this 2005 Sony or something?
Perfect.
Neuromancer
Member
I don't see how any of this could be true. It makes no sense. Reminds me of the crazy pre-PS3 cell stuff Sony used to talk about.
Various Artists
Banned
Wait a minute, yesterday Major Nelson declared the cloud had "infinite power" now its only down to 40x? Why did the specs lower? Why didn't any of the games look 40x better than the 360.
What is going on with the XBone?
What is going on with the XBone?
I generally agree with you. They may not point in the direction of games I generally like to play, but potential benefits from leveraging cloud resources are real... though that doesn't eliminate genuine skepticism over their intentions or why they're really pushing for "cloud" services.
However:
Good point; the cloud infrastructure is a service by nature, and there's presumably nothing in the hardware of the Xbone that makes it better at using cloud processing than its competitors. They're basically selling us on (1) MS's existing server and cloud resources, which are not insubstantial - and (2) presumably a lot of work already done on the software / OS end to integrate it.
But yes... the competitors could theoretically add all that functionality into the PS4 or Wii U with software updates; it's not inherently part of the Xbone itself to leverage the cloud, as far as I can tell.
Vol5
Member
How about 90% of the dudebro population?
vs a 50% faster GPU and possibly faster CPU as well, and don't forget MORE of that ram's likely to be available. It's going to be a massacre.
Sony's promises with Gaikai generally make sense: stream a video of where you are in a game so friends can see and join in, trying demos as they're rendered on their servers and streaming the footage to you, and likely greatly useful for tourney spectating as a server can get the data from everyone's game and render it for everyone to watch without taking up much of their bandwidth.
This X1 stuff? It's all smoke and mirrors.
And everytime someone tries this kind of unsubstantiated, nonsensical rhetoric, GAF does a fair job of putting them in their place. Everyone gets put through the same gauntlet for this kind of stuff. Should they not?
Damn, so obvious! Why didn't I respond with "I see what you did there" ...
Screaming!!!!
Portugeezer
Member
I would prefer the 10x and having future proof games, that and I don't believe them.
NullPointer
Member
And we already know how an internet connection has made current gen consoles 40x more powerful.
Just needed vapor to push it into the next gen.
JetBlackPanda
Member
news flash..
dudebros don't want to yell into their kinects or flop there hands together to close the menu they also like to play COD/HALO/ at their friends house.
Diablo Rosso
Member
If you believe that then you must believe what MS said in the OP, which is pure bullshit.