Can't wait for Titanfall to drop on my Xbox One next Spring.

"The Xbox Live Cloud lets us to do things in Titanfall that no player-hosted multiplayer game can do. That has allowed us to push the boundaries in online multiplayer and that’s awesome."
This is why Respawn is making the game exclusive to MS because of Azure. Looking forward of playing this game.

Awesome, Thanks Jon Shirin and Respawn. Really good explanation of how the Cloud will work, great read to.

So looking forward to Titanfall. Just a shame that it is not a launch title. Some may not agree but I am sure if it had been then this alone could have moved a truck load of X1's by itself. Just my opinion but Titanfalls launch can't come around soon enough.

I call it a cloud when I see it rain in Forza 5, untill then it's marketing bs. Passing data through internet can not even remotely be compared to passing data through internal components, and the new Xbox is lacking in that department compared to the PS4.

Edit: ok should have read it properly, for online gaming it can help just like dedicated servers. But that's not really news now is it?

I work with cloud infrastructure for a living and I can say this guy has it right. Except his assessment of Amazon's cloud is incorrect - they do IAAS similar to Azure so their cloud is actually very similar to Azure except that it doesn't run only MSFT Windows virtual servers, it runs anything you want. That said, Azure is a powerful IAAS and proven cloud and is the best choice obviously for running Xbox's cloud. PSN will never catch up to its sophistication there are only a small handful of players in the IAAS market. They *could* rent IAAS from Rackspace or Amazon , however, if you've used either one you know that their offerings can be very expensive and that would make them at a huge cost disadvantage to MSFT whom already owns massive IAAS infrastructure deployed all over the world. For me the smoking gun is when I first bought my PS3 and my Xbox360. I remember for the first 1-2 years, PSN's dashboard looked like an HTML1.0 page from 1999 and it was plagued with problems that simple page wouldn't load 90% of the time. The multiplayer was terrible for a very long time as well and then when it finally got to be worth using at all (years later), it was then plagued with outages due to incompetent administration as well as being DOS'd and hacked. I think you all remember that. To think Sony has any ability to come close to compete with MSFT on the internet level no matter which technology you're talking about whether basic connectivity or cutting edge cloud deployment , would be laughable. That said, I've preordered both but I already know how this is going to play out.

You know what would shut people up more than dozens and dozens of articles saying such is possible? Footage showing how its possible. A actual stage presentation even if the servers are on stage with the game being played.

As is all that's being looked at is a coming train wreck while MS and Respawn try to get things to work near any fashion they've promised.

great article

Great read. Summary:

1. Microsoft is offering cheap dedicated servers to developers.

2. Microsoft is letting them focus on maxing out on audio/video without worrying about internet connections running it.

3. Different studios are utilizing it to store other data i.e. Forza storing player's racing AI.

Great way to move us into the future of lag-free gaming.

it wouldnt matter if microsoft showed how it works in a video....they would say the video is photoshoped, or tampered with and not real,....people are delusional, the make themselves believe what they want to believe, prime example, my girlfriends nephew wanted a PS4, thats all his friends and him would talk about, because all they did was read the internet stuff, i explained the truth to him about both consoles not bad mouthing either one...they are changed their preorders except the nephew whos father hasnt preordered yet, but thats all he keeps asking for now...my point is...in a few years when and if this shows to be true , and even after people see it for themselves, your still gonna get a few idiots that will say and i quote, (thats not real)...in closing im gonna say once that it was established that the ps3 has better graphics and it showed in the exclusives, there was no denying it...and not once did i write or disagree with it...because it was true....if it wasnt true sony would have never said...we can do that too...think about it

PS4 has Gaikai and Xbox has cloud so they both will be able to take advantage of these features!

MS haven't had a good start to this gen in most areas, but their upgrade in online infrastructure for XB1 should be a huge selling point for any gamer who plays mostly online....like me.

Titanfall and Forza are looking to use the cloud in great ways.....Destiny and The Division are also online required games that could certainly benefit a lot....Be interesting to see how Halo uses this too....

If you play online games, you need to at least be excited by the prospects of this......

Will BF4 and COD Ghosts have dedicated servers on XB1?

Most intelligent discussion I've seen on N4G about the Xbox one ever