Let me tell you something, I am a Network engineer by trade, I have been in the industry for over 20 years, I am on call 24/7 365 days a year, I have consulted on projects in the US, the middle east, asia and most of Europe, I am telling you right here, right now, that what MS is proposing with the cloud is not possible.
This planet of ours does not have the infrastructure in place to handle that kind of information exchange. That infrastructure will not be in place for another 10 years at least, but to boast that the X1's power will triple due to cloud is a total misterpretation of the truth, blatent PR BS. All that is capable now is serverside computations for A.I or as Forza does matchmaking and driveatar calculations, thats pretty much it, bandwidth kills anything that requires instant serverside calculations.

I am an advocate for cloud, I can see an immense future for cloud computing, but please people dont get hung on cloud as the almighty.

@POwerVR

pfffffffft now thats just pathetic.

This isnt even a demo of the azure cloud network that Microsoft has its a demo from Nvidia. And the servers from Nvidia are composed of powerful GPUs so they can render graphics at a tremendous level. Microsofts azure cloud are just a bunch of CPUs stacked together and they dont contain the same graphic processing power as Nvidias cloud servers. Also what nullify your argument is the state of our network infrastructure there is no way that such a complicated and powerful cloud network can function through them.

Im sorry but its time that you pull your head out of the cloud and accept the fact,

Hardware>>>>>& amp; amp; amp; gt;>>>>>>&am p;am p;gt ; >>>>>>>&a mp;a mp;a mp;gt ;>>> Cloud computing

@badkolo

PowerVR gave me an example of Nvidias cloud computing solution not Microsofts.

Deal with it.

@Snipercontrol

"I am an advocate for cloud, I can see an immense future for cloud computing, but please people dont get hung on cloud as the almighty."

Some people believe that cloud computing will turn the XBOX One into an ultimate gaming console capable of rendering 3D graphics on the same level as Avatar the movie. But the truth is our network infrastructure is nowhere near the level to support something like this.

Hate to break it to you guys but the government (FCC) is going hard on connection speed.

It is a requirement for the sake of new innovations and business along with high-speed rails.

http://www.fcc.gov/document...

Google has so far answered that call with Google Fiber. So if within two years, one major city in each state has 1gig speeds, it is then inevitable that within the coming years gigabit speeds will be a norm.

Cities alone are a big factor, since there are more people in cities then rural areas...of course.

These were talks years ago, and it seems as if Microsoft bet there money on this by risking it with their architecture. Along with Google.

Besides their PR claim, they've time and time again that Azure will be gradual as time goes on and developers use it more often the better it gets. It's in it's infancy, fellas so no need to make assumptions now. Games however...

@Kayant what is GPU computing? GPU computing offers unprecedented application performance by offloading compute-intensive portions of the application to the GPU, while the remainder of the code still runs on the CPU. From a user's perspective, applications simply run significantly faster. Where do you think the GPUs are at for the computing? Instead of being server side, they are are user hardware side in your Xbox One.