But even then, from a technical perspective, it isn't going to work for games that require split second accuracy. Go measure the input lag on any cloud based game, and you'll see what I mean. Even on the best connections, you're still lagging too far behind to run a game like Call of Duty or Street Fighter and be able to pull off shots/attacks fast enough to be competitive. There is a noticeable lag with online cloud gaming, and this will also apply even if some of the calculation...
Always active LOCAL wifi connection, not requiring you to be online and connected to their servers just to play the thing... Huge night and day difference there.
Exactly, has everyone forgotten all the cloud BS they spewed about Xbox One whenever it was revealed that it was significantly weaker than the PS4?
Not even just people's home connections, But the number of hops the data has to go through in order to get from their server to your system, the distance between adding several milliseconds per hop, and the fact that in order to render at 60 frames per second, you have to get all of the data you need to draw that frame back within 16 milliseconds, even fiber optic internet connections don't consistently have pings below 16 milliseconds. Especially when the server they are connecting t...
So now MS is back to blowing "clouds" of smoke up everyone's asses like they did with Xbox One.
"PS4 isn't more powerful! We will have games with cloud assisted rendering and physics that will blow away anything PS4 can do!"
We all saw how that turned out... one game launched with extremely limited cloud physics assistance, and it was nothing to write home about. PS4 remained the most powerful console until the mid-gen refresh ...
This doesn't factor in exactly how the games get held back. Some things you can optimize down to run on a lower end system... You can remove ray tracing, you can drop resolution, you can drop texture size, you can simplify the number of polygons in a model... but other things, like physics complexity, fluid simulation, level size (it must fit into RAM or be streamable from the disc fast enough to stream it in and out of RAM), etc. that gameplay elements rely on to make the game work right...
Those pockets won't just get drained forever to keep this experiment on life support. They already gave it a 2027 cutoff date, not just for GP, but for Microsoft in the gaming industry entirely. That means Activision & Bethesda go on fire sale, Xbox as a brand goes out of business.
And Nadella isn't going to keep this thing on life support for long, which is why Spencer said 2027 is the cutoff date, if they don't see a substantial rise in subscriptions by then, they are out of the industry. I'm sure that came straight from the top.
@Minute Man, they said it themselves, I'd take their word for it.
However, in the aforementioned testimony, Spencer says that "the Xbox business today runs at a single-digit profit margin."
He wouldn't be saying "If GamePass subscriptions do not substantially increase by 2027, Microsoft may exit the gaming business." if they were raking in profits. They aren't.
@Be Hunted, $69 billion is far from "free of charge". It would take years and years worth of releases to even come close to recovering that, while also still having to pay for the rest of the games they do not own.
If Xbox was doing so good, statements like "If gamepass subscriptions don't substantially increase by 2027, Microsoft may exit the videogame industry." wouldn't be made by the likes of Phil Spencer, but they are. Those aren't words of confidence, they are words of desperation.
" Xbox division is making more profits out revenues than Playstation. I don´t care if you like it or not. It is what it is."
"However, in t...
That was last year... and as the article mentions, could be skewed by the way the numbers are counted. Phil goes on to admit "the Xbox business today runs at a single-digit profit margin" (note that they leave out what that single digit is, so there's no way of knowing if it is above or below Sony's 7%)
Keep in mind this is BEFORE the Activision deal closed which removed an additional $69 billion... their profit margins now could be (and likely are) in the...
If I had a dollar for every downvote and angry PM I've gotten for saying exactly that, lol.
"Prove to me that developers are saying PS5 games are being held back by Series S!"
Bro... it's flipping obvious, any multiplat game has to also run on S per Microsoft's demands, so if it can't run on S, it can't go into the PS5 version, assuming it's a core gameplay feature (like level size, AI complexity, physics detail that the ...
And sadly, even with all that hype, it isn't even the most powerful, there's plenty of games out there that run better on PS5. It just has a slightly more powerful GPU because Sony chose to devote some of the GPU die to 3D audio processing, and some of the total system budget to a much faster HDD and more features built into the controller. In the end the more balanced approach paid off, dramatically. Once Pro drops next year, all that talk of teraflops will be in the past.
Yeah, being "close to last gen in power" was what Switch was supposed to be, and it wasn't. Now they're saying that Switch 2 will still be stuck in last gen, when this gen's hardware is already showing its age. There's no excuse for cheaping out on hardware that much, Nintendo is getting greedy... you know they're still going to expect top dollar for the thing, at least as much as a Series S, which is what it should be comparing itself to.
"I'll take "Damage Control" for $1000, Alex."
They are twisting themselves into pretzels to try to spin what he said into anything but what he said, lol.
If it was doing so great, they'd be screaming their profits from the rooftops, instead we get Phil saying they're considering exiting gaming completely if things don't turn around dramatically for GP by 2027 (in other words, this may be their last generation in gaming, and GamePass is their last hope, and so far it hasn't delivered).
I already own a discless PS5... lol. But I had the option to buy one with discs, which is the key point here... and that option will remain with the new discless model, as it is said to accept an external blu-ray drive that you attach via the usb port... and in the end, that's actually even better than having it built in, because if it craps out, you just buy another drive, not another console.