So now MS is again to blowing “clouds” of smoke up everybody’s asses like they did with Xbox One.

“PS4 is not extra highly effective! We can have video games with cloud assisted rendering and physics that can blow away something PS4 can do!”

All of us noticed how that turned out… one sport launched with extraordinarily restricted cloud physics help, and it was nothing to jot down dwelling about. PS4 remained probably the most highly effective console till the mid-gen refresh consoles dropped.

The actual fact of the matter is, even the very best web connections on the market should not have the latency low sufficient to have the ability to do cloud assisted rendering, and that is even with servers close by. With a view to do cloud assisted rendering, it’s a must to ship the information wanted for the body to a server, have the server have sufficient time to do the calculation, after which get the information again from the server in lower than 16 milliseconds so as to have the ability to draw the body quick sufficient to show the picture at 60 frames per second. Most individuals’s ping is not even decrease than 16 milliseconds, which means that even when you have been solely sending one bit of information to the server, and the server did not need to do any processing in any respect, all that needed to do was ship that bit again, you continue to would not get it again in time to attract the body.

Microsoft already acquired caught in that lie as soon as, and right here they’re attempting to do it once more. That simply exhibits they plan on releasing one other weak console just like the Xbox sequence s, after which utilizing cloud hype to attempt to get individuals to purchase into it.

Cloud assisted consoles are a great distance off but, a lot farther than 2028. By the point they’re possible, it might be extra economical simply to sport fully within the cloud with no native processing executed in any way.