Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console
Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console
Leaked documents submitted during the FTC v Microsoft case have laid out the company's hardware plans for the remainder of the decade.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3209376
Good luck with that one. Highspeed reliable Internet does not exist everywhere. I'd rather pay for a gpu then deal with garbage gameplay.
They claimed the Xbox One (the original last gen model) would be decades ahead of any other competitors because games would be, wait for it, cloud hybrid. Some things would render locally, but Microsoft servers would calculate complex collisions, volumetrics, crowd AI, and so on.
Guess what never happened.
Because people complained about the connectivity requirements. Unfortunately I don't think we are there still, infrastructure for a lot of areas will not support this.
Because people complained
As they should - for several different reasons.
I think the deal breaker was Gamestop fighting MS on their decision to allow users to sell their cloud games back for credit.
For all its many many many flaws (like having your flagship game start in a snow storm...), Google Stadia very much demonstrated the viability of full game streaming. Even people with shit broadband could still play a "last gen" quality game. Sure people in the outright sticks won't be able to but.. they likely aren't doing a lot of gaming as getting a 10 GB patch out to them is hard enough.
And if you are only doing game logic and some simulations, rather than full rendering? The bandwidth needs drop even more.
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First thing I've heard about it and...pass
Don't worry y'all. By cloud it's just gonna be dynamic ads.
But for real, background animations and details could be streamed through another device having to render that something. Anything that doesn't revolve around the gameplay itself.
Boo
Steamdeck 2 is all I need.
This sounds familiar. Haven’t they been promising this hybrid cloud computing since Crackdown 3?
Copying my comment from another thread:
You’d think Microsoft would calm down on the cloud after the massive Xbox One failure and underwhelming results of their live service games like Halo Infinite. Guess they never learn.
Cloud-Centric company that shows no signs of understanding the art of gaming wants to force people to subscribe to cloud gaming services? I’m Shocked!
Guess how I’ve been playing Starfield on my Xbox One? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with a C and ends with Loud.
I guess you don’t know what the fuck the cloud is because neither of those have anything to do with it.
No worries, looks like a PS6 for me then.
modular thumbsticks
Hmm.
So is this modular thumbsticks akin to the Microsoft Elite controller, where you can put taller or shorter stems on or different tops?
Or is it like the Thrustmaster eSwap Pro, where you can remove the entire mechanism beneath, and put something else in (like, say, a more-expensive-but-immune-to-drift Hall Effect thumbstick)?
I'm not buying another Xbox seeing that Samsung is putting Gamepass on thier TV's with no extra hardware required except for a controller....
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/11/16/xbox-cloud-gaming-coming-to-more-samsung-tvs/
Nevermind the fact that everyone is doing cross-platform multi-player games. One of the main advantages of console gaming is everyone is running the same hardware. If that's the future, then I'll just play on PC.
Samsung TV UIs are laggy as shit, I don’t have high hopes that it’ll work reliably long term.
The new Samsung TV's have free sync like PC monitors...
Isn't what they said about the last two next-generation Xboxes?