http://news.softpedia.com/news/Watch-Dogs-Has-a-More-Dynamic-City-on-Xbox-One-365299.shtml
http://www.oxm.co.uk/56771/titanfall-watch-dogs-developers-discuss-xbox-ones-cloud-computing-advantage/
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/titanfall-xbox-cloud-usher-era-dedicated-servers/
"Its what I call dynamism; basically, the way the city reacts to you, we are able to push further on the Xbox One."
No exact explanation was given about how the Xbox One allows Ubisoft to create a more dynamic city, but it might have something to do with the console's cloud processing feature."
"So suppose you were an AI, and the decision to make you move was run elsewhere. There would be the same latency," he continued. "If you think about it, it's not different than you holding the controller when you're playing multiplayer. It might allow someone to use one dedicated machine just for on AI. What kind of AI could I do with that? That's interesting."
Physics calculations, similarly, aren't dependent on strict timing. "The way a tree reacts to weather, it's physics, right?" Guay went on. "It's bending materials. Well, what if I could run that on the cloud? It doesn't need to be fully synced. There are occasions where there will be an advantage, but it's clear in the short term there's plenty of power within the machines. That's where our engineers are working."
Microsoft realized that player-hosted servers are actually holding back online gaming and that this is something that they could help solve, and ran full-speed with this idea. The Xbox group came back to us with a way for us to run all of these Titanfall dedicated servers and that lets us push games with more server CPU and higher bandwidth, which lets us have a bigger world, more physics, lots of AI, and potentially a lot more than that!
Shiring explains that despite a lot of talk downplaying the importance of the cloud, that it is in fact a really big deal. He also says that the Xbox One Cloud allows developers who use it the ability to do things that games using player hosted servers cant. This is something thats going to let us drive all sorts of new ideas in online games for years to come, concludes Shiring. This innovation is the type of thing that gamers need to hear about from new consoles like the Xbox One."
The war is over before it even begun. When is the PS5 coming out?
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