First. Nobody has claimed that Sony is not capable of cloud. (Whatever the hell that means.)

Second. PSNOW is available on less devices now than it was two years ago. It also hasn't expanded into regions that Sony had originally planned it to. In a sense, PSNOW has actually regressed a bit, rather than progress.

Third. Fun fact. MS used cloud compute In gaming before Sony. At least to my knowledge.

Fourth. Yes Sony know what they're doing, and they will compete. No one has suggested that Sony is getting g out of the "cloud" business as you call it.

@mobius_basic: So MS owns the hardware correct? I've contracted in a few DC's before. Most of the time, I have no idea who runs or owns them, but occasionally I talk to a person or two there and ask just out of interest. I've been in a few that were owned by MS, or at least that's what I was told by the people I spoke to. Of course they could've just assumed or something.

Still, if MS owns the hardware, I struggle to believe that it is a severe disadvantage to do so vs Sony's option. michaelmikado certainly seems to know his stuff, but what he's claiming runs exactly counter to what MS has stated. I suppose time will tell if he's a savant or just a fanboy who wants to believe Sony has all the answers, and is versed just well enough to convince himself that he's right.

@i_p_daily said:

@mandzilla said:

Play this one on PS4 if you really want to hear the jet engines roar! Unmatched immersion.

Yeah you can beat that immersion by watching Joe's Apartment on your PS4 lol

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Brutal.

@the-a-baum: @ronvalencia:

You guys aren't getting it. MS's Azure network CANNOT STREAM XBOX GAMES PERIOD!!! Sony has the infrastructure in place now to currently stream any games they want because they use AWS, which uses AMD hardware. MS is at least 4 years behind Sony. On top of this, they're adding blades which is now defunct tech that Sony has already abandoned.

At this point MS is just too far behind to even attempt to stream games at any sort of large scale. They're engineers have no idea what they're doing, and XCloud can't release in 2019 or 2020. MS has to be lying at this point.

michaelmikado spelled all this out clearly. MS has nothing but Azure, which is useless for streaming xbox games.

If Sony's not paying you, you're stupid.

Not trying to sling personal insults here bud, but if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and posts like a duck well... Ya know.

Pay attention fellow cows. People like henry here is who you've aligned yourself with.

Let that sink in for a minute. If you're okay with that, then continue on. If not.... Then welcome to adulthood.

Interesting!

Could you clarify "Besides hardware"? They lease 90% of everything excluding the hardware, or including it?

Also, Who are the major players in data center space that own the data centers?

Honestly curious.

Edit: What are your thoughts on Azure being completely useless for streaming Xbox games?

Read the first sentence, and was about to punch out a debatable reply about how MS's used games system was going to work, and how it might not be all that bad considering gaming has largely went digital anyway.

Then I read the rest of that drivel, and thought better of it.

OP must have amazing drugs, or was dropped as a baby.

Color me HYPED!!!!!

Days Gone is definitely a GOTY contender! Sure we've seen games similar to this before. Haters will say that it's a knockoff Tlou game. Lems will say that they've already had their fill of Zombie games with State of Decay 1 and 2. Of course others will say that it reminds them too much of The Walking Dead with the biker aspect and all.

They're all wrong!! This game is gonna knock it out of the park!

MS doesn't own it's infrastructure? Do they borrow it? Do they lease or rent it. Do tell.