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Eh, I don't think paying $380 million and continued investment into console quality game streaming games is exactly cheap.

Abzu is better than 90% of Xbox Fauxclusives, lol.

These job listings indicate very little. Consoles are PCs and the dev kits are too.

God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Shadow of the Colossus and Destiny 2 are all really good examples of how HDR is done right. Shit, Forza Horizon 4 as well.

This does look pretty fuckin' sick. Finally, someone utilizing the power of a high end PC. I suspect next generation consoles will produce similar visuals, and yeah, Cyberpunk don't have shit on this.

The HDR on OLED is stunning. Best example of HDR on a screen, IMO. Got an A8F myself.

Makes sense. A bunch of inferior One S consoles streaming inferior quality games across the board. As if 900p wasn't bad enough.

Yes, it is true that the Xflop App will be available on Switch and PS4 day one.

The fact that you actually believe this.

Well, I guess they could announce their entrance into being a 3rd party like Microsoft did this week instead.

Uh oh, Lemij_ has come out to play. Hopes and Dreams indeed.

It doesn't matter. It's the fact that name changes can be done. Most people have moved on from PS3/Vita.

Back to 90.

I've been to a few Microsoft data centers and I know plenty of people that run and maintain their DCs locally. I've also been to a few other data centers outside of Microsoft. Have you ever been to a Microsoft data center and see how it operates or architected a new network from the bottom up... literally from layer 1 to 7? I didn't think so. They stated 54 because that's the only places their Azure cloud regions are. Trust me, they have more than that. I can already see some that aren't listed.

lol, it's not as easy as you think, and no they won't be deploying these in every data center because some of them aren't even public. I know how big data centers are, I've been in them more than I'd like, and a lot of Microsoft's data centers are a lot of the time filled to the brim with routers, switches, dedicated firewalls, load balancers, IPS, WAF, hyper visors (for Azure), storage, backup systems, management systems, UPS, and most of all a shit ton of servers for their biggest products like Office 365... and not to mention Xbox Live servers. We're talking about hypervisors and load balan

Maybe, we'll see. Encoding/decoding/latency stuff is going to be exactly what everyone else has been doing, so I wouldn't expect much from that. The biggest advantage is Microsoft has datacenters... a fuck ton of them. So the service could be launched worldwide on launch day unlike PlayStation Now. Though, of course, they probably won't be filling up every single DC they have with these new Xbox blades since, well, it requires space/power and not every datacenter is even listed publicly by Microsoft.

Yeah, that's definitely a One S board. Though, I find it funny that Microsoft announces their game streaming endeavor as if its never been done and they're pioneering it.

Oh is it S boards? I thought it was One X. Even better for them since those are even cheaper.

The fact that Microsoft is using Xbox One X boards for their streaming service says a lot. That kind of surprised me a bit because I was for sure thinking they were going to basically do what NVIDIA and Google are doing now for their services, but instead they went the route Sony did and is bringing the "console experience" to streaming and not the PC experience. It's probably to save a lot of money, but at the same time the One X makes more sense to use from a development and support standpoint. Will be interesting to see how it all works out.

The funny thing is that Microsoft isn't dominant at all in the PC gaming space. I bet their revenue is complete and utter garbage in comparison to Steam and GOG. Microsoft doesn't get money for each game sold on those services... Windows just so happens to be the dominant OS that people use for gaming and those services. Why do you think Microsoft created the Microsoft Store and UWP? So they could get a piece of the pie like they do from sales on the Xbox Marketplace. Too bad the Microsoft Store is complete shit.

Free.

Can't wait to play their new game using the xCloud app on Switch.