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    Image of D-K D-K
    10/27/09

    In reply to Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
    I find this cloud-gaming business a bit shady

    *wink* #xboxlive
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    Image of Izod517 Izod517
    10/27/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: I see what you did thar, but it's a bit over my head.
    *nudge* #xboxlive
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    Image of D-K D-K
    10/27/09

    @Izod517: Give it some time, it'll drizzle in..

    *necksnap* #xboxlive
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    Image of Simon Goldring Simon Goldring
    10/28/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: I'm not so sure if Kotaku comments are a suitable climate to discuss such matters.

    *finger-click* #xboxlive
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    Image of Phydeaux Phydeaux
    10/28/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: Ya'll are a bunch of nimbuses. #xboxlive
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    Image of D-K D-K
    10/28/09

    @Phydeaux: I haven't the foggiest what you're on about.. #xboxlive
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    Image of ChickenPawks ChickenPawks
    10/28/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: oh no, i see more puns rolling in. #xboxlive
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    Image of Izod517 Izod517
    10/28/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: You can't be sirrus.
    *foot-tap* #xboxlive
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    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    10/27/09

    In reply to Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
    I wish game saves could be in the cloud, but that would probably kill the memory card market. #xboxlive
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/27/09

    In reply to Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
    Wait.
    I thought Cloud gaming was having your stuff stored in "The Cloud".
    Like SteamCloud stores preferences, eventually saves(come on Valve already.. though I have like 200mb of Oblivion files, so I guess their good) and Key mappings.
    I also use stuff like Google Docs n Dropbox as Cloud services.
    I'd call stuff like Onlive n Gaikia... Streamed/streaming gaming?

    But then again, Web 2.0 buzzwords who knows wtf they mean? #xboxlive
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    Image of slimky slimky
    10/27/09

    @deanbmmv: Well in fact cloud computing means a lot of thing. The concept behind cloud is that you act as a client accessing stuff on the architecture (servers, database, networks, etc) in a simple way and without the knowledge of all this structure. Wikipedia as an interesting article about it. [en.wikipedia.org]

    Streamed gaming would also be a good definition for OnLive and Gaikia but the word is so 2005 (when YouTube was created) ;) #xboxlive
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/27/09

    @slimky: I know how the cloud works.
    I'm quite the digital nomad. The cloud is very useful for just jumping on any PC with a browser with your login and boom.
    Steam is cloud gaming.
    I can use the Steam client on any PC to access my collection of games.

    OnLive and co are well....they ain't cloud, they don't concentrate on storage and services to use that storage.
    It's more... Hosted PC's. You rent VM's off them and stream what they do straight to your PC. #xboxlive
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    Image of Morgan Rock Morgan Rock
    10/27/09

    @deanbmmv: it's actually kind of an interesting idea. how much money has MS lost with 360 hardware? imagine that turned into many many clustered servers distributed around the country, with "dial-in" like access. as you dial in, you're granted access to a dynamically-allocated chunk of virtual hardware resources that produce your gaming experience and stream the I/O (think PS3 remote play) back to your home device (whatever it is)...

    the cloud environment could change, upgrade, and grow dynamically and as business need dictated... damn, that's probably a market Google could muscle MS out of in a hot minute... anyway, that's how it'd work. billions of dollars spent on servers and related hardware to enable streaming to connections with a hardy enough internet connection. it'll happen, cuz i can see it being profitable, and i'm just a lowly dual-BSer. #xboxlive
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/27/09

    @Morgan Rock: You just described how OnLive works.....
    The main issues is a three/four letter word - LAG/PING
    And while Google have vast amount of servers they don't have the correct structure to facilitate game streaming. They are cloud, just vast amounts of storage for the search index, Youtube, Gmail n Google Docs.. Which a big HDD doens't matter much for gaming. #xboxlive
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    Image of InconspicuouslyConspicuous InconspicuouslyConspicuous
    10/27/09

    In reply to Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
    cloud has it's uses but I don't trust MS for my cloud services... I don't know if I ever will #xboxlive
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    Image of Bouchart Bouchart
    10/27/09

    In reply to Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
    Floppy disks, zip disks, magnetic tape...I'll take any physical medium over the "cloud." #xboxlive
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    Image of Brodka: regrettably Brodka: regrettably
    10/27/09

    @Bouchart: I'm perfectly happy with downloading off a service as well. At least I have it locally on a hard drive.

    It's being totally reliant on an internet connection that bothers me. If the connection is down, or slow, you can't even play a single player game. No thanks. #xboxlive
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