Xbox One: The New Generation of Xbox (Discussion thread)

Here's an interesting idea, we know that the Xbox One and the Xbox 360 have extremely different architecture (making it difficult to emulate games that are highly optimised for the old console), but wouldn't a great way to show off the power of the cloud be to have servers running in a similar architecture to 360 that allow you to play 360 games on the One? I'm not convinced by Microsoft that the cloud will be any good but I do have some hope that they may do it right, offloading the 360 specific tasks to the cloud would be, I think, an excellent way to show off their point.

Obviously I'm keeping my lovely Reach 360 anyway , but it's just a thought.

What you said doesn't make sense. You can't offload certain aspects. Everything would have to be streamed from the cloud.

And what exactly is the problem with offloading certain aspects of the processing to the cloud? I haven't got a PhD in computer science or networking but I'm pretty certain you can ask for just some calculations do be done outside of a machine, it doesn't all need to be done via the cloud. And I'm pretty sure this is what Microsft have been implying they're trying to do the whole time.

Here's an interesting idea, we know that the Xbox One and the Xbox 360 have extremely different architecture (making it difficult to emulate games that are highly optimised for the old console), but wouldn't a great way to show off the power of the cloud be to have servers running in a similar architecture to 360 that allow you to play 360 games on the One? I'm not convinced by Microsoft that the cloud will be any good but I do have some hope that they may do it right, offloading the 360 specific tasks to the cloud would be, I think, an excellent way to show off their point.

Obviously I'm keeping my lovely Reach 360 anyway , but it's just a thought.

Sony are going to start doing it 2014 to allow you to play PS1, PS2 and PS3 games via the cloud.

As I said before, I'd be surprised if they bothered streaming PS1 games using "the cloud". It would be completely pointless. Maybe there's a case for PS2 games, depending on how good their emulation is, but even that I suspect could be done easily enough on the console itself.

I've seen "M$/M£" on so many forums now, not that I wish to spoil your fun, but its a bit childish. A key point to remember is that Sony and Microsoft are businesses in a Capitalist age. Money is everything to them, at least Microsoft changed their negative aspects regarding the console, it took Sony an entire gaming-generation to give players the ability to join parties with their friends playing different games. Not to mention they're now asking for money for PSN, which is great, perhaps it'll stop hacking scandals Sony is famous for.

“Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself” – Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s

Me too. PS2 and PS1 emulation is fine on PC's and PS3 so i think PS1 and PS2 games (digital download) should work fine on PS4 in time.

Really there's no technical reason they couldn't allow you to play from actual PS2 discs. Whether they will or not, I don't know. They might decide they could make more money by making people pay for a digital copy even if they already have a physical one.