Cheers for that, Ill have a proper read later in the day, looking at the quote though it comes across what the eSRAM could do, not what the eSRAM is doing in the XO. I just dont see how it could have the dual purpose of keeping the GPU full and then also deal with post processing when rendering, something would have to give IMO. Yes it could depend on how GPU dependent a scene is but then that leads you down the path that later in life when these consoles are stretched the XO just will be the first one to give in...
Come on guys, even the PS4 will have some load pointed at the OS when games are playing...
How utterly hilarious if the end result of all this is that the Xbox is cheaper (due to the cheaper memory/gpu), faster (due to cloud computing), and has all this additional media functionality that the PS4 lacks.
This could be interesting from the Verge & Ars today following an interview with MS. Not without it's own challenges but if you assume this gen of console could have a 7 year life span this could be a significant way to in effect up the processing power in certain circumstances over the years.
It'll be interesting to see where this leads in a few years as publishers try to get more and more out of the console.
I fully accept in advance there will be a certain amount of nerd rage about "OMGz you'll need to be always connected to the internetz Kinect spying on you wtf it's for killing dragons"
The software giant didn't discuss these plans in detail during the Xbox One unveiling earlier this week, but an Ars Technica interview with General Manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms Matt Booty sheds some light on the 300,000-server cloud architecture. Part of the server setup will be used to compute scenes in games. Booty explains that Microsoft is targeting areas that aren't sensitive to latency, a common complaint around cloud-powered games. "There are some things in a video game world, though, that don't necessarily need to be updated every frame or don't change that much in reaction to what's going on."
Part of the cloud processing could be focused on elements such as lighting in games. Booty describes a forest scene where light shines through trees, or a battlefield with fog. Both elements don't need to be updated in real time and can be processed in the background, while the controller remains responsive to the action parts of the game. "Those are perfect candidates for the console to offload that to the cloud—the cloud can do the heavy lifting, because you’ve got the ability to throw multiple devices at the problem in the cloud."
How utterly hilarious if the end result of all this is that the Xbox is cheaper (due to the cheaper memory/gpu), faster (due to cloud computing), and has all this additional media functionality that the PS4 lacks.
