Enter, the words we all love hearing about so much, "The Cloud".
Microsoft is, as suggested, working on a game streaming service akin to Gaikai and OnLive, according to insiders close to The Verge. It's very much a work in progress, apparently, and is being designed principally to stream games to Windows devices, but Xbox One compatibility seems all but inevitable, given the PS4's movements in this area.
"There are so many things that the servers can do," he said. "Using our Azure cloud servers, sometimes it's things like voice processing. It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box. We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience."
So let's keep the following in mind here, this service most likely won't be finalized around the time Playstations GAIKAI comes around. They still have a lot of kinks to work out. (At the current moment the game is being streamed to a laptop setup, but xbox one integration is inevitable according to Microsoft employees).
But at least we know it's in the works. It's especially reassuring to me as someone that has a multitude of digital 360 games.
Also, let's try to avoid the Xbone'd comments/ "THEY'RE STEALING SONY IDEAS" comments.
These kinds of services are extremely neat to think about and I'd much rather discuss the service over the tiring Console Wars.
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