I am very curious about the use of a stripped down VM manager that creates and destroys multiple OSes.<p>"One of the machine’s operating systems boots up and is “created” when the machine turns on, Multerer said. Then it stays operating while the machine is on, and then disappears when the machine is turned off."<p>"There’s a third operating system as well that handles other kinds of services, such as the TV services. Switching between these operating systems quickly gives the system its instantaneous feel, Multerer said."<p>It isn't immediately obvious to me why we would want to use multiple operating systems? Is this a kind of super strong separation of processes? Why aren't standard processes sufficient? Is it done for reliability?<p>I am not criticising, I am just confused and this indicates that there are concerns here that I am not familiar with. Anyone with any insights?
"There isn't enough silicon on the box", "We move loads into the cloud to free up resources on the box", "The cloud can tackle tasks in games like physics, artificial intelligence, and even some rendering".<p>So, will it need always online? In that case, here is a console I will never buy.
So they're targeting recurring revenue: family subscriptions for games, Office 365, movies, ... .<p>Nothing wrong with that, others do it. But it does mean that gaming performance is compromised to achieve other objectives.
Hang on - they want to offload game-critical code (like AI) to the internet?<p>And how are people who don't have high-speed internet supposed to use it???
I don't believe a single thing in this article. From start to finish it lists 'cool sounding' but mindless engineering or software choices. A virtual machine to run games so you can do two things at once? Moving rendering tasks to 'cloud tasks' on the GPU?<p>I'll believe it in a couple of years when someone finds jtag headers on the board.
It's making me very angry the more I read about the Xbox One press launch. There's two things you needed to do Microsoft.<p>1) Make the console 5x to 10x more powerful than the previous generation.<p>2) Open the platform up to indies, like Apple have, with an annual subscription of $100, coupled with a reasonable percentage cut (not 60%!).<p>The rest takes care of itself.
<a href="http://xbox.com" rel="nofollow">http://xbox.com</a> was down for most of the day.<p>That does not inspire confidence in your ability to move to the cloud, Xbox team.