The Xbox Live announcement probably scared Sony. They saw how they were forced to buckle and allow crossplay in Fortnite/Rocket League. Now they see the need to forestall XBL taking over the world with cross-platform accounts, forcing them at some unspecified point in the future to suffer the indignity of adopting their fiercest rival's standard.
Love it! Streaming services like OnLive have suffered from latency which is caused by distance between the user and the data center (note how well the demos always worked at gaming conventions when they had a server in the same room). By distributing servers to the people in the guise of game consoles, Nintendo can assign you a server which is in your same city. And considering how little broadband competition there is in the US, it's quite likely you'll get assigned a server on your same ISP, meaning the traffic doesn't even go out over the internet (even less lag).
All without Nintendo having to build out their own data center infrastructure across every country. Genius.
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Re: Sony Interactive Entertainment Chairman Acknowledges The "Great Experiences" Available On Switch, Talks Of A More Open Future
The Xbox Live announcement probably scared Sony. They saw how they were forced to buckle and allow crossplay in Fortnite/Rocket League. Now they see the need to forestall XBL taking over the world with cross-platform accounts, forcing them at some unspecified point in the future to suffer the indignity of adopting their fiercest rival's standard.
Re: Intriguing Nintendo Patent Points to 'Supplemental Computing Device' and Cloud Resources for a Gaming System
Love it! Streaming services like OnLive have suffered from latency which is caused by distance between the user and the data center (note how well the demos always worked at gaming conventions when they had a server in the same room). By distributing servers to the people in the guise of game consoles, Nintendo can assign you a server which is in your same city. And considering how little broadband competition there is in the US, it's quite likely you'll get assigned a server on your same ISP, meaning the traffic doesn't even go out over the internet (even less lag).
All without Nintendo having to build out their own data center infrastructure across every country. Genius.