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Tomshardware.com is reporting that the Xbox One's ability to offload process to the Microsoft cloud will increase the Xbox One 4 fold. Apparently for every Xbox One build, the cloud will grow for 3 times that amount. So in theory the Xbox One is not limited to the specs of the console as their are far more resources available to it beyond the hardware. Even then its specs are still pretty good.
So what exactly will the Xbox One do with all that cloud processing power and storage? General Manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms Matt Booty gave Ars Technica a scenario, describing a scene where the user is moving through a rugged terrain shrouded by volumetric fog.
"Let’s say you’re looking at a forest scene and you need to calculate the light coming through the trees, or you’re going through a and have very dense volumetric fog that’s hugging the terrain," he said. "Those things often involve some complicated up-front calculations when you enter that world, but they don’t necessarily have to be updated every frame. 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."
Via: Tomshardware