Zombie: They don’t really offer machines like that in Azure with gaming GPUs and they don’t have any high frame rate remote / streaming in place for VMs.
Watching a YouTube even from a vm is immediately choppy because RDP isn’t suited for that. These streaming techs use special video encoding and input servers.
There’s alternatives to RDP you can install on the VMs themselves but I don’t think they’d offer an experience nearly as good as what the game streaming companies are doing.
Hmm maybe that’s why they are using consoles on a blade for xcloud right now? I’m thinking in the far future they would adapt the console/pc os to a more dynamic compute method? Like you have your windows cloud machine but pull in a few extra Machines to handle more physics. Or maybe the VM would just know to dynamically allocate more of the underlying physical blades hardware based on the game running?
If streaming takesoff consoles are on borrowed time imo, you can’t mod their games, all their value as a device is based playing a game without the hassle of pc, and for cheaper. If they’ve got the connection and are already used to the higher latency from HDTVs using controllers, then taking out the $500 box just to play a game is a no brainer to me.
I think the shit is really gonna hit the fan when Nintendo announces their own service. The switch already uses streaming in Japan for resident evil 7. Then you will have 3/3 of the console makers with their own cloud services.
