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Kenichiro Yoshida says 'technical difficulties' with streaming games still persist
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Thought it was interesting that Yoshida was giving some thoughts on cloud when we also had Jim Ryan recently state that SIE had some aggressive plans regarding cloud in the coming months.
Sony chief warns technical problems persist for cloud gaming
Promise of technology remains unfulfilled after more than a decade of development
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Kenichiro Yoshida says 'technical difficulties' with streaming games still persist
Sony's chief executive has warned that cloud gaming is still technically "very tricky", playing down the risk to the console maker of the industry quickly converting to a technology on which its rival Microsoft has bet heavily. In an interview with the Financial Times, Kenichiro Yoshida said the PlayStation creator would still study "various options" in the future for streaming games over the internet itself, adding it could utilise GT Sophy, its artificial intelligence agent, to enhance cloud gaming. "I think cloud itself is an amazing business model, but when it comes to games, the technical difficulties are high," said Yoshida, citing latency — the fast response times demanded by gamers — as the biggest issue. "So there will be challenges to cloud gaming, but we want to take on those challenges."
Yoshida also pointed to the costly inefficiencies of cloud gaming where servers are idle for much of the day before having to cope with the high levels of traffic of gamers playing during the evening or "dark time". He added that Sony had responded by unleashing GT Sophy in the quiet hours to learn how to beat human competitors in the auto-racing simulator Gran Turismo. "The dark time for cloud gaming had been an issue for Microsoft as well as Google, but it was meaningful that we were able to use those [quieter] hours for AI learning," said Yoshida, speaking at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.
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Thought it was interesting that Yoshida was giving some thoughts on cloud when we also had Jim Ryan recently state that SIE had some aggressive plans regarding cloud in the coming months.
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