Microsoft has been developing a new Xbox for a few months, which will be called "Xbox Streaming." It will supposedly use an AMD APU called "Picasso."
This console is supposedly going to be an inexpensive, energy-efficient model, and most importantly, it will use the cloud for gaming. This is known as Project xCloud, which I discussed some time ago and which you can access by clicking HERE . In addition to this console, there will be another, much more powerful one that will allow us to play games locally. The best part is that this processor is powerful yet consumes almost no energy.
Microsoft is very interested in acquiring these APU`s, not only for the aforementioned, but also for their price. Some calculations that are sensitive to latency will be performed on the console hardware. But the hardest part of the calculations will be done in data centers. Since they are not sensitive to latencies.
Is Xbox Streaming Official?
For now we don't know anything, the only thing we have is different reports from two sources such as The Verge and Thurrott's. These sources are quite trustworthy but until Microsoft presents the console, we don't know anything for sure.
How will we play?
It's easy, according to the data we have right now, two consoles will be launched. One in which it will be played by streaming and another for which we can play locally like a normal Xbox. I repeat that nothing is safe until Microsoft says something. The good thing is that the streaming version will be much cheaper and will consume much less energy compared to the normal one.
On the other hand, the Xbox that comes out in a "normal" version will have much more power, we won't need an internet connection but it will be more expensive. What many will wonder about is the issue of latency in video games. If we think about it, the information that we send from the controller will be sent to a server and from the server it will return to our screen. I'm not saying that it can't be solved, but we will surely need a very good internet connection.
