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Originally Posted by Malachi

When I say too big I mean that there's too much data for consoles to handle. Big persistent online worlds like Defiance barely run on consoles. No way you could put a mammoth like WoW on a console. Consoles are running on hardware that is faaaaar inferior to even a basic gaming PC. To be able to run a large MMORPG like WoW or WildStar, the consoles would have to meet the minimum requirements at least, and they just don't yet.

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But if you factor in the cloud gaming aspect, they could pull it off. Consoles are very powerful machines in their own right.

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Originally Posted by Jack The Bear

But if you factor in the cloud gaming aspect, they could pull it off. Consoles are very powerful machines in their own right.

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The cloud is just for storing the information, and it's only used to hold your personal save data. A cloud couldn't hold the entire database of every single item, mob, quest, npc, recipe, ability, resource, node, mount, etc. There's just too many things to process all at once. A console can't handle that yet. It's not a problem with storage, it's a problem with processing all that info.