A New Edition to the Reigning Sun Network - What The Nexus, a WildStar fansite!

[Jack The Bear]

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.

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

[Malachi]

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

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.