No the hypocrisy I pointed out is in the idea that a game who takes full advantage of the offline hardware, is somehow a subpar experience because it also might use the cloud to extend features or improve the game. If that's what the console is capable of, then that is your experience. So to turn it around is just hypocritical, unless you believe this about every single game out there that is different from platform to platform.
Coincidentally, I only see that line of thinking applied to the cloud talk. Apparently people conveniently ignore that this line of thinking can be applied to just about any game out there like PC versions, ports that are different, online multiplayer modes. It's only if a game uses the cloud that it becomes a subpar experience and a negative. Hmmm....
And the PS4 is capable of hooking up to a streaming cloud service. That's no different than any other device, That's the only information we have. If it's capable of server side hybrid-processing, show proof. Else stop trying to equate the two, because they are not the same. It's apples and oranges.
In one case you are taking advantage of both, the local hardware and the server, and basically combining the two for additional processing capabilities.
In the PS4's case, and that of any streaming cloud service, you are replacing your local hardware for the server. In order for it to be any advantage over the local hardware, that cloud service needs to be able to produce games that are superior to the local hardware in just about every way. At which point, your PS4 is just a paperweight with a controller attached to it. The final image is completely independent of what hardware you use to access that server. Whether you use your PS4, tablet or PS3 to access that streaming service, it simply won't matter.
This shows me that while you claim 17 years of gaining knowledge, you know jack-shit about video game history.
Xbox Live, hard drive, off the shelf hardware, standardized voice chat....and coming soon, cloud gaming. It's not even up for debate.
And imo, the big mistake is NOT bundling Move. That's not me spinning. I know it's hard to believe for some that there are negatives to the PS4, but there are. There is no spinning needed to say that it is not capable of playing certain games out of the box. It's just a reality and a fact just as it is a fact that it's $100 cheaper which is a positive. The PS4, out of the box, is not capable of playing games like Dance Central or Fantasia or Kinect Sports Rivals and that's a pretty big freaking negative for gamers who happen to enjoy those type of games. It's going to require an accessory, and suffer the fate of an accessory. That's its negative. No spinning needed, because it is what it is.
And no, the cloud isn't going to "magically" change the Xbox One for the better, it's going to do it using a powerful world wide network of Xeon-equipped servers. And some people's heads will explode when it turns out that's exactly what's going to happen.
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