Microsoft Azure & Sony team up, rumored also Nintendo

[A Black Falcon]

So, yesterday Sony and Microsoft announced that they had come to a deal to use some Microsoft Azure cloud streaming architecture on Sony's back-end.  I guess Sony is giving up on their own streaming tech, that they've been working on for so many years now... though apparently previously they were using Amazon streaming backend tech before, so they're going to be moving to MS despite being Microsoft's competitor.  It's a bit odd, but they're both huge companies so okay.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ation-team

This article says that Sony didn't tell their console division about this before signing the deal.  How nice of you, Sony...


Meanwhile, another rumor, following on one of various Microsoft + Nintendo rumors that have been floating around since Microsoft decided to start releasing Switch versions of some of their first-party titles (Cuphead, Hellblade, Xbox integration on Switch and such), says that Nintendo is also looking to use Azure tech on the Switch: https://www.resetera.com/threads/david-g...ce.117858/

So yeah, I guess for game consoles Azure is winning big over Google, when it comes to cloud streaming technology.  As for the MS + Nintendo stuff though, it'll be very interesting to  see if anything comes of this... E3 could be interesting (in a good way or bad), or not.  We'll see in a few weeks, E3 is only three weeks away!