I feel like Microsoft did this because the XONE kits aren't hooked up to the XBL servers yet, so they had to use this PC to emulate the power that is possible with cloud. They prob did this bcuz everyone know s that Ps4 is more powerful, and considering the box is &499, they needed to show potential, even before the Ps4 price announcement
Yeah... I dont know how to break this to people.... But the power of the cloud is pure bs with current internet speed technology.
It can be utilized for very specific time insensitive applications, and thats it. Microsoft boasting 40x power increases.... Are blatant pr lies.
They probably did this because they have a bunch of ps360 optimized engines and even coders, who cant possibly adjust to the change in architecture in time, and are using the powerful pc's to brute force unoptimized code.