MLB 12 The Show Hands-On Preview - Day 1 (PSNation)

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Quote: Originally Posted by jkra0512

Maybe a better way of visualizing it is downloading a song from your friend's computer using the internet would be much slower than downloading that same song from a dedicated server from the record company. Before, we had to rely on our friend's connection to the internet to gauge how reliable and quick the game played online head-to-head (other computers connected to their network took bandwidth away from the PS3 and slows the overall connection down.) Now, with dedicated servers from SCEA, the connection is more stable and completely dedicated to the game you're playing and not being slowed down by other outside influences, as such other computers connected to the network sucking away bandwidth.

Not to be a downer but this isn't necessarily true though. If your opponent's network to the dedicated server is much slower than yours (to the server), it's still likely the slower one is going to be the bottleneck.

I transfer a large amount of files between computers all the time, and in general, P2P is still much faster than having another server in between.

I'm curious what aspect of online gaming is going to be improved by the new scheme though.