Are there still gonna be worldwide servers?

[Mijin]

I work for AT&T, the largest telecommunications company in the world... And yes Datacenters do house servers but majority of the time it's just to improve latency or replication of data.

So I'm not sure who made you so un-informed on the topic of data centers.

anyhoo.. The severs will still remain cross-regional and cross-platform.. No the sky is not falling.

Well I invented the question mark, and I'm also the illegitimate child of the man who invented the internet, Al Gore. So I think its obvious now who is clearly the authority on the subject(me). Can you please explain to us how these magic centers are going to improve the latency issues of something that is a direct result of the distance from the client to the server? Do they have proton accelerators? That's probably it.

Well if that's the case I guess the only question left to resolve is this little tidbit:

Yoshida:

The players will have a choice of selecting a server based in their region or a server overseas

Lets talk about the meaning of this for a second. Even if this miracle data machine existed that you're talking about, and even if he didn't clearly say the word server there... Why would they need to give players the option to select their region? They could just detect it themselves and warp their connections to infinity and beyond!