what happens when you want to make your own game content or use the game engine? I can understand why console gamers would possibly make the jump but not really pc gamers. Also this means that no one will ever own a game again, the games arent yours they are just on the server, piracy would not be possible which is a plus…
We did some calculations here and the input lag would be around 2 ms extra, not nearly as bad as people would think. The biggest hogger will be sound and video. It could work, but there are so many variables that need to be taken into account. I wonder how they will compress the content from server to client in order for…
They need to stop NOW! I hate the idea of having everything tied to a 'cloud'. I want content that I can entertain myself with, without going online. I do not want to be tied to my internet connection. The people who control the internet, will eventually hold us hostage to our entertainment. This may sound a bit alarmist,…
I think it's a silly idea when you consider the cost of maintaining such a data center to crunch the processing. Why would a company bear all the financial risk of purchasing the hardware to sell time back to the user? It makes no economic sense to me. What are you going to charge for this service? Remember how slow the…
Roflness, I don't think what they are proposing works the way you are describing. I seriously doubt that they intend to set up a dedicated box for each user. (one CPU, one GPU per user) That would kind of defeat the purpose of what they are proposing. I'm still not clear on exactly how they expect to make this thing work…