http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cl...of-an-eye-with-nvidia-geforce-grid-2012-05-15 "the future will acost us at ball flattening speed"..Thomas Edison.
Despite what they're saying, latency will still make this highly undesirable for most of the world. The only reason this is so attractive to industry is that with this model they can control everything.
Exactly. Why do they want to move everything to a cloud system when the hardware available today is perfectly capable of keeping up with the gaming software available? Anyone besides me notice that in that huge assortment of quotes no one mentioned a specific positive for gamers besides that fact that people with lower level machines will be able to play? This is a ploy to change the dynamic of how revenue flows in the industry, and nothing more. If you want to play baseball for instance, but only one or a few corporations own all of the bats and baseballs in the world, then guess who you are paying a monthly fee to in order to have use of the bats and balls. It looks like NVIDIA is making a quick grab for all the balls in the world to me. Development companies will most likely love the idea. It eliminates a bunch of their overhead by wiping out hardware support, manufacturing and packaging operations and allows them to focus solely on development (marketing is already done primarily by contractors and consultants for smaller software development companies anyway). I suspect that this will in fact revolutionize the gaming industry, but not necessarily in a way that any of us will like. The good news is that changing a market this dramatically will likely take several years even after the technology is viable, and even if NVIDIA's hardware is good enough to do it I'm betting the networking/communications infrastructure in the vast majority of the world simply isn't good enough to make it viable yet anyway. Perhaps I am a bit too pessimistic, but this sounds like the opposite of exciting news to me.
Wish I could figure out how. In the old days you had peer-to-peer networking and decentralised event detection but that's going to be tricky to implement on a glorified dumb terminal, and it comes with its own set of problems.
It wont hit mainstream for another few years, but I'm betting it will at some point. It almost seems inevitable. You can probably view the next gen of "traditional" consoles as also being the last.
Quoted for truth. Anyone remember when Sega actually made gaming systems and not just games? The console is not profitable for the companies anyway. They sell them at or just barely above cost, because the money is in the games, not the systems. It is actually a rather logical evolution for the console gaming industry. Unfortunately, it also suggests that they are going to try to turn the hardware into a profit driver (its only good business), and once they get all the best game developers on board they are probably going to get exclusive distribution arrangements, so you'll have no choice but to pay if you want the best games. Thats my daily dose of doom & gloom for you.