Nvidia Sees Video Game Streaming as a Major Gaming Platform in Several Years.

xbitlabs.com ^ | 09/25/2012 11:36 PM | Anton Shilov

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Cloud Gaming May Kill Video Game Consoles, Says Nvidia

Cloud video game streaming services are pretty widespread these days and are definitely a topic that is considered by various companies, including game publishers, rental services and even telecommunication providers. However, the technology yet has to be widely adopted by the end-users. According to Nvidia Corp., in five years time cloud video game streaming may become very significant and in ten may even dominant way of playing games.

"We will see [cloud gaming] gain momentum throughout next year. But if I look out five years, I think it could be a significant portion of the way people play games. [...] There is still a gap to that [GeForce] GTX experience for the hardcore gamer. I think it will be 10 years before we have to worry about [hardcore gamers] switching over to the cloud. They are pretty particular about their gaming experience. I do not think we have to worry too much about that right now," said Phil Eisler, the general manager of GeForce Grid cloud gaming at Nvidia, in an interview with VentureBeat web-site.

[wastedyears]

I’m a hardcore gamer, but I prefer the PS3 over PC; I’ve tried using a mouse and keyboard to game, and it just doesn’t work for me. Where does this put the millions of people like me that don’t want to spend $1250+ on a computer just to play video games?

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[KarlInOhio]

Where does this put the millions of people like me that don’t want to spend $1250+ on a computer just to play video games?

I don't see anything which prevents a console from being the gaming terminal rather than a full PC. I think one problem they need to solve is how to handle different bandwidths, but then Youtube and Netflix seem to have that same problem. Gracefully downgrade the graphical quality rather than introduce buffering if the user can't keep up with the data needed. If I only have a 1 Mbps DSL line, then I should get a low resolution picture which flows nicely rather than a high res one which starts and stops often.

[Baseballguy]

I am looking for investors.

What I plan on doing is changing how the content is provided to the home or business.

The time of having a cabinet full of converters will be over.

Would it be nice to have one device that does everything.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think the chip makers are staying way ahead of the bandwidth suppliers....

I don't think cloud computing can drop the latency,...fast enough.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’ve tried using a mouse and keyboard to game, and it just doesn’t work for me.

Specialty controllers have been available from the beginning of the PC. Even the original IBM PC had a joystick port available.

[Jonty30]

As long as there is a risk that a company will stop supporting their games, in the middle of me playing them, I will never stream games. That would be like watching a movie and have it quit half-way through it.

[erod]

You could use a XBOX 360 controller they make them for the PC. But I’m like you I prefer consoles no need to upgrade and less hassle.

[discostu]

Who needs to spend $1250? I’ve got a 6 year old machine that was $600 when I bought it that can still run most of the current games smooth and shiny with graphics settings on high. And there’s plenty of gamepad/ joysticks available so if you don’t want to KBM it you don’t have to.

Of course you can stream on all the game boxes too.

[catnipman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The PC is dead too, replaced by credit-card sized devices, and internal combustion automobiles are dead too, replaced by big golf carts. Oh yeah, and I just read credit cards are dead too.