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Sunday, March 29, 2009

OnLive To Kill Consoles?

A new internet service that allows you to play games on your TV via a set top box connected to the net or from a low-end PC or laptop could mean the end of consoles as we know them today. The service works as a real cloud computing application, in which the games do not run locally but on servers, with the audio and graphics output being streamed via the set top box to the TV. So no more downloading, no more buying games from the store and maybe no more piracy. No mention of how this will scale, because they will need some fairly meaty servers to be able to cope with all the demand. But if it works then it will prove that streaming anything over the net is possible and give the whole cloud computing concept a boost. More from the BBC here.

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