Yeah, that is the future right there. The high requirements on video gaming are due to a complete shift in the approach. Instead of the local machine rendering everything, you are basically just throwing pure video at the end device. All game processing is on the server end.
Games are the vanguard; the rest will follow suit. Until you no longer have a computer in your house, it's just all streamed video from the cloud. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Tyler Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] And you thought gamers were grumpy about Latency Before PlayStation 4 has been doing this for at least a year already, and I'd wager that the number of PS4 users on your network vastly outnumbers the Nvidia Shield users. -- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:59:06 PM Subject: [AFMUG] And you thought gamers were grumpy about Latency Before http://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-launches-geforce-now-game-streaming-service No more Pesky Downloading games to your console, use the 'Netflix' of Video Games... "To use GeForce NOW, you�ll need to meet a number of requirements. First, you�ll need an NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV, SHIELD portable, or SHIELD tablet (with the latest software updates installed) and a SHIELD-approved 5GHz router. The latest SHIELD Hub app from the Google Play store must be installed. And your broadband connection must offer download speeds of at least 12Mb/s. 20Mb/s is recommended for 720p / 60 FPS quality, and 50Mb/s is recommended for 1080p / 60 FPS. You must also have a 60ms or lower ping time to a GeForce NOW server, though 40ms or lower is recommended. " I like how they refer to that as 'Broadband Connection' Sounds more like DIA to me, since it's continuous sustained traffic. I'm guessing buffering or caching video games doesn't work well.
