On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:41:15 -0600, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 25-Mar-2009, at 14:15, Roger Howard wrote: >>> The talk around here about this is along the lines of "WTF are they >>> smoking?". Since details on the tech are scarce, there's some >>> withholding >>> of judgment - but even assuming everything else works without a >>> hitch, how >>> the heck do they address i/o lag when everything you do has to >>> roundtrip to >>> a remote box that's actually running the game. >> >> >> Yep, lots of questions about this. If it wasn't someone with some >> cred like Perlman, I'd simply dismiss this as a lot of marketspeak in >> search of VC. >> >> A 1MB plugin to play high-end games on a low-end machine? >> >> He's smoking crack, isn't he? > > Well, given his deep pockets, I suspect it's something of a finer > vintage. > > Seriously, there's almost no chance this will be anything but: > > - TOTAL vaporware > or > - Something completely different, less interesting, and much less > useful, > but which they will try to sell as a v1.0 which they'll promise will > grow > into something closer to what they promised, eventually. > > Why not just a simple, trimmed back PC, a Steam Appliance for people > who > just own PCs to play games (like me). Bonus points for making the GPU > modular, so it can be upgraded, though as an appliance if they can > get the > specs just about right so people only want to upgrade every 2-4 > years it'd > still be competitive with consoles. Could they do it for $400 retail?
For some reason I keep thinking of the Game Network that tried to do TV Games a few years back. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
