Nvidia moves to the "Cloud"

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As Steve Jobs said in his later years cloud computing is the next step in computing. Instead of ordinary people managing their own complex machines they will be able to access a computer owned and ran by a large corporation. Well two well known companies have put idea like this into their business plan.
To give you an idea of what this would look like check out the company (which if you watch you tube you may have seen in an ad) Onlive. With the purchase of 1 game the company pays for the remote server which will act as the hardware the game runs on. Than you control the program/game from your computer with lag-less streaming. I found it quite incredible when I first tried it except for the fact that you are stuck at their resolution. http://www.onlive.com/
Now the GPU making company "Nvidia Wants to Stream Your Next GPU to You" (-https://t9k.me/1BD) Nvidia is known for owning a good portion of the Graphics card industry and now they are trying to bring their company to cloud computing. Nvidia talks about this on their website (https://t9k.me/1BE)
Some people claim this will not be good for the computer gaming industry while others step towards a simpler future anf gaming on the go. Will this technology be the "Next-Gen Experience" or a well known failure?
 
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But in all seriousness, cloud computing is an interesting concept, but is very severely limited right now because of limited bandwidth in the majority of households. The average download index is 10.45 Mbps, which can fairly easily stream a low to mid quality game, but would in no way be able to stream most of the games, especially at the higher graphics settings, that we here at Team9000 play, at least not to my knowledge.

Another major aspect of it is the fact that you can ONLY play the game when you have access to the internet, which I have strong feelings against. I believe that you should be able to play a single player game whenever you want, without having to be on the internet at all times, but I am getting into DRM issues now and should save that for another time.
 
I would love this idea if/when I get faster internet. I use Onlive on the occasion and I lag out in less than a half hour with my current internet. So the technology either needs adjustment or the technology is simply ahead of its time.

 
Cloud computing may be the next step, and it can deffinitely help in networking with others across the world. I think the idea of ONLY being able to access information or games or whatever else you may have only when you're connected to the Internet will be hang-up. Especially when it comes to games: I like my hard copy.
 
3vans said:
Well, this isn't going to work in Australia, and only Australians know why.
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I'm Australian.... and i still don't know why..


SteveTheSheep said:
As Steve Jobs said in his later years cloud computing is the next step in computing. Instead of ordinary people managing their own complex machines they will be able to access a computer owned and ran by a large corporation. Well two well known companies have put idea like this into their business plan.
To give you an idea of what this would look like check out the company (which if you watch you tube you may have seen in an ad) Onlive. With the purchase of 1 game the company pays for the remote server which will act as the hardware the game runs on. Than you control the program/game from your computer with lag-less streaming. I found it quite incredible when I first tried it except for the fact that you are stuck at their resolution. http://www.onlive.com/
Now the GPU making company "Nvidia Wants to Stream Your Next GPU to You" (-https://t9k.me/1BD) Nvidia is known for owning a good portion of the Graphics card industry and now they are trying to bring their company to cloud computing. Nvidia talks about this on their website (https://t9k.me/1BE)
Some people claim this will not be good for the computer gaming industry while others step towards a simpler future anf gaming on the go. Will this technology be the "Next-Gen Experience" or a well known failure?
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Im happy to say that my phone is compatible... BOO YA!
 
Beese said:
Internet, Australia.

Those 2 words should be enough.
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