End of the console?????

Rroff · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:10

From a bit of digging it looks like its launching with 480p @ 5Mbit 25fps and a lower resolution for 2Mbit/s which I'd assume is something of the order of 320x240, they are quoting sub 80ms ping times... but I'm not sure how they are going to pull off that miracle and even then its well into the region of noticeable input lag for anything but very casual gamers.

mattyj1085 · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:18

320x240. nice.

quakeworld multiplayer might just about work in 320x200

V4NT0M · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:22

This will not replace consoles, mainly because of HD... Or lack thereof, it will probably be great for those people who buy those 8 game in 1 console things.

Ross1234 · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:24

it says they have a new compression technology...

Fido McNasty · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:26

arknor said:
double the lag for twice the displeasure aswell imagine using that if the servers were in america.

upto 0.5second input lag = epic fail

My first thoughts almost exactly. Cloud was a more intriguing and effective sounding plan to me lately.

5punk3monk3y · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:36

http://www.onlive.com/

hour and a half to go until I bin my 360

Rroff · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:37

Hmm I might have this wrong, 2Mbit may be the 480p option... in which case I don't know what res the 5Mbit option is.

arknor · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:39

5punk3monk3y said:
http://www.onlive.com/

hour and a half to go until I bin my 360

one hour and a little over a half before you get it back out of the bin again

Margaret · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:43

Load of rubbish, good luck playing anything competitive on that.

V4NT0M · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:52

The application where this will be useful is mobile phone's and devices, I saw a nice demonstration of interactive xbox 360 style graphics on a mobile phone.

It could also work very well with turn based or RTS games, as long as the cursor is rendered locally it would be okish, again though not something replace consoles, I don't think.

Shamikebab · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:54

Skyfall said:
The application where this will be useful is mobile phone's and devices, I saw a nice demonstration of interactive xbox 360 style graphics on a mobile phone.

Surely that would cost a fortune in data charges though?

V4NT0M · 25 Mar 2009 at 01:07

Depends on the network/deal, quite a few operators have "unlimited" bundles now.

Shamikebab · 25 Mar 2009 at 01:18

True. I would imagine they would introduce some clauses pretty damn quickly if such a service started getting popular though!

Rroff · 25 Mar 2009 at 02:00

"unlimited" on most mobile operators is 200-1000Mb... and you get charged MASSIVE fees for going over that in some cases as much as £1.5 a MB. You'd soon eat your useage allowance.

V4NT0M · 25 Mar 2009 at 02:22

starfighter · 25 Mar 2009 at 07:09

It will work once we have very fast internet connections, graphics cards seem to be increasing in speed faster so....

Try playing agame using streammygame.com or vnc. this isn't going to be much better.