Thin computing for gamers

[zo1d]

This looks interesting...

http://www.onlive.com/service/cloudgaming

Powerful Gaming Made Easy

* Connect to OnLive with your PC, Mac® or TV and play games instantly
* Games run over the Internet from state-of-the-art OnLive game data centers
* Controller action and game play are relayed up and down the Internet at blindingly fast speeds
* Enjoy instant game play on your PC, Mac® or TV. No high-end hardware required

 

[zo1d]

It's the latency that's the killer.

100ms round trip for control input would be annoying as hell to play on.

This would seem to be the biggest draw back to this concept of gaming, although not sure how much bandwidth would be needed to update the users console if playing at a high resolution?

However if the above 2 issues could be resolved surely this concept of playing games remotely has allot to offer, for example you'd never need to upgrade and combined with the electricity saving (a thin terminal would use a small fraction of the energy of high end gaming pc) could potentially save allot of money!

Of course for many people on this forum (my self included) that's part of the fun as we enjoy the upgrading, modding, overclocking etc