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? _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
