OTOY,TechCrunch,mobile,GTA IV,cloud computing Playing GTA 4 in your browser

Playing GTA 4 in your browser

posted by cybrbeast

1 month 3 weeks ago • 712 views

tags: OTOY, TechCrunch, mobile, GTA IV, cloud computing

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GTA 4 is rendered externally and being played through a browser. This means that you could play this or Crysis on your iPhone, or anything, as long as it supports html (edit: and javascript).

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The future of video games, that is. Once it gets going, at decent connection latencies, this will eliminate game piracy, the need to upgrade your machine every 2 years, the need to physically own a game to be able to play it and so on.

Also, adds to Google's Chrome OS concept, making stuff happen in the browser.

written by demon_ix

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^Latency will be a crippling issue for most people for a while yet, I think. Maybe forever for some. Can't get around the old speed of light.

written by dag

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Some games will never be playable this way, but I could see certain single player games working with this. Anything where you require precision is right out.

written by gwiz665

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It's not "all using HTML" as he states; it's using Javascript. I would not be too surprised to find older computers that still can't keep up.

written by xxovercastxx

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Up vote for GTA4, down vote for cloud computing. This is such a fail product for gamers.

written by teebeenz

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>> ^dag:
^Latency will be a crippling issue for most people for a while yet, I think. Maybe forever for some. Can't get around the old speed of light.

The guy in the video already said that latency isn't such a big problem. OnLive is another such service that is almost ready. Here is a video demonstration which also has low lag.
Maybe for high skill FPS the latency would be noticeable. But at a certain point you would have to choose between photo realistic games with a latency of 25-50ms (if it works out well) or worse looking games on your own computer.

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