The Future of Kernels, Operating Systems, and "Tech"

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
One of my predictions came true (a little early though), I predicted video games will be streamed on-line so it becomes hardware independent.

here you are: http://gamespot.com/features/6206623/index.html

Edit:http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/0...ame.console/index.html

So basically my theory of devolution is right.

Heh, it hasn't come true, and it won't. There was a nice discussion on slashdot about this; for a myriad of reasons it'll never see the light of day. Numero uno being latency both to the server, encoding frames, back to the box, and decoding the image.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: Aberforth
One of my predictions came true (a little early though), I predicted video games will be streamed on-line so it becomes hardware independent.

here you are: http://gamespot.com/features/6206623/index.html

Edit:http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/0...ame.console/index.html

So basically my theory of devolution is right.

Heh, it hasn't come true, and it won't. There was a nice discussion on slashdot about this; for a myriad of reasons it'll never see the light of day. Numero uno being latency both to the server, encoding frames, back to the box, and decoding the image.

That will be taken care of when they tie up with broadband service providers, I think this technology makes use of buffering to pre-load static data before the game is streamed.

 

[soccerballtux]

Again, see the article. It's vaporware. Too much money in the system sloshing around, leading to investments like this.