Gaming via video stream in Flash

Here is something that I thought rather interesting, the ability to game from your computer without installing anything but the flash player and a web browser.

Gaikai Streaming Worlds

Another link to a blog entry on it

Very interesting but I find myself wondering how on earth they are going to make it run for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of users. Those are big streams coming out of their servers and the computing power required to run the game as it is with just maybe even 5 users must be pretty high.. I know my computer used to run hard on some shooters with the graphics turned up high. I don't play much at all anymore but I'd be willing to give this service a try if given the chance. Seems like a good idea. No installing on your computer, and a wide variety of games to play. Even photoshop in that demo!

All running in the flash player.. makes you wonder how the flash gaming community will get along with that because you just can't make flash games that can even come close to competing with "real games". I wonder if/when they release a production version of this if it will have an impact on game creators for flash. Will be interesting to follow.

Posted by Graeme at July 8, 2009 04:15 AM