This may work for Peggle, but there will be no running of Fallout 3 at 2650×1600 over this little gimmick. Not until the Internet speeds increase tenfold.

80ms? What if it takes me longer than that to route to one of their hubs? Are they going to send me 0 bytes of data? They must have some kind of magic packet carrier pigeon. It’s either that or they’re making exaggerated claims about what they can do.

Fallout 3 at 2650×1600.  That is a lot of pixels.  Think more like what most people are using: 720p or 1080p.  That is more feasible.  I’ve seen it work on http://www.streammygame.com from a normal computer on a LAN.

But Alaric still has a point.   This will work wonders for the people that generally have a low end PC that they bought for $3/400.  But the people that generally buy a descent PC or a High End Gaming rig will not benefit from hardware like this for years to come.  Games like World of Warcraft have such a large user base, because that game will run on those PC’s.  Albeit not wonderfully, but they can still play it.  Where games that are massive memory hogs, that are absolutely beautiful and are great games (like Fallout 3) or the soon to be released “Aion” only reach a limited audience because of the average computer in America.  This hardware/software package has merit, but not any time soon. It will all come down to the Internet Connection.  Europe as a whole is ahead of us in the bandwith capacity and the US invented the technology.  Silly isnt it?

Hmm lets see I can pay once for a game. Or I can pay monthly for a service that provides the game and probably have to pay an initial fee to get access to each game. Development is not free after all. Oh and how much does it cost to get their special router/modem thing to connect to their service. Also there website says you need their controller. How much does that cost? How many do you get or need to make use of their service. And we all know how most PC games play with a controller (horrible for those who haven’t tried). So at the end of the day you can purchase/rent a service that makes you have hardware, peripherals, and a fee for use. At least with a PC or console you still have the game to play, after buying it or should a company stop existing / supporting a product; here you just end up with nothing. Death of PC games/consoles or whatever this is not. It looks like a shiny version of gametap but with sixteen times the hassle. Oh yeah it requires you to have a broadband service. While that is common for most PC gamers, it is hardly a requirement to run a console (Xbox live withstanding) or many PC games for that matter. I give it a year of service before it goes the way of webtv.

Oh and MMO’s do not count as a comparison for this type of service. They are one type of video game that only a fraction of gamers are into (and then only have enough time to play one MMO at a time), require no extra equipment, and even with their monthly costs they usually run no more than fifteen dollars a month.

Most people are poopy heads then! 720p? 1080i/p? LOL! PC Gamers can play as rez beyond HD and shouldn’t expect any less from this product/service.

Also, I hope thats not the final design of the set-top box as it would anger me that it wasnt flat/modular (ie stackable)

It will be interesting to see what hackers and console crackers ultimately do to circumvent the system. As in what neat tricks they come up with. Like sticking a chip in a game console box for instance. Crazy!