Google prepares video game streaming service, writes The Information, citing its sources. By citing "people familiar with the case," the newspaper reports that the company is preparing a subscription service for an "on demand" gaming service, a project codenamed Yeti. There is still nothing confirmed and clear yet. The platform on which such a service will be offered is also not known. One version is that it can be done using the Chromecast digital media player. The other thing is that Google is working on its own console - a rumor that has appeared and disappears for several years now.
In support of the hearing that the company is working on some kind of gaming project, it is certainly the recent attraction of Phil Harrison, a veteran of the video game industry, one of the people responsible for PlayStation's release, who spent 16 years in Sony's ranks, and then a key Microsoft Manager and Vice President of the Xbox Unit.
GamesIndustry, which cites The Information, recalled that games streaming service projects were still years ago, but they never found their niche. An example is OnLive. Launched in 2009 with fanfares, the service does not seem like enough attention. The idea of a game stream directly to the cloud computer where everything the user needs is a computer, a robust internet connection and subscription are advertised long enough, but the problems have prevented OnLive from breaking through. In an interview with GamesIndustry, OnLive boss Bruce Grove shares the main obstacle - the operating cost needed to support the service and, of course, returns.
"Essentially, you take the power on a computer and put it in the cloud. If you want to make a PS3 game in the cloud, it builds a huge number of servers to mimic PS3. If you want 50,000 people to play at the same time, you'll need 50,000 machines for that. It's just unrealistic. If you have 10,000 players at the same time in peak loads, you'll need 10,000 cloud-based graphics processors. And what do these GPUs do in the next time? You just sit there and do nothing to make a profit, "he explains.
Taking into account Google's cloud infrastructure, this is unlikely to be a problem, but we still do not know anything, and we will have to wait for Yeti to become a reality.
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