Dave Perry Shows Off Cloud-Based Gaikai Game Service
Dave Perry has unveiled details and a gameplay video of his cloud-based game service Gaikai, demonstrating its ability to run a wide array of games in a basic browser window over distances of several hundred miles.
Perry, who in his spare time is the chief creative officer at his blog [http://www.acclaim.com/].
Perry says Gaikai will require no software installation whatsoever; the games in the video ran with nothing more than the latest version of Windows Vista [http://www.getfirefox.com/] system. Data in the demo is traveling a round-trip distance of roughly 800 miles, giving him a 21-second ping over a "home cable connection in a home" from a regular data center. "Our bandwidth is mostly sub-one megabit across all games," Perry wrote. "Works with Wifi, works on netbooks with no 3D card, etc."
He also couldn't resist taking a subtle jab at OnLive [http://www.onlive.com/], which is generally viewed as the front-runner in the cloud-based gaming race. "We don't claim to have 5,000 pages of patents, we didn't take 7 years, and we do not claim to have invented 1 millisecond encryption and custom chips," he wrote. "As you can see, we don't need them, and so our costs will be much less.
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"Our goals are really simple, to remove all the friction between hearing about a game and trying it out, to help reduce the cost of gaming, to grow video game audiences, to raise the revenue that publishers and developers can earn, and (most importantly) to make games accessible everywhere," he continued. "If the iPhone App store [http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/] has taught us anything, when you make it easy to check things out, you get a billion downloads."
Among the games shown in the video are Adobe [http://games.ea.com/prostreet/locale_selector.jsp] and other companies look at Gaikai as a "potential model for software."
Perry said Gaikai is currently seeking closed beta testers, particularly among people who live in California. More information and a sign-up form for the test program can be found at gaikai.com [http://www.gaikai.com].
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Dave Perry has unveiled details and a gameplay video of his cloud-based game service Gaikai, demonstrating its ability to run a wide array of games in a basic browser window over distances of several hundred miles.
Perry, who in his spare time is the chief creative officer at his blog [http://www.acclaim.com/].
Perry says Gaikai will require no software installation whatsoever; the games in the video ran with nothing more than the latest version of Windows Vista [http://www.getfirefox.com/] system. Data in the demo is traveling a round-trip distance of roughly 800 miles, giving him a 21-second ping over a "home cable connection in a home" from a regular data center. "Our bandwidth is mostly sub-one megabit across all games," Perry wrote. "Works with Wifi, works on netbooks with no 3D card, etc."
He also couldn't resist taking a subtle jab at OnLive [http://www.onlive.com/], which is generally viewed as the front-runner in the cloud-based gaming race. "We don't claim to have 5,000 pages of patents, we didn't take 7 years, and we do not claim to have invented 1 millisecond encryption and custom chips," he wrote. "As you can see, we don't need them, and so our costs will be much less.
""Our goals are really simple, to remove all the friction between hearing about a game and trying it out, to help reduce the cost of gaming, to grow video game audiences, to raise the revenue that publishers and developers can earn, and (most importantly) to make games accessible everywhere," he continued. "If the iPhone App store [http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/] has taught us anything, when you make it easy to check things out, you get a billion downloads."
Among the games shown in the video are Adobe [http://games.ea.com/prostreet/locale_selector.jsp] and other companies look at Gaikai as a "potential model for software."
Perry said Gaikai is currently seeking closed beta testers, particularly among people who live in California. More information and a sign-up form for the test program can be found at gaikai.com [http://www.gaikai.com].
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