Quake Live and Cloud Computing [Updated]

[Bluntknife]

Recently the launch of the Quake Live open beta, has got me thinking.
Is this the begining of cloud computing as a gaming platform?

Cloud Computing:

Spoiler

The use of server side resources in order to run apps on your local machine.
The cloud is refered to as the internet.

I beleive we are going to see more games modded to run within a browser.
One day we might even be running Crysis on a netbook, through the use of of the cloud.

Cloud gaming will bring back Pc's as the platform of choice for the masses to game on.
But not as mammoth, glowing box under your desk, but as a small laptop or netbook which you'll be using to play Crysis within your browser.

Cloud gaming should also remove all dependencies of operating systems.
No longer will our Linux and Mac brothers be forced into playing 10 year old games through the use of Cedega.
The gamers will be able to choose what system you run, not chosen for you by the Microsoft overlords!

Wether or not Cloud gaming takes hold I can not tell for certain but I do suspect that more will try what iD has with Quake.

[Update]

I just found this in my random browsing.

Maybe highend browser games aren't as far away as we thought

http://www.gamezine.co.uk/news/game-types/shooter/gears-could-be-web-based-game-in-mere-weeks-if-microsoft-approves-$1273172.htm

 

[beddo]

This technology has been around for a while. I wasn't very impressed by Quake live. I find it unlikely that we will see Crysis or games like that on notebooks one day.

Quake Live hasn't proven itself as being truly viable yet. I doubt that people who like hardcore games will bother playing them in their browsers when much better games are available on dedicated machines.

 

[Erana]

This technology has been around for a while. I wasn't very impressed by Quake live. I find it unlikely that we will see Crysis or games like that on notebooks one day.

Quake Live hasn't proven itself as being truly viable yet. I doubt that people who like hardcore games will bother playing them in their browsers when much better games are available on dedicated machines.

Oh, in the future, Crysis will undoubtably look like a novel oldie.
But there are hardcore fans of any game. Especially for a game involving the word, "Quake."

 

[beddo]

This technology has been around for a while. I wasn't very impressed by Quake live. I find it unlikely that we will see Crysis or games like that on notebooks one day.

Quake Live hasn't proven itself as being truly viable yet. I doubt that people who like hardcore games will bother playing them in their browsers when much better games are available on dedicated machines.

Oh, in the future, Crysis will undoubtably look like a novel oldie.
But there are hardcore fans of any game. Especially for a game involving the word, "Quake."

I don't think that hardcore games open to everyone will appeal to a significantly wide audience.