NEW gaming machines tipped to launch in 2020 could be the last consoles you ever own. That’s according to experts who think consoles are about to be completely “replaced” by apps that live-stream v…
NEW gaming machines tipped to launch in 2020 could be the last consoles you ever own.
“There’s no question – in our view – that the cloud is the new console,” said Cristiano Amon, president of Qualcomm, a US tech firm that helps gadget giants build their systems.
It does this by running the games themselves on computers that sit in Google's data centres around the world, and then streaming the video output to your screen.
This sort of technology could eventually kill off gaming consoles for good, because all you'd need is a TV with game-streaming tech built in, and a controller to play withSony bought a game-streaming called OnLive, but shut it down in 2015 “You’ll be able to play a sophisticated game [on a phone] that you could only play on a $10,000 gaming PC.”It will work on any screen you want -- at launch, it is promised to work seamlessly on TVs, mobile phones, laptops and desktop computers.
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