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General: Walmart Partnership for Cloud Gaming
SBFord
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Walmart has inked a deal with Gaikai Digital to bring a new streaming games service to the 'big box' store giant. Walmart will pay Gaikai based on user minutes in game. Gaikai is a cloud-based gaming service where players are not required to download the games directly to their computer but rather 'click and play'.
Gaikai is an open cloud gaming platform that lets gamers play the latest games (like Mass Effect 2 and Sims 3) instantly on any internet-connected device. No game downloads or installers. Just click and play.
Gaikai accelerates digital revenue growth with a cloud-based distribution platform that powers the entire lifecycle of your direct-to-consumer business, from discovery to delivery.
Gaikai's gaming cloud is the world's only open high-performance interactive entertainment network for gamers, publishers, retailers, and affiliates. We've established 24 data centers in 12 countries, and we're adding more all the time. We give publishers, retailers and affiliates more qualified customers, faster. And we deliver awesome game experiences through a stream, or via our patent-pending perceptive downloader technology.
Read more about Gaikai Digital.
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sounds like Onlive. Another cloud gaming platform. Would have to see it is action to see if it is better than Onlive is.
hmm... can't really tell where this is gonna go...
If you can't afford a computer to run modern games then you really don't have that much to spend on videogames right?
That leaves people that want to play on devices... stuff like tablets, netbooks and smartphones. But most of those platforms are controlled pretty tightly.
Can't say I wish Walmart any sort of success anyways.
OnLive is all about trying/buying games from them and playing them over the cloud. Gaikai on the other hand is suppose to be nothing more then playing demo's over the cloud. If you like the game then you buy it from whatever company that makes it.
If you demo Sims 3 over it then you decide to buy it it's suppose to take you to EA to buy it, etc. Last I heard you wouldn't be able to play full versions on Gaikai just the demo's. Unless they change this by the time it's out.
You're joking right? Its one thing to go and buy a computer that could cost anywhere from $500 for a lower end computer and $2000+ for a higher end and being able to play the same games you can play on them on a 4-5 year old computer. This is a game changer....if the price is right and the quality is good...you can buy the cheapest computer and run the highest quality games. Also if you buy tablet or have a phone you can use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, hook it up to a big monitor or TV and play on them. Sky's the limit.
I wouldn't doubt it if the next round of consoles (especially from Microsoft...probably not the Wii U from Nintendo, not sure about Sony) will have something like this built in. Maybe not only streaming games, I think they'll have disks, or thumb drive or some way other than streaming, but I think there will be some kind of streaming. Maybe if you buy the game you can run the downloadable content streaming, or if you don't want to buy a game you have the option to rent it through streaming, or games that are just downloadable will have an option to stream if you have a good enough connection.
There is one other company thats doing this (OTOY) and I haven't heard anything about them. I really thought I'd hear about them before Gaikai since they seem to be tight with AMD.