http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/10/27/pc-games-on-sony-ps3-using-game-streams-bad-for-xbox-360/ Looks like the ps3 will be running a certain distro of linux , and will stream PC games without lag. Gear of War on my ps3...that'll be hilarious.
I don't know what technology they "have", but I would say the chances of them being able to run a modern Windows game on a PS3 Linux distro with acceptable performance are approximately 0%.
"Currently compatible with Windows XP and Vista, the firm claims it will work with all games based on Microsoft's DirectX8, 9 and 10, including new releases such as FIFA 08 and BioShock."
This isn't going to be what it's being billed as. The hardware still has to be able to run it, it's just streaming the code to a machine. In order to run Crysis, the machine will still need to be able to run DX10 and have the specs to support Crysis. Even worse, the programs will likely need to go through a layer of emulation as DX is a MS API and the PS3 OS will be a version of Linux.
Not many current games will be able to run on the PS3 through this.
This is a scam, unless the reinvent the entire Internet backbone at the cost of several 100 billion dollars. There is not enough bandwith to "stream" a PC game made in the past 10 years.
Highly improbable. You would have to emulate an x86 based computer to do that. WINE can partially emulate Windows, and it runs on x86 architecture. Nah, this seems more like a pipe dream than anything concrete, otherwise Xbox 360 would be the first to get streaming PC games, due to x86 and XNA.
Cool, thi smeans people can enjoy Crysis for thousands less.Re5ident_Evil
you still need the pc. you realize this doesn't mean you play pc games on a ps3. the ps3 just acts like a converter to display on your tv. i don't see the purpose unless you don't have a vga port on the back of your tv but have a ps3. that's on expensive converter which a $200 buck linux pc can do the same.
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