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A service that could the future of all video gaming. While it sounds and looks great on paper, I highly doubt that it will succeed in real life. I'm sure that the videos of it's service that we saw were all very real and could be practical (as it was possible to even show this tech) as only maybe 20 people at most were connected to the server which was located on site. Think about it for a second. This service is basically STREAMING audio/video and has a low bandwidth (quick) controller settings. Controller settings that are questionably as good or BETTER than the controller that is hooked up to your system (be it computer or console). We are talking about a game service that has to constantly stream video and will also have basically a "zero ping" (if you will) on your controller. The server that is actually running the games could be hundreds of miles away (and several router jumps in between) yet the response time of the controllers rivals the response time as if it were hooked up to the direct server? Bullocks I say. While I don't deny that this actually COULD work, however once the service starts to get popular and more and more people sign up and sign on the service will become bogged down. It's one thing to setup a dedicated server to a game as all the graphical processing happens ON YOUR COMPUTER. You know, the box in front of you, not more than maybe 5 feet away? However with certain cities and broadband companies upgrading to fiber optics this service might be viable in the distant future. A similar service of this you can already use on your computer and have been able to for quite a while now. It's called remote desktop. You access a computer from another location and while it's usually used to monitor what's going on the host computer, you can take control of it using the computer you are on. Like I said, it's not that this service doesn't exist, but to make it the 'console/pc gaming' killer of tomorrow is not going to happen. Too much upgrading of current infrastructure needs to happen not to mention the costs of servers and maintenance. You'd need some major backing with really deep pockets that don't care about any return of investment. Even if proverbial Mr Moneybags were to step up and empty his bank accounts into this project, in order to offset the cost of all this, the monthly fees for signing up for said service would have to start at around $100 a month.