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PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:51 pm 
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It was announced today that the set top box will retail for $99, is HD, has WiFi, will eventually have surround sound and is launching with 23 titles.
It's heavily hinted it will also stream movies and other content.

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If you haven't heard about the console/service, it's basically gaming in the cloud. They have massive farms of servers stuffed full of GPU's that render each frame of the game you're playing and ship it to you over the intertubes. This removes the need to do any local processing so the unit only uses 6 watts under full load.
The games are either bought or rented.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/onli ... -hands-on/

I have a friend who knows several developers and executives there (and I'm visiting him for Thanksgiving so I get a pre-release hands on test).

Pretty cool stuff but they're coming out against Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo....not an easy thing to do, but possibly the future of console gaming.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:05 am 
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I think eventually everything will be digitalized in console gaming, but it won't hold a candle to PS3 or 360 at all.

It really all depends on the major game makers buying into this. Will EA, RockStar, Activision, Harmonoix, and the other major game developers try this out or will only third party type developers make these games?

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I was actually part of the beta for this, using my laptop. I really hope they worked out the issues I reported (I only reported stuff that was different that what I'd experience on xBox or PS3)...

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