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WoW On an iPad Via Gaikai

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-doesn't-even-look-like-english dept.

Gametap writes "If cloud gaming works for enough genres, it can't help but find popularity. Even just a game like WoW might be enough to make it happen, and Gaikai's Dave Perry posted a picture of doing just that on an iPad. So is it the future or not? Could somebody make a tablet with nothing more than a screen, battery, network port, and video decoder, and have it be a good gaming platform? Will it change the mobile, PC, console, and TV world as we know it? Lots of questions, lots of skepticism, lots of players and money being invested — but one thing is for sure: it will be very interesting to see how this evolves."

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  1. Re:Meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is not WOW running on an iPhone, it's someone remoting into a PC running WoW.

  2. Re:Meaningless. by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    WoW does not run on the iPhone. If it was, you wouldn't be able to zoom the UI; It would be running at the native resolution (and horribly blocky). This is a VNC connection to another computer running WoW.

    Hell, you can see the tessellation when he scrolls around the login screen. You get that from breaking down the screen into quarters and transporting these sections separately to reduce apparent lag (compared to rendering the whole scene at once, as running WoW directly on the iPhone would do).

    In short, FAKE.

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  3. Article inaccurate by street_astrologist · · Score: 2, Informative

    TFA describes WoW as "PC-only". I think he might have meant "PC hardware-only", since the game's been available for Macintosh since launch.