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Now Google Might Make a Game Console and Game-Streaming Service (fastcompany.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Google could try to get serious about gaming with a rumored console and game-streaming service, according to the Information. From a report: The service, codenamed "Yeti," would stream modern games over the internet instead of processing them on locally, allowing them to run weaker hardware such as Google's Chromecast dongles. Several other companies, including Nvidia and Sony, already offer their own game-streaming services, but the problems are always the same: Publishers tend to support these services halfheartedly or not at all, and even with an excellent internet connection, the experience isn't as responsive or dependable as a powerful home console. It's unclear how Google might solve those problems, but the company is reportedly considering a holiday 2017 launch.

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  1. Good luck! by jbmartin6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    the company is reportedly considering a holiday 2017 launch

    Simply amazing, not only is Google just re-doing what others have already done, they are trying to go back in time and do it at the same time!

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    1. Re:Good luck! by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Funny

      They're just going to use the Google Time Machine. The only problem is that they haven't totally worked out the bugs just yet.

      "Ok, Google. Take me ten years back."

      "Taking you to the Triassic."

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  2. It's not the game companies that will half-ass it by bigdady92 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google itself will rocket through development like an adderall fueled college developer mainlining 4 loko's (blue raspberry old school of course) roll it out with maybe 60% of it done, get a few publisher's on board with sweet deals and throw tons of money at them, and users login for their Beta (it's always BETA) service.

    Then the adrenaline haze wears off, Google actually has to support clients, wrangle in contracts from publisher's to put more games on the system, figure out how to get around bandwidth caps that your lovely ISP's enforce on you, roll out development updates while slashing the team and budget until 18 months later Google walks away for the next OOOHHH SHINEY! thing and we are left with a stillborn service that makes the Phantom console look like Steve Jobs christened it from Heaven.

    Points of Reference:
    Gmail
    Hangouts
    G+
    Whatever their Photo Service is
    Google Glasses
    ChromeOS
    etc
    etc
    etc

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