[jaymzcampbell]

This is very much what OnLive where doing a few years back - I had a subscription for a while but never used it as much to justify it. They would have some problems from time to time but for a casual gamer like myself that only had an ancient and linux-only laptop it worked surprisingly well.

They're since defunct, Sony picked up their assets end of April this year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive).

[bduerst]

It's essentially thin client gaming, right?

With the roll out of more fiber networks, this could be a reality (assuming you still had enough host locations to reduce latency).

[vojant]

I have never using OnLive, did they support playing via browser? Browser solution is key to this as almost every device support modern browsers capable of ruining OP solution.

[xmodem]

They had Windows and OSX apps, as well as an iOS app. Onlive started in a time before browsers had the features needed to make this possible.

[WorldWideWayne]

The browser is the key to what? Doing stuff in the browser?

It's certainly not the key to getting a game on every device. I can't think of one browser game that people play on their devices. Even Words with Friends, the simplest 2D game you could think of, is not used from a browser - most people run the native app for that.

[vojant]

>It's certainly not the key to getting a game on every device. I can't think of one browser game that people play on their devices. Even Words with Friends, the simplest 2D game you could think of, is not used from a browser - most people run the native app for that.

Because of performance, but streaming games solve this problem. Full screen browser wouldn't be any different than native game client.