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NJ5 said:

@alpha_dk: Actually, in the special case of gaming, the arguments against dumb terminals are even stronger than you portrayed them. Technical limitations abound when you try to stream something as interactive as a game.

No matter whether people want to or not, the speed of light will not increase to accomodate a model where your game is being run in a computer which is thousands of kilometers away, while maintaining the desired property of fast response time. It can work for poker and chess games, but anything as interactive as most of the games which are played on consoles just can't work well on such a model.

 


 I agree, I just didn't want to make my post any longer than it already was, and was trying to keep it as non-specific to gaming as I could because the article was about convergence devices.  Thank you for bringing it up, though



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