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Yokijirou on 31 May 2011
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Viper1 said:
Yokijirou said:

Only thing I could actually see being streamable would be the Virtual Console games. Remember the Sega Channel? Yeah that was Pre-DubStep. (before 1999 but WELL before 2011) and it was capable of doing that. I don't much care about the size of the machine just as long as it doesn't overheat and flash/beep at me.

I still don't understand this Streaming controller business. How would that even make sense? Rumors are silly. Just like people you think DubStep is new. :)

The Sega Channel wasn't a streaming service.  It was a download service much like standard game download content is today.  What made it unique was that it operated through the standard cable TV service with the games being broadcast on rotation.  Your console had to wait until that game was broadcast again and it was downloaded into RAM (meanign you also erased the game once you turned off the console).

Ok yeah it's in the RAM but now let's just fast foward 10 years, if that was possible then, streaming a few MB worth of  game  would be possible. I mean OnLive does it, sort of successfully.