| elektranine said: Wow the OP must have some serious reading comprehension issues. The patent clearly references a peripheral add on for their consoles. In no way is that cloud gaming. PlayStation Now is a cloud gaming service, Microsoft if they ever get around to it will have a cloud gaming service. But in no way is a physical add-on to a console 'cloud gaming'. |
Maybe you should *read* the patent ... yes there is a "supplemental gaming" attachment you can buy, the part you didn't bother to comprehend is the part where that extra horsepower for users who who have it is shared to other console (NX?) users, which is cloud computing. The patent even outlines a possible reward system for people who allow others to use their extra "computing power".
The patent is not simply for a self enclosed add-on, it's for an add-on which then can provide extra power to other console (NX) users who don't even have the add-on. See below.
You can "share" you supplemental computing power with others and it's tracked, the more you share presumably the more rewards you get.
Cloud computing as in simply streaming games is nothing special. Even the 3DS (in Japan) already does that (Dragon Quest X). This is far more ambitious than that.
