What Cloud Gaming is all about? Video games came into existence during 1970s, though it is not confirmed that which game was the first video game, most of the people believe Pong or Computer Space to be the first video game that were launched properly.
Though the quality of video games back then was not what we find in recent video games. Due to the huge advancements in the technology the quality of video games has improved exponentially.
Modern video games, of 2013, are rich in high-end graphics and have tons of features and options that make the gaming fun and entertaining for the gaming lovers. E.g. modern console games are able to replicate the movement of the player and perform accordingly in the game.
Most of the modern video games use the advanced technologies such as Motion Picture or Touch Screens which make the overall gaming experience even more entertaining. One technology that has completely revolutionized the gaming world is Cloud Gaming.
The term cloud is being used in almost all the fields in modern computing like Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage or Cloud Networking. Therefore its introduction in the gaming world is not as surprising as it may sound. Cloud gaming has made the experience even more smooth for the users and is now considered as one of the most preferred methods of gaming these days.
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In cloud computing, we basically use the cloud services to host the games, so that all the players can connect to it seamlessly. The already available online gaming options like, Play station Network or Xbox Live is quite different from the concept of cloud gaming, as in case of Xbox and play station, each player needs to buy his/her own copy of the game to play it.
Whereas in Cloud gaming, all the players use the centralized one copy of the game to play, this saves a lot of money for gaming lovers. Since the processing power and disk space of the Cloud Server are used, you don’t need to have a high - end PC to run these games. The gamer`s PC is connected to the cloud server using the internet and that’s all that is required to play the games hosted on cloud.
When you press the buttons on your device, the signal will be sent to the cloud server to get rendered. These cloud services have been very successful in various video-on-demand services as well. The benefits that cloud gaming offers to gamers are immense.
Cloud gaming offers instant availability of the games, you don`t need to buy the CD to play the game, bus instead you can just select the game from cloud gaming server and start playing without any delay.
Another huge benefit is that you don`t have to spend big money on high-end graphics card or PC to be able to play the game. Both of these benefits make Cloud Gaming a very preferable and easy choice for many.
There have been various online companies coming to the surface of the web to offer cloud gaming service, but since this is a relatively new concept and only a few specialize in it, it is better to first perform in-depth research and then select which cloud gaming service you should opt for.
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Eric is Hardware and Networking Technician who loves to write on Latest in Gaming Technology.In his Free Time he loves to play BMX Games.