The current trend in terms of
video games is quite demanding, it is in fact this requirement of the fans in terms of satisfying their needs which has made the
video game industry is innovating more and more, reaching the point of starting to get rid of tedious physical units where the
video game is hosted or that you have to download large amounts of content to enjoy it and have begun to implement the use of hosting in the cloud to improve the experience of their customers, as they have made
Microsoft, Sony and
Nintendo. However, these are not free of all these "
discomforts" that we mentioned, because they still have them in part and it is this weakness that the
Google Giant wants to take advantage of to enter the market.
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For some time now, comments have been made about a certain project in which
Google has been working on
streaming games. This has been known only a name "
Yeti" and with which the secret project is based on the creation of both hardware and software in order to provide a streaming service, such as the
Netflix model, but with respect to video game.
It is considered that this project "
Yeti" from Google could give a strong competition to
Microsoft, Sony and
Nintendo in regard to their
consoles, due to
Google's cloud technology, Yeti would have more than just the ability to offer
games in streamig, could also provide the added value of graphically improving the
games and increase the performance of the connection device, avoiding the inconvenience to the fans of changing the console or failing the graphics card, every so often.
This technology is not far from the hands of
Google, because last year 2018, it presented "
Project Stream", which consisted of a platform for the transmission of
games that allowed fans to play selected titles at high internet speeds, only through the use of an ingenious basante software and a traditional
video game console.
Taking into account the above, from Project Stream to the expectations of what could be the Yeti project, it would only be necessary to make some improvements / modifications of the same concept, to be honest. Well, among the disadvantages would be the need for extremely high internet speeds, which would not be very beneficial.
The latter would result in a case similar to the idea of Nvidia with the GeForce Now brand, in 2017, with separate service of games in the cloud for PC and Macintosh computers; which is comprised of a network of servers based on data centers in North America and Europe where the GeForce Now game library is stored and supplied to members of those regions. For this project, Nvidia recommended a 50 Mbit / s Internet connection for 1080 / 60p transmission, although the service can also work at half this speed (25 Mbit / s) to transmit at 720p / 60p, as well as 720 / 30p frames per second for speeds greater than 10 Mbit / s.
But of course in this case
Nvidia is respective to computers unlike
Google's Yeti project in which the creation of special hardware is expected for it.
Regarding the announcement of this project, the
Google giant is expected to announce this service at the
Game Developers Conference 2019 (
GDC 2019). Meanwhile,
Google's hardware chief,
Rick Osterloh, increased the odds that a
video game console was developed, by means of a tweet he made. According to
Forbes' speculation, they believe that the device could be similar to
Google Chromecast digital media player, so it would be a small transmission device, whose design is oriented to the connection of a television and drivers.
If the inside of the
Yeti project is a device integrated and if this will be as
Forbes speculates, that is not certain. What one can be sure of is that, if this ambitious
Google project turns out to be as expected, and if it manages to have the ideal success, it could mean a breakthrough in the
video game industry. Since now players must buy large consoles in addition to specific titles of
games, physical or downloading very large files, all to have a specific
game. We just need to be aware of the announcements that
Google will make, to see how promising this super secret project will be.
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