Cloud game: The game industry strong heart needle?

Perhaps a lot of people's eyes are attracted by Apple's WWDC, however, before WWDC, the annual, the world's largest video game show, the United States E3 game exhibition opened last week, despite the weakness of the game industry in the past two years, but the game giants dare not snub, bring heavy classic game.

In addition, foreign media sources said the game giant will look to the cloud game in the future, hoping to bring new development.

The game also play "cloud"

Not only are IT vendors interested in the "cloud", but they are now in the midst of a weak gaming industry, and the Giants intend to revive the market. It is reported that before E3, there are rumors that Sony will buy cloud gaming services OnLive, and Microsoft (Weibo) is also considering the acquisition of similar cloud gaming companies. Although Sony and Microsoft have not announced such a merger, but with the development of the game industry, it is believed that the cloud game will soon appear in front of us.

It is understood that the so-called cloud game, is the user can play high-end PC games, real-time video content to the television, PC or tablet computer. The game supports 720p HD, similar to the video resolution of the general game host.

While Microsoft and Sony are still rumored to be engaged in "cloud games", however, rivals have been unable to restrain, and the competitor's appearance is somewhat unexpected-Samsung (micro-blog) plans to enter the gaming industry, and will adopt streaming media company Gaikai Cloud gaming platform, in order to become following Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo's fourth-largest video gaming platform.

Gaikai's CEO, Davidperry, said: "We will push Samsung into the gaming world, and it will soon be the fourth major video game platform." "It is understood that Samsung to the cloud game in a new mode of display on TV, so as to ensure that the game quickly into the market, Gaigai will be in the near future beta version test." Because Samsung did not release the game host, the user buys a game controller with USB interface, keyboard, connect it to have a broadband connection of TV or PC can play.

Giants lack new hardware

"Diablo 3" again set off a boom in PC games, in this year's E3, a variety of classic games also in time to launch a sequel, hoping to pull the players ' attention back to the game host and PC. such as "Halo 4", "Call of Duty 9: Black Action 2", The new "Tomb Raider", "God of War:" The Gods, "extreme race: Horizon," and so on, and the Nintendo new host Wii U new "Super Mario U" also as scheduled, this game to support 4 of people fun, greatly enhance the game can play. While mobile and social gaming have grown rapidly over the past two years, social gaming companies such as Zynga and PopCap still play a supporting role in E3, according to the study. Unfortunately, at this E3, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have not released a new game host.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)