PC games on Sony PS3 using Game Streams: bad for Xbox 360
Filed under: Gaming, PC Games, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 27, 2007 | 38 Comments
So if you got new game releases like FIFA 08 and BioShock on your PC, you may soon be able to play these PC games on your Sony PS3 thanks to “Game Streams”.
According to a new “free-to-join website” called Streammy Game, you will be able to play PC games on your PlayStation 3 via IPTV channels called Game Streams and if this happens it could revolutionise the gaming industry.
The CEO behind this venture is called Richard Faria, the members of Streammy Game will get a free plug-in that converts games into the IPTV channels and will let the gamers play remotely by sending it over a home network.
This is then received by a second PC or laptop which then plays the game, now the first thing I thought was “LAG” but they are claiming there will be none.
If this works and indeed there is no lag, I would have to agree this could not only revolutionise the gaming industry but could help the Sony PS3 win against the Xbox 360.
Q4 of 2007 will see a Linux version released that enables PC games to be played on the PlayStation 3 and it does not stop there, as they also claim the games can be played on other devices like mobile phones, media devices, set top boxes and DVD players.
This is going to be amazing.
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Hm Ps3 linux will also usher in more linux virii.if there are an abundance of machines out there running linux thats where the virus writers will go.They are kinda like bees they go where the honey is.
Ok well you see this is very cool. Playstation is very smart, he can do a lot of things as you can see. Microsoft doesn’t care about how it’s working, they just want to make money. Sony too but theyr quality is a lot better and think about if you can play PC games on ps3 it means that you can buy any game and if you buy PC games you gonna play halo3 and gears of war. Whoever blue ray is a very good inovation. NOw it’s the time to sell your xbox360 and buy a ps3 and get in the game for real.
“Game developers are coming out now letting it be known that the PS3 is inferior to the Xbox 360. ”
Inferior? All I’ve been reading is how fucking lazy some of these developers are. I call that whining and bitching. I hear the same shit at work all the time. “It’s too hard. Waaaa!!!” All you have to do is play games like Ratchet and Clank to see that this is all bullshit. The PS3 is powerful machine. I own a 360 and a PS3 and to say that the PS3 is inferior is just plain retarded. Have fun spending all of your attention on crybabies.
wow, so you can stream games to your ps3 via channels and let your pc run them and drag a mouse and keyboard into your living room if you have a cord long enough, how is this news?
oh btw the ps3 IS inferior to the 360, look at the games every multi platform looks MUCH worse on the ps3. How is this not proof? Lazy developers is the dumbest shi* I have ever heard lucky 9 is a retard.
Its like saying that prop air planes are slower then turbojets because of lazy engineers… your a moron.
lol…Ratchet and Clank??? That game is bs. You might as well play Looney Tunes Acme Arsenal.
I can objective. I’m not making money on any of this. Who the hell wants to play Ratchet and Clank?! I’m playing MOH: Airborne, Halo 3, Gears (still), and in a couple of weeks, Assassin’s Creed and Mass Effect. On top of that, let’s not talk about the online play, voice conversations while gaming, music playing while gaming, streaming media from my pc so I don’t have to load up my elite. C,mon man, be objective. I had the first PlayStation, that’s about it.
I like it when they say game devs are coming out saying the PS3 is inferior to the 360, There are both sides of that story. I noticed no one mentions that:
The Call of Duty 4 devs said the PS3 version was better
Haze was dropped on the 360 since they couldn’t do what they wanted to do hardware limitations
Mark Rein at Epic was like Blu Ray is great since I can have everything I want and that the 360 version would have to have maps cut
Rockstar is making L.A. Noire exclusive to the PS3 since the game is to big for the 360
Both sides have devs that come out and say things. So please don’t act like all the devs are saying the PS3 is inferior to the 360. Its not even the majority
PS3 defenders, ya’ll notice a difference when critics talk about the systems, right?! They get detailed when they talk about the PS3. They don’t say gibberish, like limitations. Developers ultimately want more systems on the market, that’s more money for them. They don’t want a Walmart in the video game market dictating price and so on. If the PS3 was hot, when Halo dropped, there wouldn’t have been a halo effect cause there would of been a hot game on the ps3 too. But other games undersold, mainly cause everyone was busy playing halo 3. I like all the consoles on the market. Sony is getting attacked because of all the smack they talked. They’re the ones talking about how superior they are and it’s not true. They’ve lied to you guys so much: ps2 backwards compatibility, vibration with sixaxis, fake gameplay footage before they dropped. They attacked MS for backwards compatibility and they took it out their newer systems. They mocked MS for having multiple SKU’s, software emulation and what are they doing now?! Let’s be honest, Xbox 360 games keep on looking better as time goes by. They looked like crap in E3 before it dropped. PS3 games keep looking like shit as they progress from the first E3 they debuted. Be honest with yourselves. At least you have a Blue Ray player.
@Esse
Yes devs do go into detail when they describe the limitations of the 360.
Rockstar said due to lack of HDD and DVD9 L.A. Noire will not be on 360. They are having the same problem with GTA4 right now. They want MS to require HDD for it.
Haze devs said lack of HDD, no Blu Ray,closed XBLA have restricted them and they are dropping the 360
I could go on and on.PS3 games continue to look better and you are part of a very small minority that thinks R&C doesn’t look great and better than anything out there. Hell even most reviewers said Lair looked great they just hated the controls. Explain to me why Unreal 3 looks better than Gears? They are the same company and improved on the graphics , Epic even said Unreal 3 on the PS3 is ahead of Gears on the 360.
Please don’t talk about companies lying .They all lie.
MS said the following before:
No one needs HDMI and thats why its not on a 360
No one needs more than 20gb HDD
No games can be done in 1080p on the PS3
360’s have a 3% to 5% failure rate (lol)
No games will ever require the HDD to play
No one has breach security and is stealing personal information on XBLA (huge lie)
I could on and on. All companies say things not just Sony so get over thsi Sony said this stuff because that is how it always is. If your going to hold one company accountable hold them all.
Ok how long before the server runs on Linux. Ok why would we pay when we have better.
Welcome to the world to thin clients. Its only a matter of time before someone wakes up that Virtualgl client works on PS3 under Linux. And that any Linux or Windows game running in wine could be streamed to PS3 or any other device that can support X11 or there own VNC or Suns thin client protocol. Note Virtualgl can be expanded to support any protocol. Now upnp devices that could be interesting to add to Virtualgl.
Ok its the first time this has been done with DRM and the first time from a Windows Server.
But streaming games is nothing new to Linux. To be correct we stream everything games applications… You name it we stream it.
MS thin client software most of them sux. So at long last we are getting a decent one. Pitty it stuck with drm.