Even if its bearable to play, with Splashtop you'd be limited to your own wifi network and therefore you own house. Why then would you play on a tablet rather than a bigger screen? Something like Onlive would have more appeal to me where you can play from anywhere.
Becuase the wife takes over the tv, but you want to keep playing. Or you need to be in another room with the kids and can't take your desktop with you. If you had a gaming laptop, this wouldn't matter, but most of us don't.
So here's the thing: the game is rendered on your own PC and streamed over WiFi. There's no real loss in quality, though I'm not sure how much lag there might be with such a solution. I'd guess you could do something similar with a laptop if you wanted -- any laptop. It's a cool concept and I'm not entirely sure where other companies might take it. For now, it was just rather novel to be able to play Skyrim via a tablet.
My friends actually use Hamachi to play Minecraft as if they where networked. Although Hamachi doesn't have an android app so you may have to go an alternate root.
MS have not announced anything like that and likely wont do so for months being as the BETA isn't even out yet. But i would think you could buy ARM copies, or atleast download the ISO from MS.
If i knew for certain that the Prime will have Win 8 support in the future then i'd buy one now and it would eventually replace my laptop. Android just isn't good enough.
If it was useless then OnLive wouldn't be doing on a much bigger scale.
You may not have use for it but at night I'd love to be able to play out side of my room when my GF is trying to sleep.
Plus if GPU's ever got virtualized, you could have one gaming PC with multiple videocards streaming to dummie terminals for lan play, It would be cheaper then buying 4 separate computers.
Not exactly a huge market but it's not exactly useless either.
Still don't know whether I can be impressed by Windows 8 on ARM, since we don't know if it's really Windows 8, or basically just a table/phone OS yet, and don't know performance.
If it runs real windows decently, I'm impressed. If it even has an x86 emulator, I'm very impressed.
If it's just running phone "apps" with Metro or whatever, I couldn't care less. I already have an iPad to do that, and barely use it.
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SlyNine - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
I'd love to be able to stream play a game like that with my notebook.3DoubleD - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
So sexy. I can't wait to try this when I (finally) get my Transformer Prime.tipoo - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
Even if its bearable to play, with Splashtop you'd be limited to your own wifi network and therefore you own house. Why then would you play on a tablet rather than a bigger screen? Something like Onlive would have more appeal to me where you can play from anywhere.Dug - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
Becuase the wife takes over the tv, but you want to keep playing.Or you need to be in another room with the kids and can't take your desktop with you.
If you had a gaming laptop, this wouldn't matter, but most of us don't.
JarredWalton - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
So here's the thing: the game is rendered on your own PC and streamed over WiFi. There's no real loss in quality, though I'm not sure how much lag there might be with such a solution. I'd guess you could do something similar with a laptop if you wanted -- any laptop. It's a cool concept and I'm not entirely sure where other companies might take it. For now, it was just rather novel to be able to play Skyrim via a tablet.algag - Monday, January 16, 2012 - link
You could just VPN into your home network and all of a sudden it works....unless I'm wrong, simple answer to , kinda-complex question.algag - Monday, January 16, 2012 - link
My friends actually use Hamachi to play Minecraft as if they where networked. Although Hamachi doesn't have an android app so you may have to go an alternate root.Sttm - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - link
Does anyone know if Windows 8 will be available to buy for Arm devices like it is for x86, or will it be a only from the manufacturer sort of thing.B3an - Thursday, January 12, 2012 - link
MS have not announced anything like that and likely wont do so for months being as the BETA isn't even out yet. But i would think you could buy ARM copies, or atleast download the ISO from MS.If i knew for certain that the Prime will have Win 8 support in the future then i'd buy one now and it would eventually replace my laptop. Android just isn't good enough.
SlyNine - Thursday, January 12, 2012 - link
If it was useless then OnLive wouldn't be doing on a much bigger scale.You may not have use for it but at night I'd love to be able to play out side of my room when my GF is trying to sleep.
Plus if GPU's ever got virtualized, you could have one gaming PC with multiple videocards streaming to dummie terminals for lan play, It would be cheaper then buying 4 separate computers.
Not exactly a huge market but it's not exactly useless either.
Wolfpup - Monday, January 23, 2012 - link
Still don't know whether I can be impressed by Windows 8 on ARM, since we don't know if it's really Windows 8, or basically just a table/phone OS yet, and don't know performance.If it runs real windows decently, I'm impressed. If it even has an x86 emulator, I'm very impressed.
If it's just running phone "apps" with Metro or whatever, I couldn't care less. I already have an iPad to do that, and barely use it.