As you can see from the results in the first article, games like Halo and GTA have input lags of around ~167ms. If you have fiber, your round trip time to a close server is around ~8ms.

As you can see, ping times are really not that big of a factor when calculating how responsive a game feels.

Given the aging tech of today's consoles, it shouldn't be too hard to beat that input lag time with much faster processing capabilities. In fact, you need to be just 5% faster than a 360 and the ping time is taken care of. But the question is can you do it economically on a large scale? That's the question we are all waiting to find out. they are saying they can do it for $5/month. I guess we'll see.

Tumbler wrote on Jun 15, 2010, 10:44:
If you can play new games on a $400 "work" laptop it will easily be worth $60 a year. There was a review of a budget gaming laptop on digg...it was $1,700... Give me a break.

There is a huge market of people for this service. All those low end laptops would be capable of high end gaming (hopefully). Even if they have to use cables to connect, it's an option hey do noy have ATM.

Zardoz5 wrote on Jun 9, 2010, 13:41:
I'm not complaining about Valve's humor or originality, I enjoy their games and their writing but I find it shark jumping that they are incorporating their fictional world with a real world company.

Propagandhi wrote on May 23, 2010, 15:05:
OS X itself (not the thing that runs on the iPad/iPods/iPhone) is POSIX compliant. Up until recently it had very good OpenGL support as well (they're a couple major revisions behind now, unfortunately).

That's a great environment for a computer engineer to work in, undeniably better than most console. Many developers will prefer that kind of environment to Windows..

Caveman wrote on Apr 27, 2010, 16:16:
It's only $60 if you're a tool and buy it on Steam or D2D. Amazon is selling it for $10 cheaper, and last week they had a coupon which allowed me to score for only $40.