Wednesday, February 9, 2011

HTC Wants to Push Games on Smartphones, Makes a $40M Investment in OnLive

OnLive, for those who may not be aware, is a gaming service that does all the computing and processing server-side, and then sends the results via the internet to the client. It’s a fairly new service that enables low-grade PCs to play some of the newer games but moving all the hard work to the cloud.
Well, HTC wants in on the same. In order to improve the gaming experience on smartphones, HTC is investing a nice sum of $40M to the OnLive service, intending it to be applied to bringing its service to smartphones. It’s expected that when launches, the service will hit Android phones first, likely made by HTC, but rest assured that they won’t stop there. With all the hard processing done on the server side, games ought to be accessible from many different clients, provided that the internet connection is stable enough to transmit the data. Hope you have wifi, or an unlimited data plan.

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