Putting every game console in the palm of your hand          1.
Jeremy Cook says:      Really clever idea to “outsource” the
processing of your portable gaming like that. Different service,
but it would be interesting if bandwidth ever got to the point
where you could just VPN into a remote console and “rent” it.
Maybe that already exists.      • Jay Mounes says:        It
does, it’s awful, and it never works as described. It’s one of
those novel but totally impractical ideas. Even if you reach
viable throughput (which we have) on a single link, the network
itself as a packet-distributed deal isn’t reliable to make it a
good idea. If you could get an actual closed circuit connection
sure, but that’s not what IP does.        Also there’s already
the commercial product from NVIDIA that’s already out that does
exactly this except it does i over WiFi directly from your
graphics card, which is probably a better, more practical way of
doing it.        • Downing says:          The Shield is a great
product, we had f