David Perry Demos His Cloud Gaming Service Gaikai

Dave Perry has posted a new personal blog entry which shows a "live demo" of his new cloud computing-based game service running. Gaikai was one of two cloud gaming services to surface earlier this year, but unlike OnLive, Gaikai's requirements are significantly less.

Perry records a demo of the service working from his home personal computer, and via his Firefox browser and what he calls an average home Internet connection, the results seem pretty impressive.

We are not in competition with any other streaming company or technology, our business model is entirely different. I will be talking about it more during my up-coming speeches at video game conferences. (Develop this month, and GDC Europe are the next two.)

Gaikai is currently looking for California-based beta testers to apply.

Bryn says: The video *was* extremely impressive. A few thoughts however. Playing WoW or EVE Online: there's so much personal customization that can be carried out with MMOs that it kinda makes it hard to think vanilla versions of the game would be appealing to a hardcore user base. On the other hand, you don't need to install the games and it becomes extremely portable.

And what about controllers? Perry's demo clearly uses a keyboard, but how easy will it be to rig up a decent joypad. Whatever the case, this demo of Gaikai really impressed me. Thoughts?

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