The Death of the Console

Ok, maybe the title is a little too dramatic, but a recent post over on Techcrunch had some very interesting video footage of how well games can be rendered in a browser.
This post comes as a surprise to me, especially after reading that the next generation of consoles are not too far off.

The difference with traditional consoles are that the graphics engine is located on a remote server so very little is being rendered on the client side. The effect this has is that pretty soon we’ll be able to run extremely high-graphic games on netbooks or mobiles. To see more of what’s possible, I recommend taking a look at the embedded clip.