Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War

An anonymous reader writes "Project Flare, the new server side gaming technology from Square Enix, turned heads when it was announced last week. The first tech demos do little more than show the vast number of calculations it can handle with hundreds of boxes tumbling down in Deus Ex, but the potential is there to do much more than just picture-in-picture feeds in MMOs. As a new article points out, what's most interesting is the potential to use the technology for games that use more than one system — OnLive may have used this tech before, but only to play games you can buy on discs in the shops anyway, but the future is in games that need the equivalent of dozens of PS4s or Xbox Ones to power them. Ubisoft has already partnered with Square on the project."

Console DRM?

[Hsien-Ko]

Imagine your game not starting because the 'physics' servers are down or you can't connect to them.....

Re:Console DRM?

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine your house is on fire. It would be hard to play games in that situation as well.

I see they hired the mafia to handle difficult sales.

Re:IMO, it is not going to work

[Dodgy G33za]

Unless they have an aimbot