You know how Opera and other browsers have their remote rendering setup to offload the heavy lifting from the handset? Well, what if that technique was used for something a little less mundane, like gaming? Then you’d get burgeoning startup OTOY, who have managed to make Crysis playable on on a Samsung Omnia with a connected XBox 360 controller. OTOY still works through the browser, and as such will likely work on any mobile – iPhone, Palm Pre, so long as it has a Wi-Fi connection (or 3G, in a pinch). I’m curious what kind of pricing model these guys will go with, but it seems likely that they’ll do something along the lines of Gametap‘s all-you-can-eat subscription model. It seems unlikely that their servers will be able to handle all the processing for the latest games, but a decent selection of PS2, original XBox and Wii games would be enough to get me to sign up. Would a set-up like this finally equalize the playing field between mobile gaming (phones) and portable gaming (PSP, Nintendo DS)?
[via TechCrunch]