The power of the cloud, fully housed on your local network.
Alienware recently detailed Concept Nyx, a cloud-based gaming service that would reside wholly within your own local network.
“Imagine you’re on your desktop in your bedroom exploring Night City in Cyberpunk 2077. Your roommates are on their laptops and tablets in the living room, battling head-to-head in Rocket League. And your cousin is also over, casually building a new world in Minecraft on her cell phone,” Alienware began in a press release.
“Now let’s say it’s time to prepare dinner so you head downstairs and pass the controller to one of your roommates – you can quickly switch to your CyberPunk 2077 experience on the 65-inch TV in the living room and let them takeover exactly where you left off, advancing your game while you cook.”
According to Alienware, Concept Nyx would offer “high performance game processing” using one’s local network, therefore reducing latency over greater bandwidth.
The concept, according to Alienware, solves “some of the performance shortfalls of current alternatives like cloud gaming,” meaning “multiplayer latency could reach single-digit milliseconds to dramatically decrease any lag of modern-day cloud gaming systems.”
The company is currently at wokr on “how to power four game streams simultaneously, smart switching among devices, and drawing from a central library of all your games regardless of where you purchase them.”
Much like Alienware’s very Switch-like Concept UFO, Concept Nyx is a prototype at present; no consumer facing products have actually been announced.
You can learn more about Concept Nyx right here.
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