The future of cloud gaming

In the past few years, the development of cloud games at home and abroad has been blowing out. Whether it is traditional game companies or technology giants in the Internet industry, they all want to take a share of this promising market.In addition to the games that have been officially launched, there are many more resources that are being reserved and ready to go.

The cloud game has five core technologies to complete the cloudification of hardware devices and any cross-platform use of game content to enhance the current game experience

Five core technologies of cloud gaming

GPU servers support real-time and high-speed parallel computing, as well as floating-point computing, improving graphics and reducing latency for cloud gaming services.

• Virtualization technologies (including isolation technologies such as virtual machines, containers, and GPU virtualization technologies) play a crucial role in improving cloud gaming efficiency.

• Audio Video Decoding Acceleration reduces latency caused by video encoding and decoding.Use less network bandwidth while maintaining video quality.

• The high bandwidth and low latency of 5G make this technology a key driver for cloud gaming, providing more possibilities for any cross-platform gaming in the future.

• Edge node computing reduces latency and improves operation and management efficiency, ensuring a smooth cloud gaming experience for users.

Technical practice in cloud gaming scenarios

• GPU-driven cloud game rendering

G4 instances bring NVIDIA's gaming power to Amazon Cloud Technologies.The most complex games can be rendered and streamed using the GPU's hardware encoder engine.Game publishers can build their own cloud gaming instances based on the latest NVIDIA technology.

• Audio and video streaming

DCV, Amazon Cloud's remote desktop product, its adaptive streaming protocol allows your cloud server to provide clients with near real-time responsiveness without compromising image accuracy.NICE DCV is completely free to use on Amazon EC2.

• Entertainment & AR, VR, MHD

In the fields of augmented reality, virtual reality, and smart head-mounted displays, G4 instances can achieve more realistic immersion through real-time ray tracing technology, DLSS anti-aliasing technology, MVR (multi-view rendering), VRS (variable rate shading) technologyThis provides the basis for AR/VR-like cloud games.

Among many market trends, the trend of Chinese games going overseas is worthy of attention.In recent years, the main trends and growth points of Chinese games in overseas markets are as follows: overseas markets have a first-mover advantage due to their growth based on emerging markets; cultural globalization is a historical trend and an inevitable trend; entertainment apps have a huge overseas market.Monetization ability; enablers in the overseas industry chain provide strong support and other advantages.Under the situation of stricter management in the domestic market and hard to obtain version numbers, many Chinese game makers have turned their attention to foreign countries.It is a general trend for Chinese games to go overseas.