A recent patent filing by Microsoft has industry commentators suggesting that the computing giant will create a system of pervasive gaming where players can move from one platform to another. If we guess this right, gamers could start their game on their Xbox before work, play a mobile phone version of their games on their ride to work, take a snapshot of a clue to include in the game just outside the office and then listen to an aspect of the game on their Zune. At the same time, the people around them can join the game with their consoles and mobile devices too. Pocketgamer says:
The basis of the patent is for a system in which a non-portable gaming device (such as a console, PC or laptop), and several portal devices (such as phones, PDAs and dedicated gaming handhelds), can work in a co-operative manner using either wireless or wired connections… It’s sort of like an extension of what’s known as ‘distributed processing,’ where different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that communicate over a network, into what could be called ‘distributed gaming’. There are some subtle differences, however, since the flow of information isn’t just directed to the handhelds using the console, but vice versa too.
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