Square Enix has announced Project FLARE, a "technological breakthrough in cloud game architecture." The publisher is partnering with Ubisoft, among other interested parties, to improve on and revolutionize the way we consume games. Ubisoft is currently working on its own streaming technology with its Arcus project. "It's going to be a different thing, we just share the same vision," Square Enix chairman Yoichi Wada tells IGN. "The vision is that cloud gaming will open up a window for the video game industry."
The most significant manner in which this ambitious initiative embodies this is in its goal to replace consoles with a "virtual supercomputer."
Ultimately, the goal is to deliver the sort of experiences that even next-gen consoles or a modern gaming PC can't enable. Significant increases in AI, physics, and texture rendering would enable mass crowds of characters behaving appropriately, for instance. While it won't be mandated within Square Enix, Wada says, "I hope it will be
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