Author: Abhimanyu Ghoshal / Source: The Next Web
USgamer reports that retail giant Walmart is working on a game streaming service, hopping on the now-heavily-burdened bandwagon that includes Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony.
That’s from the media outlet’s sources, which say that the company has been in talks with game developers and publishers about it over the past few months.
If the report is accurate, we may just have another major player in the game streaming space. But even if Walmart is working on this, it may well be a while before it launches its service.
For starters, we don’t yet know if Walmart’s made any progress on building the necessary tech for its platform. As we’ve learned from Google’s announcement of its own Stadia service, there are several moving parts involved, including having a vast network of data centers to beam games to players quickly, with custom hardware designed to run those titles in the cloud efficiently.
To that end, Google noted it’d been working on the various components that make up Stadia for several years. It also has more than 7,500 edge node locations around the world from which it can serve up games over…
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