Project FLARE is a new Cloud Gaming concept being designed by Square Enix and some collaborators to change the function of gaming. By using the cloud as a virtual supercomputer, Project FLARE seeks to increase the quality of gaming by providing Hollywood-quality animations and graphics in real time and completely new features of gaming.
These new features would include video streams, big data rendering for very detailed and lifelike worlds, and what they call “Extremes of Realism and Fantasy,” or mass battles, crowds, and a more advanced and capable AI. Presenting games in this way is also meant to reduce latency.
Project FLARE seems to be Square Enix’s way to surpass the limits currently placed on gaming by the consoles themselves, as more information becomes available, we will see if that holds true.
What do you think? Does this sound like an upgrade to you or are they fixing something that isn’t broken?