Alienware imagines the home video game of the future

What if we made video games easier and less dependent on machines? That’s the idea behind Dell Alienware’s Concept Nyx.

Alienware Nyx Concept // Source: Dell

To play video games, it is now necessary to connect a device to a monitor (or equipped with its own display). To free yourself from this grip, there are still cloud games, where it is enough to have a screen and any compatible device, no matter how powerful … but this also brings new limitations. So Dell Alienware envisions a half-way solution to all concerns: the Nyx concept.

Play easily anywhere in the house

What if your games were following you on every screen in your home? What if you could play the latest Hungry PC game on your TV without having to unplug and connect your tower again every time? This is what Dell wants to bring with himedge computingNick concept.

L ‘edge computing, or edge computing, is the transfer of computing power to a device on a local network. It’s a bit like cloud games, except that the signal does not pass through a remote server, but through your computer in your upstairs office, allowing for significant latency gains. This is for example what Valve offers with Steam Link (previously available as a box) or Nvidia with its GameStream.

So the concept of the Nyx is nothing new, but Dell Alienware wants to make the process easier by making it instantly accessible from any home device throughout your home by launching a simple app. Start a game on your desktop, follow it on TV by just moving your console, and then go back to playing on the back of your bed on your tablet – all in the smoothest way.

In addition, this solution can be platform-free and work with any game, whether purchased from Steam, Epic Games, GoG, Battle.Net, etc…

Sharing above all

Moreover, Dell Alienware does not want to stop at games and allow access to music, series or movies. In its press release, Alienware states that it has ” Discover how to run four game streams simultaneously, switch smartly between devices and take advantage of a central library for all your games Of course, the 4 streams will be limited by the power of the core machine. If everything is running on a small computer, don’t expect 4 people to playCyberpunk 2077 moviein Ultra at once.

The Nyx concept was revealed at CES 2022, and it has not yet been presented to the public. Remember that in 2020, Alienware introduced the Concept UFO, a PC in the Nintendo Switch format, which has remained so…understandably.

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