In the recent past, there were a gamut of technological breakthroughs in the gaming space. The evolution of gaming from the golden age of arcade games to gaming consoles to desktop gaming to the engaging mobile gaming interfaces today has been monumental. Gaming has inevitably incepted and transformed the lives of the new-age generation today. In fact, gaming is not just a source of entertainment anymore but has metamorphosed into a lifestyle, a sport and even a profession for the Gen-Z.
Besides offline games, online streaming has also become the center of attraction in the gaming industry. With the rise of cloud computing, the future of gaming decisively depends on online streaming. Most of the gaming consumers today crave for an ever engaging and realistic gaming experience, which is the most dynamic challenge that gaming creators and publishers must quickly adapt to. Due to the soaring popularity of cloud gaming, the introduction of mixed reality gaming with the aid of AR and VR gaming technologies, and AI utilization, are expected to dominate the gaming ecosystem in the next decade.[1]
E-sports & Streaming Platforms
As a result of this evolution, the interface of today’s gaming platforms is incessantly becoming more complex and data intensive. According to Openwave Mobility’s findings, many data center operators believe that cloud gaming could account for up to 50% of 5G data traffic this 2022.[2] Especially with the emergence of electronic sports, or e-sports, the follower’s community, and its viewership is expected to reach up to 645M this 2022.[3]
To delve in further, E-sports is an event that involves competitive gaming of professional gamers in various popular computer-based video games through online battle arenas, and at the same time streaming of gaming enthusiasts in platforms like YouTube Gaming, Facebook Gaming, Twitch, and Garena Live.[4]
Because of its enormous popularity, the Olympic Council of Asia announced that e-sports will make its debut in the 2022 Asian Games. The included medal games that single players or teams will compete against are FIFA, PUBG Mobile, Arena of Valor, Dota 2, League of Legends, Dream Three Kingdoms 2, HearthStone, and Street Fighter V.[5]
Cloud gaming & E-sport Challenges
Before any gaming event begins, specifically chosen e-sport players undergo training at their specific team headquarters called the e-sports facility. Today’s E-sports organizations invest heavily in the development of their e-sports facility to attract more professional players and them for compete at such events. One of the most expensive e-sport facilities in the world is the $50M Team SoloMid FTX facility located in LA, California.[6]
For a seamless experience, it is highly recommended that whenever players engage in live gaming and streaming, the most crucial requirement is to have fast and low latency interconnection among gaming systems, along with the supporting network and the cloud as a mandate. A single second delay of response speed could result in a huge disadvantage to the players of the competing teams and can even result in losses of millions of dollars in a highly competitive e-sports environment.
Apart from latency issues, one of the major challenges is the unpredictable power outages. This can cause even more damage than a network interruption as the estimated potential damage to the expensive gaming pc and peripherals can be quite enormous in case of an unexpected electrical surge.
Latency Solution & Gaming Essential
Gaming creators and distribution networks are now striving hard towards the adoption of 5G to boost their gaming performance and user-experience. Additionally, to avoid latency issues, gaming servers and access nodes are seemingly being brought strategically to the edge, thereby being located closer to the gaming centers and the gaming community.
Besides building the best headquarters and acquiring the best gaming equipment, it is also important for e-sports facility managers to focus on considering investing on uninterruptible power supply (UPS). This would completely ensure that no power outage can get in the way of their players’ gaming experience, and protecting expensive gaming PC consoles from power shutdowns, harmful surges, and unreliable streams of power supply.
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Sources:
[1] Emerging Technology Trends in Gaming Industry https://www.theproche.com/2020/03/17/technology-trends-in-gaming-industry/
[2] Cloud gaming could be 50% of 5G data traffic by 2022 https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3823461/cloud-gaming-could-be-50-of-5g-data-traffic-by-2022
[3] Everything You Need to Know about eSports Right Now https://marketrealist.com/2019/09/all-you-need-to-know-esports-part-one/
[4] Esports Part 1: What are Esports? https://hir.harvard.edu/esports-part-1-what-are-esports/
[5] Asian Games 2022: Esports to make debut; FIFA, PUBG, Dota 2 among eight medal events https://olympics.com/en/news/fifa-pubg-dota-2-esports-medal-events-asian-games-2022
[6] The Most Expensive Gaming Facility in the world! First look at TSM's $50,000,000 esports centerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ov5vwTb7aY
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