It’s a gamer’s nightmare state of affairs, and one which occurs all too typically. You get again from work able to unwind, and a roommate, partner, or sibling is hogging your gaming desktop or laptop computer. Or, in an equally demanding state of affairs, somebody is binging everything of Squid Game on the monitor or TV you utilize to gun down Spartan noobs (or no matter).

If solely your video games weren’t tethered to a selected machine, and that machine wasn’t linked to a single display screen. Alienware thinks it has an answer, however let me preface this by saying it isn’t one you’ll be having fun with anytime quickly.

Announced within the build-up to CES 2022, the corporate’s Concept Nyx is a imaginative and prescient for the longer term during which a single sport streaming server in your house is able to streaming a number of cases concurrently from a central sport library. It’s all fairly conceptual in its present stage, so let me break a few of that down for you.

See the large field above? It’s the server, if you’ll—a gaming system that, in Alienware’s preferrred world, may run 4 video games concurrently and stream them through wifi to an app that may very well be accessed on any of your gadgets, be {that a} pill, cellphone, desktop, TV, or laptop computer. You may then immediately change from enjoying in your pill to your TV when your roommate finishes watching the ultimate episode.

The purpose is to make accessing video games as straightforward as streaming films or TV reveals, besides with out having to change between a dozen completely different companies. Alienware says this app would host your entire video games, no matter the place you bought them.

Here is how Alienware envisions Concept Nyx:

“Imagine you’re on your desktop in your bedroom exploring Night City in Cyberpunk 2077. Your roommates are on their laptops and tablets in the living room, battling head-to-head in Rocket League. And your cousin is also over, casually building a new world in Minecraft on her cell phone. Now let’s say it’s time to prepare dinner so you head downstairs and pass the controller to one of your roommates – you can quickly switch to your CyberPunk 2077 experience on the 65-inch TV in the living room and let them takeover exactly where you left off, advancing your game while you cook.”

You may be questioning how this differs from present cloud gaming options, like Nvidia’s GeForce Now or Google Stadia. The key right here is edge computing, so a high-performance gaming system may course of every thing regionally (as an alternative of touring to a far-off server), permitting for decrease latency and better bandwidth.

This all appears like a dream state of affairs for avid gamers, and sadly, proper now it’s precisely that: a dream. There are some nontrivial technological hurdles to beat, to not point out potential compatibility points—oh, and that chip scarcity downside. We noticed a few of these difficulties firsthand in a laggy demo of Nyx making an attempt to stream Rocket League and Cyberpunk 2077 concurrently (to be honest, it isn’t clear what triggered the technical hiccups, although the shoddy wifi at these press occasion venues is often the offender).

Like the opposite ideas (Luna, Pari and others) that Dell/Alienware revealed this month, Nyx is in its early phases, and Alienware hasn’t stated something concrete about pricing, upgradability, or specs. While there is no such thing as a certainty of Nyx ever coming to market, we are able to take some solace in realizing mega-corporations typically relate to our ache–and can sometimes attempt to do one thing about it.