The Future of Cloud Gaming: Powered by Aethir

The evolution of broadband internet connectivity and game development has ushered in a new era of online gaming, in which players worldwide can experience breathtaking visuals and immersive gameplay on their PCs, smartphones, and gaming consoles. To smoothly run modern AAA gaming titles, users need devices with powerful hardware specifications since games are becoming increasingly demanding for GPU power. Cloud gaming provides a viable alternative by removing the burden from the player's hardware to the cloud gaming service provider's tech stack. Rendering and data processing are done off-site, on cloud gaming servers, while players stream games on their devices through different cloud gaming platforms. Cloud gaming is rapidly rising in popularity worldwide as a more cost-friendly gaming option that doesn’t require expensive gaming hardware.

The 2024 global cloud gaming market revenue is estimated to reach $6.91 billion, while industry estimates predict a $25.3 billion market cap by 2029. That's a 29.64% anticipated annual growth rate, with the total number of cloud gamers expected to reach 501 million players in 2029.

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are a key factor in the cloud gaming industry because they are the moving force behind cloud computing and handle hardware-intensive game processing. To keep up with the exponential growth of cloud gaming, the industry needs a reliable, secure, efficient, and highly scalable source of GPU computing power. 

Aethir's DePIN stack is focused on providing gaming and AI enterprises with a steady stream of premium quality GPU computing power. Our constantly growing decentralized network of over 80,000 top-shelf GPUs, along with thousands of NVIDIA H100 chipsets, is up to the task of powering the future of cloud gaming innovation and creativity.

Supporting Cloud Gaming Evolution With Decentralized GPU Infrastructure

With the globally growing cloud gaming player base and the increasing number of gaming studios and publishers geared toward cloud gaming projects, the need for an ample supply of GPU computing power is also rapidly rising. Low latency and real-time GPU power scalability are essential for the cloud gaming industry. For players, a lag-free gaming experience is absolutely necessary to fully enjoy AAA titles on their devices. On the other hand, gaming studios and publishers need reliable computing infrastructure to power vast cloud gaming networks and provide quality streaming services for millions of users simultaneously. The need for low-latency GPU computing is especially growing with the production of hardware-intensive, demanding gaming titles with vast virtual worlds that use the most technologically advanced gaming solutions like the Unreal 5 engine. 

Currently, traditional, centralized cloud infrastructure providers dominate the cloud computing industry. However, their limitations are becoming apparent with the growing demand for low-latency cloud computing. That's because centralized cloud computing networks concentrate GPUs in a small number of massive data centers in regional capitals, thus allowing them to efficiently power end-users near their servers. In contrast, users further away from these centers may experience latency issues, especially when there's increased computing demand in remote areas. Centralized cloud providers can't provide optimal service quality to millions of users at the network's edge.

Decentralized cloud computing infrastructure overcomes these limitations by distributing GPU computing resources in numerous server locations across the entire network. This approach allows Aethir to reach users at the network’s edge and provide ultra-low latency services. Aethir's DePIN stack uses this model to channel processing power to end users from the physically closest available GPU Container in Aethir's network. By cutting the distance between GPUs and end-users, we are eliminating latency issues altogether.

Empowering Cloud Gaming Enterprises With Aethir's DePIN Stack

Aethir's DePIN stack provides gaming enterprises with reliable GPU cloud computing resources, empowering gaming companies to explore, create, and launch groundbreaking innovations.

Let's have a look at three use cases of Aethir's decentralized cloud infrastructure for gaming in action.

Powering Next-Level Cloud Gaming With Metagravity's HyperScale Engine

The gaming industry is constantly evolving, with gaming titles becoming more immersive, visually stunning, and feature-packed. This is especially true for open-world games that are growing in size, complexity, and quality with each new AAA title. MetaGravity uses its pioneering HyperScale engine to empower game developers to create and launch massive online gaming worlds with multi-layered gaming universes that foster an unprecedented scale of creativity and size. The HyperScale engine gives developers the tools to build gaming worlds on a 10x scale compared to AAA classics like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars. Furthermore, the HyperScale engine can integrate advanced AI gaming features that are paving the way for never-before-seen AI-powered gaming experiences that change how players engage in everyday gaming.

Aethir's DePIN stack is MetaGravity's chosen GPU cloud computing provider for powering the next generation of cloud gaming. The Aethir GPU network is globally distributed and uses a decentralized GPU power pooling model to manage computing resource allocation in real time. This allows Aethir to ensure MetaGravity's clients have a steady stream of GPU computing power for developing and launching games that utilize HyperScale and other services among MetaGravity's full suite of game development tools and features. Unlike centralized computing providers, Aethir's GPU network is scalable in real-time, allowing us to adjust power consumption according to our partners' needs in a frictionless, uninterrupted manner.

Supporting the Beamable Gaming Ecosystem's Everyday Operations

Various all-in-one cloud gaming platforms foster a unified ecosystem approach by integrating a full scope of gaming services from game design and development to launch and cloud streaming services. Such platforms provide game developers with all the necessary tools to create and launch innovative gaming titles without the need to utilize various providers and spend their time coordinating different independent services. Beamable is a vibrant gaming ecosystem with 50+ popular gaming titles, and its Live Ops gaming platform is shifting to a Web3 gaming model that includes innovative gaming features and blockchain mechanics, such as tokenization of in-game assets, crypto tokenomics, and NFTs. Beamable offers game developers the possibility to integrate analytics, social, commerce, inventory, content management, meta-game features, GenAI, Web3 capabilities, and more into any gaming project. 

Beamable's integrated gaming platform is utilizing Aethir's decentralized cloud infrastructure as a formidable solution for all of its cloud computing needs including game development, launch, and gameplay streaming to end-users. A major gaming ecosystem like Beamable has numerous users distributed across a vast geographical area. This means that Beamable requires a robust cloud computing infrastructure that can provide the same level of quality streaming to users in different parts of the world. Aethir's distributed GPU infrastructure uses a decentralized approach that ensures both developers and players receive optimal quality of service from our  GPU Containers based on GPU allocations assigned by Indexers in Aethir’s network.

Expanding Cloud-Native Smart TV Gaming With Return Entertainment

Cloud-native smart TV gaming introduces an innovative home entertainment possibility, allowing players to quickly turn their smart TVs into gaming devices using their smartphones as controllers. Smart TV cloud gaming is characterized by cinematic, high-resolution, big-screen living room gaming experiences that don't require players to purchase any gaming-specific hardware or process gaming workloads on local devices. Instead, gaming is conducted through specialized TV-native cloud gaming platforms, while data processing and rendering are handled by cloud computing infrastructure. Smart TV cloud gaming requires immense amounts of streamlined GPU computing power and has a major market potential due to the ease of engaging in cloud gaming from the comfort of your living room.

Return Entertainment recently launched its cloud-native smart TV gaming platform and flagship gaming title, Rivals Arena, on Samsung TV sets in the US. The gaming platform is also available for other TV manufacturers and operators. Aethir's DePIN stack is the only enterprise-grade GPU-as-a-service platform on the market, and thanks to our partnership with Return Entertainment, Aethir's GPU network is responsible for facilitating premium smart TV cloud gaming experiences to Return Entertainment's gaming platform users. Together, Aethir and Return Entertainment will develop and launch a one-stop shop for smart TV cloud gaming and make it available for gaming studios looking to expand their reach from desktop and mobile gaming to smart TVs. 

Aethir: The Moving Force Behind Next-Level Cloud Gaming

The need for reliable and scalable cloud computing services is on a steady growth trajectory, with industries such as gaming and AI leading the charge. However, GPU scarcity and the underutilization of available GPUs represent a severe obstacle to powering highly GPU-demanding use cases, such as cloud gaming platforms, gaming studios, and gaming ecosystems. 

Aethir provides enterprise-grade GPU resources for gaming clients in need of dynamically scalable, secure, and stable cloud computing power. The Aethir network's 80,000+ GPUs are optimized to handle advanced cloud gaming workloads regardless of whether our clients have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of active users. That's because Aethir's decentralized network architecture enables resource pooling from multiple GPU Containers simultaneously, ensuring our clients have all the computing power they need to smoothly facilitate their daily operations. 

The future of cloud gaming carries major expansion possibilities, with more than 1.2 billion potential cloud gamers in developing regions. The high influx of cloud gamers worldwide and the innovative solutions pioneered by gaming enterprises need a reputable partner to support their growth and anticipate the industry's evolution in the following years. Aethir is equipped with both tech knowledge and an ample supply of globally distributed GPU resources to power the future of cloud gaming. 

For more details on Aethir's gaming enterprise cloud computing solution, check our official website.