Google, Mozilla/Firefox tweaking web browsers for Web-based games performance

[froggyboy604]

In what could transform the video game industry, Web browser developers Google Inc. and Mozilla Corp. are in the early stages of developing ways for users to play games simply by opening a Web page.

The gamer would no longer be tethered to an expensive game console: A game could be played from anywhere and on any device as long as there is an Internet connection, creating a potential game audience of billions that could be worth billions of dollars annually.

Software advances, notably HTML 5, are making it possible for developers to create games for Web browsers that are more complex than those on Facebook and don't require users to install any extra software.

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Cool, I wonder if Google and Firefox making more advance web browser which run HTML5 games better mean soon there would be PC quality games which people can play on a web browser, and maybe even be playable on the Wii U, PS4 and Xbox One web browser with the controller.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

About time, consoles need better browsers on them.

 

[froggyboy604]

If you read the full article on the source link, the web browsers the article are talking about are desktop, tablet, and smartphone web browsers which Firefox, and Chrome made to make playing games on a web browser on desktops, tablet, and smartphones better than current flash games on Facebook.

Mozilla's Vukicevic said users will start to see major HTML 5 browser games launch for desktop browsers during the first quarter of 2014. Games for the mobile version of browsers will arrive during the second quarter of next year.

I think Firefox, and Google won't release a web browser for the Xbox One, Wii U, or PS4 because they are not open platforms, and may get rejected by MS, Sony, and Nintendo who uses their own modified web browsers except for Nintendo which uses Opera.

 

[Nuke]

Firefox is the one that will use tech compatible with other browsers. Google has decided to introduce its own "Portable Native Client" (PNaCl) and that is unlikely to spread, while Mozilla is using JS.

 

[froggyboy604]

Opera also is using Google's Blink rendering engine, so new features added to Chrome/Chromium will most likely be added to Opera's web browser.