{"id":106024,"date":"2019-12-20T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356049"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:43:00","slug":"tencent-expands-start-cloud-gaming-platform-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/tencent-expands-start-cloud-gaming-platform-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent expands &#8216;Start&#8217; cloud gaming platform in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent has scaled up its &#8216;Start&#8217; cloud gaming platform in mainland China with the help of Nvidia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The service, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339671\/Tencent_opens_new_cloud_streaming_platform_Start_for_public_testing.php\">began public&nbsp;testing in two regions earlier this year<\/a>, promises to let players access triple-A games anytime, anywhere, &#8220;with an experience that is consistent with playing locally on a gaming rig.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Start is being powered by Nvida\u2019s GPU technology, and has recently added a number of notable PC&nbsp;titles to its catalog including<em> NBA2K Online 2<\/em>, <em>Path of Exile<\/em>, and <em>Fortnite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although a <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/tencent-games-partners-with-nvidia-to-launch-start-cloud-gaming-service\">press release from Nvidia<\/a> claims the platform has now &#8220;launched&#8221; in China, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1207062526002896898?s=20\">Niko Partners\u2019 analyst Daniel Ahmad<\/a> suggests the streaming platform has simply been opened up to more users &#8212; and is still in the public testing phase.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it\u2019s clear Start&nbsp;has been quietly marching forward under the watchful eye of Tencent, which could soon enter the cloud streaming market alongside Microsoft and Google.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nvida&#8217;s leadership in building the world\u2019s most powerful GPUs paired with their experience in cloud solutions will empower us to scale our Start&nbsp;platform to millions of gamers,\u201d said Steven Ma, senior vice president at Tencent. &#8220;Today marks a new opportunity for our companies to further push the frontiers of gaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent has scaled up its &#8216;Start&#8217; cloud gaming platform in mainland China with the help of Nvidia.&nbsp; The service, which began public&nbsp;testing in two regions earlier this year, promises to let players access triple-A games anytime, anywhere, &#8220;with an experience that is consistent with playing locally on a gaming rig.&#8221;&nbsp; Start is being powered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}