Onlive, a Cloud gaming startup, is one company which is attempting to remove the underlying requirement of powerful graphic processing by shifting it to Cloud and streaming the processed data to clients over a high speed Internet connection.

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The Wii has less processing power and graphic sophistication than rival machines from Sony and Microsoft, but it has outsold them by a wide margin, owing to its ease, sociability, and accessibility, and also perhaps to the misconception that, say, Wii Tennis is a form of exercise.

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