Perry demos first public showing of games-on-demand service

Dave Perry has released the first footage of his games-on-demand service Gaikai running a number of games including EVE Online, Spore and World of Warcraft.

Already shown behind close doors at E3 this year to the publishing community and select press, Perry is promising the service will run on everyday net connections, stating "we designed this for the real internet".

"We don't claim to have 5000 pages of patents, we didn't take seven years, and we do not claim to have invented one millisecond encryption and custom chips. As you can see, we don't need them, and so our costs will be much less," said Perry on his website.

"We are not in competition with any other streaming company or technology, our business model is entirely different."

Gaikai will be shown in further detail at Develop this month and GDC Europe in the summer.

Perry is open in his targeting of the same consumers that flock to online sites for easy-to-use Flash game, saying "the professional games industry has never had access to those countless millions of clicks, but now they do."

"Our goals are really simple, to remove all the friction between hearing about a game and trying it out, to help reduce the cost of gaming, to grow videogame audiences, to raise the revenue that publishers and developers can earn, and (most importantly) to make games accessible everywhere.

"If the iPhone App store has taught us anything, when you make it easy to check things out, you get a billion downloads," he concluded.