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Perry promises Gaikai on TVs by 2012

Streaming games service Gaikai's claim to fame is the ability to run on practically everything - including Internet-capable TVs, as early as next year.

"I will promise you this: you will see Gaikai on digital televisions in 2012," Gaikai head and ex-Shiny designer Dave Perry told Gamasutra.

"And it will not require any big [partnerships]. I would expect it to be on lots of televisions."

OnLive recently announced a partnership with Intel to see the rival service on any TV with the latest Atom processor built in - but Perry says Gaikai does one better than that, and will work on any networked TV.

"We're able to stream our [technology] into the TV without putting in any chip. That's a pretty big advantage, and there's been a lot of effort put into that. ... We can put the Gaikai app on the Vizio TV without modification of the Vizio TV," he offered as an example.

Gaikai looks set to go all cylinders soon, coming out of a six-month European beta to partner with Eurogamer.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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