Patent ID: 8500558

Claim:
A system comprising: a portable gaming device that has a form factor designed to be held by at least one hand of a user and includes a first processing system that has a first computing power, a display, and a first wireless transceiver that is configured to send and receive; a gaming input device that is configured to: continually capture game play input, at least some of the game play input for controlling at least one player controlled object in a video game; transmit data that is based on the continually captured game play input; and a computing apparatus that is located remotely from the portable gaming device, the computing apparatus including a second processing system and a second transceiver configured to communicate with the portable gaming device and/or the gaming input device, the second processing system having a second computing power that is greater than the first computing power, the second processing system including at least one processor, the second processing system configured to: receive, via the second transceiver, the transmitted data based on the captured gameplay input; simulate a plurality of three-dimensional objects based on the received data, the plurality of three-dimensional objects including at least one player object associated with the at least one player controlled object; render the plurality of three-dimensional objects to create a video presentation, the rendering of the plurality of three-dimensional objects done in less time via the second processing system of the computing apparatus than a corresponding set of the plurality of three-dimensional objects could have been rendered on the first processing system of the portable gaming device, where objects of the corresponding set have polygon counts equal to corresponding objects in the plurality of three-dimensional objects; and send the video presentation to at least the portable gaming device, wherein the first processing system of portable gaming device is further configured to: receive, via the first wireless transceiver, the video presentation sent from the computing apparatus, and display the received video presentation via the display of the portable gaming device, the video presentation including at least some portion that displays a player object image that corresponds to the at least one player object, where the player image of the video presentation is displayed in conformance with the at least some of the game play input for controlling at least one player controlled object in the video game.