EA and Comcast announced today that they are launching an all new games streaming service. It is called Xfinity Games, and you don’t need anything to run it, other than a supported Xfinity set-top box- your smartphone or tablet can act as a controller.

Xfinity Games only supports EA’s mobile titles, as opposed to their console efforts, but EA’s mobile titles are still fairly impressive- some of the supported games include FIFA Soccer 13, Plants vs. Zombies, and NBA Jam. The full list is longer, and can be perused on the Xfinity Games website.

Personally, I am not seeing the need for this service at all- if I want to play smartphone or tablet games, and I have to use those as the controller for these games anyway, I would just… play those games on my smartphone or tablet, rather than via streaming? Especially since a lot of these games are online and social feature centric, and Comcast has confirmed that online functionality won’t work on these games while streaming.

It just sounds like a mess.