OnLive: Cloud based Gaming

A video blog about the upcoming cloud based gaming service called onlive. http://www.onlive.com/

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[IKingMegaman]

Let me set this straight: Moving the processing from the home to servers isn't going to hurt any hardware manufacturer, and technological progress definitely isn't going to stop.. They welcome it! Nvidia has backed OnLive, and ATI is co-creating OTOY cloud gaming. This moves them away from money losing consoles into something that they have more control over. Someone who will buy new cards every 6 month, rather than every 4 years like current consoles. Will there even be another Xbox?

[bonafide250]

@BIGGBAGA subscribing is free....check it out a onlive.com right now...believe me its the real deal...try it...it really does deliveries....the game r cheap than the retail versions..

[BIGGBAGA]

so you have to pay to subscribe and pay for games?? LOL whats the point? I could see paying for a subscription if you got unlimited games, but paying for games that are the same price as buying it for console, what a joke

[GUNS4MIKE1234]

Anyone know what games will work on this or if this takes any kind of headset?

[FlyingLaptop]

@darkfunkychimp Well, we just have to wait for GaiKai or GameString. Or the new Games for Windows Live. (I think it's cloud gaming)

[pc4gamers]

@IWentInsane 14mbps fucking australian bigpond =D

[CatXFlash]

The probs with the service is that once you buy a full price game at $60 or $50 or w/e it cost you lose it after 3 months and will have to re buy it at full price. They say they are streaming at 720p and when I play the picture looks all fuzzy and they mess with the game setting in games and make it look all crappy so they can stream it easy. II recommend only using the service for demos but even for that it just feels off. The controls goes crazy at times. maybe in a few more years. Gaikai.

[quaedevelopment]

So what if there are people out of business... that's the way evolution works dude... when the industrial revolution came at first it was hell for everyone... but in the long run that's why your using your gadgets today. Get it?

There are down sides to this cloud crap too of course... but the industrial rev had 'em too.

[oMRCHUCKo]

Oh, that Netflix streaming thing will never take off....

All silliness aside, cloud-based gaming looks appealing to me because they have redundancy in their equipment and it's less prone to failure than say a DVD exposed to the environments. If they can get it down to a Netflix style, subscription based, unlimited play payment method, than kiss your consoles goodbye. People don't want to "feel" like their buying games. That's why I'm fine with watching junk TV channels and shows. It's included.

[bilashhossain]

& i agree with technology slowing down; they can just supply Onlive servers with new hardware & stop releasing new hardware for PC builders

[bilashhossain]

$180 a year

$360 in 2 year. I'd rather spent a little more upgrading my own parts than relying on a server & fast internet speed