OnLive!
 

Holy SH*T!

Now, I know there are obvious issues with this, input lag being the biggest one, but these guys, backed by some pretty heavy publishers, seem to know what they're doing.

I know the PS3/PSP does something similar with pretty sh*tty results, but if this actually works, it could turn the industry on it's head. And if the price point really is as cheap as they say, it also makes it insanely affordable. This has the potential to be HUGE.

That's pretty awesome! I think the only concern I had was something you brought up, which was the input lag. But the major one that would tick me off is a lag in video feed, and it sounds like they have enough dedicated servers to put that issue to bed.

Oh sweet mama Mary Joseph Jebus, this will be epic if/when it comes to fruition.

This is pretty sweet technology, would be nice to have a server farm up near the border of Canada when they get this up and running. I can see sadly the Canadian market getting screwed with all the ISP's up here have the market, there is no one else, and they throttle your bitorrent at peak times during the day, I can see them throttling this type of traffic, seeing it would be quite a bit of traffic constantly. But would be very sweet to try it out. I would be a subscriber, have a check on it, test it on all my machines, ranging from netbook to crap to quad core machine. Can't wait to see more on this.

Edit: Also wouldn't this be extreme bandwidth? What about ISP's that only allow for 20-30gb a month, pretty much all providers in Canada have switched to 60gb for their average high speed connections.

I can't wait to see what they have in store tonight at 7:15 PDT or 10:15 EST:
http://www.onlive.com/

Which is why I said there are obvious issues. But the fact that someone is actually taking a run at this is the reason it's so intriguing.

And by all accounts, people in the states have the exact same problems when it comes to their ISP as some people here do. Obviously, there will be problems for those people, but that's the way cutting-edge technology works. Not everyone is going to be able to use the latest technology without issues.

That is for sure but we shall see. I will be testing this out when it becomes available.

This looks promising. I hesitate with new things like this, but the technology is out there. I'll wait to see what others have to say about it.

This won't get anywhere until global internet infrastructure is updated. We've got net neutrality issues in the states as it is with providers wanting to cap connections. Until then, this won't get anywhere, but it is the coolest concept of the decade. It'll just take a while for global internet conditions to catch up.

Hell, if done properly, it could DESTROY the console market completely...which I don't want because I love to own copies of my products.

I really don't know what to make of this yet.

http://www.gameplayer.com.au/gp_docu...ls.aspx?Page=3

Interesting article, but I think the author's a bit of an idiot.

"I'd rather download my porn AND play games... boo hoo, this idea will fail."

F*** outta heeeere.

I guess there are analysts who are already predicting this to be the downfall of Gamestop.

I don't see why. I mean...this is a pretty PC-centric thing. That's the entire point of it. Never upgrade your computer to play PC games again. Exactly how much of the revenue of Gamestop come from PC games? Most of them have sh*tty small PC sections now, anyways.

The console market isn't going to be effected by this at all. You think any of the big 3 are going to just let you pay a fee to some other company to stream games to your TV? Not f*cking likely.

Whoever said anything like that is a complete idiot. Most analysts probably shouldn't have a f*cking job, anyways, but the ones who are so misinformed as to say crazy sh*t like that need to fired immediately.

Perhaps this wouldn't be the downfall of consoles, but it certainly could put PC's back in the game big time. But with this recession, it will be seven-ten years at best before internet speeds even get in range for this to work.

Yeah, I never really got how people predicted this to be the end of consoles. This is simply more of an alternative, like Netflix vs. buying movies from retailers. If anyone really thought OnLive would monopolize the video game biz, then they're really overrating and giving this thing waaay more credit than it deserves.

And I highly doubt this would bring the three main hardware manufacturers out the woodworks. The fact that this system won't have the console exclusive material to make it a serious competitor is enough to know it won't be a destructive force in the business or anything.

Still, it's probably one of the best ideas the business has heard in a looong time.

I don't think this will have a big impact on console or even PC gaming like the analysts mentioned above say, but the idea does have a lot of potential. It will be interesting to see how they deal with lag in both sending the input (as mentioned earlier) and receiving the video. While the <1 ms estimate mentioned by the creators is just plain unrealistic, they could probably get decent results with anycasting similar to how Akamai and OpenDNS work.

The person writing that article about how it would fail, I just wish people like this would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyways yeah the speed is unrealistic, but I don't think people are seeing the big picture, everyone is jumping it saying OH LAG IS GOING TO RUIN IT, ITS GARBAGE, BAH IT WILL FAIL! Its not the way it is right now, with like TMB and others have said, speeds might not be the problem, more or less distance from servers, hop count, and the fact that providers have so many restrictions, and would put a nice throttle on this activity really quickly I feel. Its the idea of a new future, a new way to game, like people said, you don't need a high end PC, or even a PC in general to play PC games, install a applet into a web browser, or buy the box they provide, with controller which will run what? Probably around 99.99-149.99? And here you go, you can play PC games, without having to constantly upgrade, like they said, they will provide the hardware upgrades, so when they launch this, there might be a large ammount of problems, but with everything, it takes time to perfect something so good. And yeah like Peanut said, you are lucky to find PC games in stores, and if they are, they are dirt cheap because they don't sell. Consoles will still strive, but like others said, PC gaming will be brought back.

I expect to be bombarded by advertisements.

What are you even talking about?

Commercials, like Hulu. Making you watch them before you can play the game. Or am I just stupid?

Pretty much.

I think it makes some sense. I guess the idea of them shoehorning advertisements in there wouldn't particularly surprise me.