This is not cheaper than buying a new console or upgrading your computer every 5 years. Or better looking. Be aware that even youtube lags.
OnLive: The future of gaming is here
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I don't know. This is a really cool concept and I can see it becoming successful. But completely replacing consoles? Not so much. I like the idea of physically owning a game and being able to play it whenever I want without having to worry about my crappy connection.
This technology still needs to catch up with the world. And its cause its still years ahead of its time.
Most of the world still doesnt have fast and stable net connections.
But still lots of people complain about digital distribution as it is...But we shall see how this goes.
Might be a good thing...or might be the shit.
Most of the world still doesnt have fast and stable net connections.
But still lots of people complain about digital distribution as it is...But we shall see how this goes.
Might be a good thing...or might be the shit.
No no no, you're missing the point.Simriel said:
It isn't streaming the files to you. That would make your point totally valid (And what I thought when I first read it).
It actually streams JUST the video and audio output. So it's like watching a movie on Youtube, except way faster and better looking.
I think this kicks ass, to be honest.
I could just get that netbook I've been wanting ans still be into PC gaming!
Sign my ass up.
Who is talking 100 bucks a month?Maraveno said:make it an open beta U twitslet us all have a taste of what is onlive
and why does it have to be expensive again?? I don't think allot of people are waiting for monthly bills of 100 pounds/euro's/dollars just to be able to play games being it a WoW subscription or one to xboxlive combined with this
The article mentioned $100 for the 'console' version, but not as a monthly fee. In fact, it made a point to say specifically that they haven't worked out monthly pricing yet.
Seems interesting but people are going to need a good connection which, in the UK where BT holds the monopoly with their shitty copper wires, people might not have.
Nvidia are probably shitting themselves. Although, as Erana said, you'll still need a decent graphics card to actually display the video, especially with things like Crysis.
having glaced trough the essential points of the article, my first response was "christ almighty", and i'm not joking, or trying to anoy anyone; the idea is actually incredible. it would be amazing they could get it to work well, and be accepted. i'm not sure it'll be embraced by everyone, but it's certainly a damn good idea
I think the idea is very cool.
In fact, I thought the idea was very cool in my thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.101860] about OnLive, which curiously has almost the exact same thread title and was posted before yours.
I don't want to be a dick or anything, but just saying.
In fact, I thought the idea was very cool in my thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.101860] about OnLive, which curiously has almost the exact same thread title and was posted before yours.
I don't want to be a dick or anything, but just saying.
Im still optimistic. It's a huge step for the whole industry and can truly change the way we think about games. Even if the lag kills the whole system. Even if subscription fees are trough the roof. Even if it will need 100mb connection to run.
Someone will come along and fix these problems!!!
Thats how it works!!
Someone will come along and fix these problems!!!
Thats how it works!!
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/965/965535p1.htmlSomeBritishDude said:
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I like how 'is here' means at earliest Winter 09.
Could be interesting, could be an unsupported piece of trash (it has 9 ok to terrible developers backing it now, but it remains to be seen how loyal they remain to it).
So Vaporware or Console killer? The answer? Who the hell knows.
Copying myself from the News Room thread on this:
Does no-one else in this world live behind a "fair use policy" or "download limit" or similar? I've seen figures touting requirement of a 5Mbps connection required for an HD-quality game. If you're maxxing out that connection speed then lets do some quick maths:
8 bits to a byte: 5Mbps -> 0.625MBps
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes to an hour: 3600s/hour
So gaming for an hour requires: 2250MB of data = 2.198GB.
I reckon I can get about two and a half hours of HD gaming per month.
Now there's a good chance that the connection speed required wont be the full 5Mbps, but the OnLive folks are hardly likely to be massively over-estimating the requirements in their own press releases.
Adjusting my maths for a 1.5Mbps connection means that 5GB of bandwidth is soaked up after less than 10 hours of gaming in a month. I am (courtesy of my landlord) on a connection from Tiscali (one of the UK's leading broadband providers) who regularly shaft my connection after 6pm on the basis that we (in a student house I share with some torrent-whores) have exceeded the company's limits on "fair-use". And by "shaft" I mean, YouTube isn't worth the effort.
We're all on a gaming forum so I'm guessing the propsect of 20 minutes of gaming per day seems rather low. Until the broadband networks over here are upgraded to the point where limitless use is available, OnLive will not succeed.
Does no-one else in this world live behind a "fair use policy" or "download limit" or similar? I've seen figures touting requirement of a 5Mbps connection required for an HD-quality game. If you're maxxing out that connection speed then lets do some quick maths:
8 bits to a byte: 5Mbps -> 0.625MBps
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes to an hour: 3600s/hour
So gaming for an hour requires: 2250MB of data = 2.198GB.
I reckon I can get about two and a half hours of HD gaming per month.
Now there's a good chance that the connection speed required wont be the full 5Mbps, but the OnLive folks are hardly likely to be massively over-estimating the requirements in their own press releases.
Adjusting my maths for a 1.5Mbps connection means that 5GB of bandwidth is soaked up after less than 10 hours of gaming in a month. I am (courtesy of my landlord) on a connection from Tiscali (one of the UK's leading broadband providers) who regularly shaft my connection after 6pm on the basis that we (in a student house I share with some torrent-whores) have exceeded the company's limits on "fair-use". And by "shaft" I mean, YouTube isn't worth the effort.
We're all on a gaming forum so I'm guessing the propsect of 20 minutes of gaming per day seems rather low. Until the broadband networks over here are upgraded to the point where limitless use is available, OnLive will not succeed.
