OnLive will be on the OUYA

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yaydod

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So they just updated their Kickstarter page, and their will be OnLive on their console, which means you will be able to play some (if not allot) of AAA games.

Unfortunately OnLive is (if I understood right) a game streaming service, so you don't play the game on your console directly but you will be playing it on one of their servers, so it means you better have a damn good Internet connexion.

Here is the article for the lazy ones.
Hey Kickstarters!

We?ve got an awesome update to kick off the weekend.

We know you?ve been dying to see more of OUYA and its controller -- and today, you just might get lucky. ;)

But first, we have some big news... we have been telling you that OUYA can deliver a great gaming experience, and some of you asked about one app in particular. Well, we are proud to reveal...

OnLive is coming to OUYA!

Through OnLive, OUYA will offer hundreds of playable titles from great publishers. Hundreds of games, streamed right to you, on demand. Pretty sweet.

But you don?t want to hear us drone on and on. Let?s hear it straight from OnLive:

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When OnLive first heard about OUYA, we were excited to see console gaming becoming more available and open. Like OUYA, we came to gaming with a new vision for making top-quality gaming accessible to more people, and we continue to look for ways to expand on that vision.

OUYA is rethinking the console business, making waves by using standard technology to make gaming for your living room accessible, affordable and more innovative than ever. In OnLive's case, we pioneered a groundbreaking, cloud-based system that instantly delivers games to any device on demand.

We are pleased to announce that OnLive will be available on OUYA at launch, extending and building on our commitment to make the best games available to everyone, everywhere.
What does that mean for OUYA backers?

OnLive will deliver a full console-class experience, bringing hundreds of top-tier games from more than 80 publishers to the OUYA console for play on demand.

OUYA owners will be able to jump in and play any of these games both at home on their OUYA console, and on the go on PCs, Macs, tablets and phones, never leaving a game behind.

Instant demos will be available for nearly every game in our ever-growing library?from eagerly anticipated indie titles like Ravaged, to hot blockbusters like the upcoming Darksiders® II. Players can experience up to 30 minutes of each game for free before deciding what to buy. If they like it, they can continue playing where the demo left off.

OnLive already delivers a premium gaming experience to tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs, connected TVs and HDTVs via the OnLive® Game System or dedicated streaming devices like the VIZIO Co-Star. We?re pleased to deliver the same OnLive experience on the OUYA console when it launches next year.

?Bruce Grove, General Manager, OnLive

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We know some of you guys will like this news. People like Marios Santos Ramos, Thomas Iwancio, and Phil (That?s right, he wants to be known as Phil. Just Phil.) took to the keyboard to suggest an Onlive partnership.

?Having a dedicated and open console and being able to log into your OnLive account would make this machine a dream in the living room. ? -Marios Santos Ramos

?Any chance you could talk to OnLive about supporting their service through this box?? -Thomas Iwancio

?This is awesome. Let?s get an OnLive app here.? -Phil

Well, I guess that about wraps it up--what?s that? Oh yeah! The controller! Silly me.

Scroll down, my friends. Scroll down. Feast your eyes upon the latest images of the OUYA controller and console. Please note that the design is still in progress--but we couldn?t hold out any longer. We needed you to know that the controller has two handles. You can hold it in both hands.

P.S. We're still deciding on the buttons. For now, we've stuck with the colored circles as placeholders. But don't fret, we won't leave out colorblind gamers. :)




And now they show what their console is going to look like and their controller too.

Captcha: Best Seller. Maybe, that would be great.
 

Scrustle

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That sounds awesome, although the controller doesn't look that great. The hand grips look a bit bulbous.
 

bluesession

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Thats good and all (having onlive) but unless the ouya comes with a new super speed information transfer technology... the onlive servers will still not work for most of the world.

I'm still buying the ouya on day one.
 

Weaver

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I would demand my money back, if I gave them any. The point of the Ouya was a market place of freemium games. The point was to break away from the AAA industry and do your own thing for the little guys on an open Android platform. Now they're basically supporting the AAA industry again and promoting a closed platform for it.

If wanted to buy and play big budget games I have 4 platforms to play them on at the moment, I don't need another, and I'm firmly against everything OnLive represents. People in my country have severe bandwidth limits, streaming via OnLive absolutely has noticeable lag if you try it and you don't own a damn thing you buy.
 

DustyDrB

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AC10 said:
I would demand my money back, if I gave them any. The point of the Ouya was a market place of freemium games. The point was to break away from the AAA industry and do your own thing for the little guys on an open Android platform. Now they're basically supporting the AAA industry again and promoting a closed platform for it.

If wanted to buy and play big budget games I have 4 platforms to play them on at the moment, I don't need another, and I'm firmly against everything OnLive represents. People in my country have severe bandwidth limits, streaming via OnLive absolutely has noticeable lag if you try it and you don't own a damn thing you buy.
That's what I was thinking. One of their biggest points was "free to play" or at least a free demo. Isn't OnLive subscription-based?

Edit: I looked into it myself. OnLive did have a subscription model, but they dropped it [http://kotaku.com/5655455/onlive-monthly-subscription-fees-are-dead] a good while back. So this seems better now.
 

MisterShine

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DustyDrB said:
Isn't OnLive subscription-based?
No. There's a subscription you can get that gives you X number of the games to play for 'free' every month, then every month they rotate some of the games in and out of the list.

Also it should be noted that every* game on OnLive has a demo.

*(every game I've ever looked at)

OT: This is a pretty big deal, at least for American and UK Ouya customers where OnLive actually works. Now that sad list of "what 20 games do you want to see on Ouya?" isn't so sad anymore, since like half of those games are actually on OnLive.
 

Space Spoons

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As I've said before, I'll be astonished if this thing actually makes it to market. Anybody remember Phantom? That's the vibe I'm getting from Ouya.