OnLive: The Future Of Gaming… Over The Internet To Your TV
OnLive delivers the hottest games from top publishers for instant, high-performance play on TV, PC or Mac over broadband…
Claimed to be in “stealth development” for years, OnLive works by using a server farm to do all work of your current console and then send it over broadband to your house. I’m pretty sure that means that even my single player games will lag now…
When it was first announced, my initial reaction was “Wow, that’s amazing” followed immediately by “But I don’t want to give up that much control over my games.”. And I don’t. I don’t want to rely on so many X factors to access and enjoy my games. I don’t want to rely on the OnLive service functioning, as well as the internet service to deliver it. What if I wanted to travel somewhere that doesn’t have internet? I could take my console. With OnLive I’d be completely cut off.
I don’t want to not “own” the game I’m paying for. I know more and more things are going digital these days, but there’s still a lot of comfort in owning a physical copy of something you paid for. You know it’s there when you need it. I imagine it’s the same reason people purchase the Ctrl+Alt+Del collection books even though all of the comics are available for free online. Sometimes you want tangible stuff that you know can’t disappear with an internet outage or a corrupt hard drive. [Tim at Ctrl+Alt+Del]
As for me and my house, we are keeping our beloved Xbox 360 and Wii for now, but in the future, who knows!
OnLive is currently recruiting for their Beta test. Interested in helping? Me too! More to come.
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Any who, I think this could be used for introducing & converting the non gaming crowd into the wonderful world of gaming.
Think about it they could play games and not leave any evidence with a console or disc laying around for their spouse, GF or friends to see. They can still be cool and get their Geek on when no one is around…. yeah this could be hot if marketed right, what’s there stock index?