Onlive to kill pc gaming LOLL!!

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shio said:

Slimebeast said:
The OnLive idea is stupid. They bring an unneccessary extra step by transfering all the data through the internet from a remote PC instead of the one on your desktop, plus the compression process of the movie lol. Lag would be insane and it will look like crap, in addition to the service being too expensive etc.

In 20 years we could have something similar, although I doubt it, but today it's impossible.

When Valve went to Microsoft to propose them their Digital Distribution concept, Microsoft said to them that such Digital Distribution Service was 10 years too early... you know what Valve did? They made Steam without Microsoft's help! HAHAHAHA Thank God!

 

 

Yeah, but just because Valve were right doesn't mean this lot are.  Steam seemed perfectly sensible at the time (at least to me) both in terms of concept and infrastructure.  Also Valve, apart from the wobble with Half Life 2, have been good are carefully building the service and letting it grow.

OnLive is promising massive jumps right from the start, with hard to believe claims technically and a much more dubious position with reference to infrastructure - at least IMHO.

Still, at least Steam is great.