About onlive

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Andysw said:

I just discovered onlive a few days ago and it looks impressive technology wise. But these questions rise and need to be answered.

1. Why should I pay a service "just to play a game"? Thats even worse than paying xbox live to just play with other people online

Because you wont need to buy the console, which is 300$ and can RROD.So, for that subscription, you save 300$ and headaches, and only need one subscription to play a game on any system.

2. How on earth is onlive able to contain an infinite amount of video game titles in its servers?

Because they can. They probably have a system where they track trends, and when certain games get more popular they install more copies of it.

3. How am I supposed to play a game if my internet connection goes out?
You don't.

4. Do I need a super fast connection to be able to use onlive?
Nope, you only need 1.5Mbps. Comcast is 3MBps. Notice that it's Megabits" not MegaBytes. bits are much smaller than bytes.

5. What real onlive exclusives are there to justify my purchase?

Crysis on full. Rather than having it's own exclusives, it has all other console exclusives.

6. I prefer tangible media. So why should I buy onlive just to play games I can already play on my current console?

There are pros and cons. One is that you don't need to carry your tangible media around with you, have them stolen, or broken, or anything like that.
What are your thoughts on onlive?

 

I think it's great, but I'll be honest, it will be hard for me to give up my physical media.