Soleron said:
My original config was using the CHEAP HD 5570 (~$60) which would play current games at that resolution. You then said it was worth paying more in order not to have to upgrade the hardware. I then said if you paid more for a really expensive graphics card like the HD 5870 then it would last a lot longer and you'd be paying for the privilege. A decent gaming PC is cheap. OnLive is expensive. A gaming PC you won't have too upgrade is expensive. |
In short, I am going to ask this:
Do you believe the model currently used by PC will be continued indefinitely, or do you believe eventually cloud computing is the future of computing? In short, is Cloud Computing NEVER going to supplant the PC's current model to be able to do gaming? Or, a more specific question about the technology of OnLive, do you believe Cloud Computing, to render graphics over a network, and have computing done elsewhere, will serve NO function at all in gaming at any point? OnLive will end up going bankrupt and no one will end up taking anything from it to any degree?
If you are saying that OnLive is going to fail, but in the next decade or two, it will become part of the ecosystem of gaming in a relevant manner, I would be able to agree that. If you believe it will fade away, and computing power will still reside on the client side FOREVER, then I would debate you on it.
