I was like..."sweet cant wait to try this"...but then I realized that I can try it alredy with a PC without paying a cent.
And i did...here are my findigs so far.
1. Visual quality is on par with consoles if not slightly worse. Blurry sub 720p stuff...Some games look worse than others, depending how the engine hides compression and resolution drop
2. Frame rate and controller response is good. That isn't a problem for me at all
3. Only about 30-40 games are currently available
4. ~10 minute of playing = 400 megs of bandwith used. Lets say 1 hour per day of usage x 30 days in a month...~72 gigs of bandwith is needed per month for 1 hour of gaming per day
5. User interface can be controlled with keyboard and mouse, and a controller...360 pad in my case.
6. Not all games can be played with a controller. Each game has a listing of what input devices it supports. FEAR 2 for example is mouse and keyboard game only.
7. Lots of cool features, such as the ability to join and observe someone elses game and cheer when they make a nice kill, as well as take movie clips of your game and share with people.
From what I saw, I would say that the service works as advertised. But thats not good enought to steal PC users from Steam. Console owners may want to give this a go...but even that is a mutepoint considering that your freinds list will be empty and you are playing pretty much the same games as you do with consoles.
Only people for which this is a must buy are gamers with little to no money to spend (college students, highschool kids?) who have an older PC and access to a decent internet connection with no bandwith limits.
Onlive gets A for effort though...great idea, cool tech, but no real impact or relevence at the moment.
