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Jaywood2010 on 24 March 2013
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Dgc1808 said:
JayWood2010 said:
kitler53 said:
JayWood2010 said:

Not really. It looks like a great console and im sure it will be successful but many things that they are doing has been done before. Even sharing was already done by Onlive. Onlive was very interesting but the problem lays with the fact that people's internet is just not good enough for a lot of the stuff that they are doing. That is something galkai is going to have issues with. For the people who can use it are going to love it but there will be tons that cant use it.

Anyways why is it suppose to be revolutionary exactly? The last revolutionary thing that happened to the industry was motion controls and to many that could have hurt the industry as much as it has helped


motion control was done tons of times prior to the wii and it still changed the industry.  as it has been discussed a million times before, it's not really who does it first but who makes it popular.

 

OT - maybe.  not so much the hardware but the services surrounding it (gaikia) that has a chance to be revolutionary.  i fully expect something similar from MS but if this truely is the "last gen" and it transitions gaming into being a service not a machine then the word revolutionary will be required to describe it.

lol you act as if im not aware of this haha  

Probably because of the bolded. Your post does seem like you think it won't be a revolution because of a lack of never before seen features.

No, i think it wont be revolutionary because of it has been done before and the internet is what held onlive back.  Same goes to digital.  We are not ready to go completely digital yet.  Technology needs to advance before something like this is available to everybody.  XBL/PSN isnt available to everybody in the world because some people cant get internet but enough people has it to have changed gaming forever.  Galkai looks like it will use a lot of bandwidth although they could shock everybody and it wont, i dont know.  But as of right now going off of what we know then no, most people wont have the internet capable to keep up with galkai.  Not a bad thing because the people who can use it will most likely love it.  Onlive isnt that old.  Motion controls was never implemented right or made mandatory.  XBL or an online component to consoles was tested by Sega and the dreamcast but two things held it back.  Sega's lack of multiplayer games and the lack of making customers happy with the Dreamcast in general.  Halo pretty much popularized online gaming for consoles.  Then you have the CD drive.  I think that is the only one that that took off on it's first try although I could be wrong.  Someobody will correct me if I'm wrong.  

As far as game sharing it has been done and Onlive is still going and has proven to be unsuccessful so far. This isn't something that has been tried years and years ago.  They are still trying.  Becuase Sony is a more popular brand name it has a better chance but they HAVE to make sure people can use it on their internet.  If I was to answer this right now I would say that it is a great expansion on the online infastructure but probably wont take off until interrnet catches up years from now.  Then again as I said before mayb sony and galkai was able to implement this correctly.