Hi people

OnLive, it works on almost every platform, that's right.

http://www.onlive.com/index.html

This platform will support titles by publishers currently on
Xbox 360, PS3 and possibly Wii
And future titles that the current gen consoles cant handle
graphically wise.

OnLive will make upgrading your computer for new games or buying a new generation console obsolete.

OnLive is a new revolutionary gaming platform that uses a plugin into your browser & full screen display to play games on a super cloud-computing server farm while streaming the hi-def video back to you in under a millisecond (reaction times beyond human perception) with their new video compression technology.

(there will be NO response lag. It will perform like LAN)

Consoles will simply never be able to compete with this processing power because everything is run on a SUPER SERVER FARM beyond anything you can buy for home.

So now computers with a GPU from 1995 can play CRISIS on its highest settings as long as you have a:

1.5 M/bit connection (STANDARD DEF)
5 M/bit connection (HIGH-DEF)

Why is this so amazing?
Any computer is turned into a console reguardless of its hardware

All games are played on a sever farm so its LAN gaming online.

The moment a new game is released its already available OnLive to be played.
No waiting to get a game, no need for preorders.
And the games never have to be downloaded. One click and your playing.

OnLive can be played with mouse and keyboard OR a controller
(and you can designate your game to restrict one or the other)

Whats the best part?
Its been in development for 7 years.
..And..
Its available WINTER 2009!!!

The current publishers that are providing games are
More publishers will be added/announced in summer.

Why? Do you think they need it? OnLive works on all platforms :)

I'm curious on what is going to happen :)

Uhm, good luck on getting Nintendo to let their first party games to be released on onlive.

Anyway, I'll buy it if it's cheap as hell. I'm not even spending above €100 on it.

But everyone agrees that it looks really revolutionary!

Oh, so Killzone 2, Gears of War 2 and Super Mario Galaxy are now on Onlive! I'll wrap one onto my PS3 and enjoy Fable II with the Sixaxis!

Most likely the lag will be unbearable for most people, at least in the short-term. In the medium/long-term I see something like this taking off when they install servers in a large number of countries and ISPs, which will reduce lag a lot.

I don't know anyone with a connection which can sustain consistent 30 ms ping times to any but the closest servers. In reality ping times vary during a playing session, which means Onlive will either have jerky framerate or visible lag due to buffering...

It's not going to work. At all. For many, many years.

OnLive requires a 5MB/s connection to work with *little* lag - but still lag.

For action games - especially first person shooters, it's unusable due to the lag. Even if you had a server within ~10 miles, it's still going to be bad. Not to mention the fact that most people that *can* use it are going to be well over 100 miles away and increasing the lag.

The costs for hosting such games is going to be very, very expensive. The cost of hosting games ad-nauseum for older games (think a Halo 3, 5 years from now) will be high, because they still require lots of bandwidth-eating for such a service.

OnLive spouted a lot of claims at GDC, but cannot, and will not deliver anything viable to the market that looks decent.

And again, you MUST have a 5MB/s connection for it to work well. How many people actually have that kind of connection? It *may* work for a game like Civ 4, but that'd be one of the few that'd work. Even then, could you imagine the costs of getting enough computers to host streaming games for 1000's of players at once?

20 years from now, cloud gaming like OnLive may work. But today, it will not.

Oh, and the 1.5mb quote? Guess what: Are you really going to be able to play a game like a Gears of War or Crysis on a screen the size of a standard youtube box? Yeah, thought not.

It's a beautiful sentiment, but I'm afraid it probably isn't very feasible right now.

For one thing, we're going to have to hope that it just kills off Nintendo altogether.

lolol at the "no response lag". so somehow onlive fixes the issues of comcast being dicks?

also - i've seen what games they will be supporting (http://www.onlive.com/partners.html http://www.onlive.com/service/hot_new_games.html). no thank you.

someday in the future i imagine this type of delivery could be successful but onlive won't be it.

Perhaps some VGChartz members living in the US would be interested to sign up for the Beta:

http://www.onlive.com/beta_program.html