By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - PC - Onlive to kill pc gaming LOLL!!

SleepWaking on 13 April 2009
Slimebeast said:
The OnLive idea is stupid. They bring an unneccessary extra step by transfering all the data through the internet from a remote PC instead of the one on your desktop, plus the compression process of the movie lol. Lag would be insane and it will look like crap, in addition to the service being too expensive etc.

In 20 years we could have something similar, although I doubt it, but today it's impossible.

 

In 20 years it will be possible but we wont need it anymore, graphics have almost reached a plateau were progression isn't needed that much anymore plus hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper.



Around the Network
Slimebeast on 13 April 2009
SleepWaking said:
Slimebeast said:
The OnLive idea is stupid. They bring an unneccessary extra step by transfering all the data through the internet from a remote PC instead of the one on your desktop, plus the compression process of the movie lol. Lag would be insane and it will look like crap, in addition to the service being too expensive etc.

In 20 years we could have something similar, although I doubt it, but today it's impossible.

 

In 20 years it will be possible but we wont need it anymore, graphics have almost reached a plateau were progression isn't needed that much anymore plus hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Yeah, that's exactly how I'm thinking.

 



Garcian Smith on 13 April 2009

Haha, no. Nobody is going to pay a monthly fee plus the cost to "buy" games in order to stream a laggy, compressed 720p signal to their TVs that fails if their Internet has problems or if they run afoul of a bandwidth cap.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

SuperDave on 13 April 2009
1337 Gamer said:
jacezo said:
thekitchensink said:
No... having to upgrade your PC to play every new game to its full potential will get slaughtered by OnLive. PC Gaming will be AIDED by this greatly.

 

very good point

I have been thinking this for many years. Soon computers will basically be onlive boxes and we will just have servers to run everything for us. Microsoft and Google and others are already taking the steps to be ready for it. As soon as Broadband becomes more available and much faster. Onlive/Remote servers are the future much like Digital Distribution is the future of media

 

You just gave the #1 reason why this won't happen for years at least.

 



The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.

Reasonable on 13 April 2009

I'm not even convinced it will work in the near future. Certainly it isn't going to work globally for a very long time.

At most this will see a small number of core users in the US - i.e. no it won't kill PC gaming as that market is also weak for PC gaming. PC gaming market is strongest in Europe, Asia, etc. and OnLive (or something similar) isn't going to touch that for a long time.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

Around the Network
SuperDave on 13 April 2009

This seems like it would be adopted faster in Japan where they have much faster broadband connections then we do over here.



The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.

Reasonable on 13 April 2009
SuperDave said:
This seems like it would be adopted faster in Japan where they have much faster broadband connections then we do over here.

 

Yeah, pity they don't play PC games much, the Western titles OnLive seems to be focusing on.

 

 

 



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

SuperDave on 13 April 2009
Reasonable said:
SuperDave said:
This seems like it would be adopted faster in Japan where they have much faster broadband connections then we do over here.

 

Yeah, pity they don't play PC games much, the Western titles OnLive seems to be focusing on.

 

 

 

Ya it's sort of the catch 22, they have the infrastrucutre, but the gamers who would be most willing to use the service are over here.



The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.

Megadude on 13 April 2009

yep. another 10-20 years it may work.



NJ5 on 13 April 2009

No, it will only work for people who have great Internet connections with big traffic caps. So it will be a niche product for quite a while.

The other day I was playing TF2 with a nice 30 ms ping... my girlfriend started downloading a movie using another PC and the ping time went up to 100+ ms (and varying wildly which is troubling for real-time streaming). This of course because both PCs are using the same router and connection.

This made the game bad enough but if I had been using Onlive, it would make playing unbearable. It would also affect single-player games.

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957