for the same reason that in the same day you'll see one article saying ps3 or 360 is failing and then see another that says it's the year of the ps3 or 360.
i already saw an article earlier about how onlive could mean the end of consoles as we know it.

N4G is just a junk site for bloggers to dump their trash in an attempt to get hits. There's very little actual news on here.

Exactly, we will know if it fails once its out. Even if it has some points we still dk when this will be out. Same thing was said about blu ray, 360, PS3 & Wii. None fail... till now that is lol

if you read the article it makes several key points im very skeptic that this will take off the ip caps mainly i can see this eating a huge Chunk and second it seems like a majority of the people who have broadband like me have a min 3 mb cable connection and that will more likely result in minmal requirments i did sign up the beta to see how it will go but again my Hopes for this thing isnt close to high for it to be taking off.

_I'm_ Ron Burgundy?

it has features that I haven't seen on any console yet either, like rent almost any game before you buy it, and play it instantly (not to mention when you buy a game, you don't have to download it either, or technically it downloads, but i think i read that its over the super pc local network to your own hdd space, so its like a 5 second wait for the multiple gig file to transfer over, lol)

oh and you get to playback and record clips of the last 15-30 seconds of gameplay (and screen shots), whenever, in every game! that is going to be something that I look forward too. just imagine having the halo 3 system, except you have it 24/7 in any game.

spectating, well you can set it up so your friends or anyone can spectate you, and supposedly, if there is a really good gamer playing a game, there could be a million people watching that one person exactly how they see it.

see my previous post for details. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are charging Live's monthly fee of $8/month rather than the annual fee of $50/yr, this is an investor scam at best.

$8 per month would only cover about 8 hours of HD game streaming. Most gamers will clock 20 hours a week, or 90 hours a month. That's $90/month of hosting cost that has to be recuperated somehow.

Please explain how this business model (streaming game service) makes the slightest bit of sense when the conventional method (disc) of getting all that gameplay to the customer costs only about $1 per disc.