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OnLive Pros and Cons

Ever since they have announced OnLive to the public, I(Owner of E4G) have been quite interested in it. I think the top reason to have this service for the PC is that people don't have (or cannot afford) a top of the line computer. With this service you are able to play almost any game that is on their servers. So far they only have a few amounts of games from Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. I hope that more companies will plan to put their games on the service. Here is my list of Pros and Cons of why you should and should not get OnLive.

Amio6258d ago

These are the worst pros and cons I have ever seen.

"Ability to see anyone who is playing a game so you can laugh or be amazed on how good they are." -- Seriously? A pro is the ability to see anyone so you can LAUGH at them?

Someone should tell the author that you don't "download" the games, it's all streamed. Watch the video and the presentation tells you that.

Who the hell cares if it looks like an xbox controller? All controllers look similiar to one another, minus nintendo's controllers.

Horrible article, IMO.

dkblackhawk6258d ago

It is one of his first articles he was probaly being sarcastic at the laughing part but i say it is a good article, better than the last to 10 reason to not get on live that i watched.

MNicholas6258d ago

The business model is not feasible given today's infrastructure and maintenance costs. Something like OnLive might be possible in a few years if hosting cost goes down and the internet service providers allow sustained high bandwidth services to use their "pipes" or perhaps even offer a similar service directly to their customers just as they offer VOD.

Right now there's no way to make money on it and there's a very real and substantial risk that very thing that makes such a service possible, the customers' broadband internet connection, will not support it due to ISP interference (from induced latency to outright blocking) and pricing (such as bandwidth caps), all of which, btw, are already common practice.

Then again investors have pumped millions into Paul Moller's "flying car" ... proof that there's no shortage of stupid people with lots of money.

DNAgent6258d ago

Pros: It could easily work in Japan

Cons: It will never work in America with dumbass companies like Time Warner now capping internet usage and with no competition which means our internet will never evolve again.

If they do go through with this then i'm going back to 56k and getting rid of cable seeing as how they are going to be restricting me anyways and most of the shows on TV these days suck.

Redempteur6258d ago

CONS - not possible to be technicaly good until at least 2014

i don't want to pay to be able to rent online a game to play it in a limited area with lags not even in HD ..

Pandemic6258d ago

Can't you just import ''OnLive''?

dkblackhawk6257d ago

It would be nice if this would be global. Hopefully they do that in a future update or something.

RedSoakedSponge6258d ago

What?! I didnt know it was only for the USA! I was getting so excited and now I cant get one. I dont understand. Whats wrong with releasing one in the UK, just for UK gamers? Idiots :@

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio30d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing30d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9230d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit30d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing30d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9230d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."