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Nintendo, Sony and MS 'will never support OnLive'

The Big Three platform holders – Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo – will not support OnLive with their software, according to Gaikai founder David Perry.

"A pretty obvious difference between Gaikai and OnLive is the fact that they'll never have a Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft game on their system," Perry told Develop in an interview published today.

"OnLive is trying to directly compete with the platform holders," said Perry, speaking of the TV-tethered micro-console that OnLive can run on.

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Chris3996155d ago

With their own software and licensing fees? Kudos to OnLive for being the first to do this, but I doubt that they will be the last or the most successful - not by a long shot.

locos856155d ago

Good because I won't support On-Live. I prefer my games to be played from my home. Not of a server in a faraway land.

Syronicus6155d ago

Especially since OnLive is competition for the three companies? It's silly to think that OnLive will ever be a part of the three. They are competitors, not partners.

likedamaster6155d ago

"Why would they support OnLive...?
Especially since OnLive is competition for the three companies?"

-I agree. I would still get this service especially with what you can do, i.e. like watch others all over the world playing games, record gameplay, etc. Not a bad service actually, considering what it offers and the absurd amount of games coming out all at the same time. You could have played more than ten games in a month and would have only payed $50(supposing it's that much per month) opposed to roughly $600 if you were to buy all those games.

darthv726155d ago

you would think MS would be all over that. Yet they have their own streaming service coming to games soon. No doubt sony will offer something similar after observing the results. Nintendo just doesnt have the infrastructure in place to support a service (yet).

IdleLeeSiuLung6155d ago

OnLive gaming will be like how you deal with web hosting companies when your site goes down and it was running before and you didn't make any changes. The problem must be on your end!

That is why I will probably never support OnLive, I see no reason to support a service that is likely to be more laggy than the current model. Even though the multiplayer games could be hosted on OnLive server, the video stream and the input received is still likely to be worse than the current system. One interesting side benefit though is that cheating is probably harder.... Perhaps this would be the driving factor.

FamilyGuy6154d ago

Seems to me that OnLive competing more with "Games for Windows" than the console specifically.

SinnedNogara6154d ago

Why would Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft support OnLive?? It is their competing console. It's like if Nintendo decided to put "Super Mario Galaxy" on PlayStation Store. It will never happen.

DeadlyFire6154d ago

I say OnLive will most likely stay out of console circuit for awhile. Although they did offer that they would partner with anyone. Unless someone new comes along. Microsoft might jump into it. You never know. Apple or EA could also partner up.

GaiKai will most likely be happy to join Nintendo and Playstation. As it is more of a freeish open type service. Even has Mario Kart with hopes for more games from other platforms. Said that Mods will be supported as well. Although must be created through the service as it would be saved on cloud service, but so far that is better than what I have heard about game mods for either of the other two services. GaiKai looks to be better out of the 3 so far.

OTOY service will most likely be ready for Microsoft to jump into. As it is the only service that has been Demoed with an Xbox 360 controller so far. So its very likely it could work on Xbox 360. Controller though could of just been testing thing. Might work with other controllers as well. Not much has been said about this service just yet. Just a few videos on Youtube. Also has videos on Youtube of some great graphics promised, but I don't know what that means if anything for their gaming service. They partnered with AMD for it I believe.

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belal6155d ago

onlive will nevvver be better than a console.

more people will buy console over an onlive system.

shiner6155d ago

I believe as recent as a few months ago, I heard MANY a MS/Sony fan saying their respective console will NEVER support motion controls.

SinnedNogara6154d ago

The thing is if you are a gamer with no Internet, and buy this thing (people who don't come here will) you will be SCREWED. Also if you have a crappy connection it will probably be laggy.

And the BIG first-party games won't be on the system either.

sam22366155d ago

I'm not surpried, OnLive is never going to work anyway.

BX816155d ago

Humph! Technology confuse Thag!!! Thag make fire keep meat-a-sorus at bay! Humph!

Major_Tom6155d ago

Perhaps online doesn't work for you, but it works out great for us people with fast internet.

sam22366155d ago (Edited 6155d ago )

You do know that not everyone has fast internet, right? There's also two little things called lag and contention rate.

How are they going to stream a game like Crysis over the internet without it lagging like hell?

Seriously, OnLive is going to fail.

EDIT: And yes, they're using Crysis to market OnLive.

Xi6155d ago

or flushed packets?

How will online deal with these factors, specially with games that require percise timing.

Major_Tom6155d ago

Yes I do know not everyone has fast internet and that's why I ended my sentence the way I did.

If anything that is something more centered on competitiveness Xi not really that important in a single player game. By the way you can already try an example of OnLive it's more rudimentary but works under the same construct and it works whether you choose to believe it or not. With proper work being done OnLive can work great.

Don't be afraid of change.

Xi6155d ago (Edited 6155d ago )

Good look trying to play a game like DMC4 or streetfighter 4 or even assassins creed over onlive, half the time regular input with no lag still misses certain combinations or timing let alone what what will happen over a connection. And with games like dante's inferno, bayonetta, Castelvania, AC2 coming out it's not like there's only 1 game that might be affected.

And what about when the services or your provider are doing matainence and you're off line, you can't play any games.

Major_Tom6155d ago

You're arguing rhetoric right now there is no use in trying to demean it when you don't have your hands on it. I'm not saying it will be great but for us people who want a change and want to check it out I'm sure they will have their own install base, and for people like yourself who absolutely refuse this is even possible that's great glad you do.

Xi6155d ago

No I'm basing this off of logic and current trends. People who believe in onlive are people believing in a pipe-dream and should come back down to reality.

Onlive is the phantom 2 and look at how far the original got.

Major_Tom6155d ago

Lol whatever, conversation is done.

MegaPowa6155d ago

Don't you think they would of researched into that for gods sake i mean seriously they're not idiots 400mil went into this crap i don't think they would overlook stuff like that

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin3376d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905821d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5821d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905821d ago (Edited 5821d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5821d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5821d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5821d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495821d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5821d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5821d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn3412d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One