We are nowhere near the technology level for this to happen, hell i notice lag when i use a wireless mouse and thats 6 inches from my computer let alone thousands of miles away and needing to transfer from my computer to their servers and back.

The way I see it, it's a closed beta for a reason, for multiple reasons in fact. Well his explanation sounds plausible to me. Cut the guy some slack he's trying to provide a service that has been dismissed as impossible the minute is has been annnounced.

I am excited to see how OnLive turns out once it's released. It's new technology and there has never been a working large scale model of this, so, instead of burning the witch before you've seen for yourself just relax and wait for it.

Which is why Onlive is never gonna work. Idiot.

You guys couldn't hold up 30fps on a light game like Burnout in a CONTROLLED situation. And even if you can work that out, input lag will still be awful.

And the compressed to heck video looks horrible.

I never realized how many people on this site either: work for a developer, have a brother who works for a developer, are in the closed beta for onlive. The last article was full of people yapping about how they were in the beta and there is 0 lag. Worst thing about the internet, it allows people to just lie about anything with no consequences. Duh there is gonna be lag. Anyone who thinks this will run as smooth as having a PS3 or a Xbox 360 is nuts. I have a 16mb/sec cable connection and I still have a hard time downloading faster than about 2mb per sec with most file transfers. The infrastructure isn't there yet.

Comparing 30-60 Hz gaming to controlling a UAV is ludicrous. A UAV can maintain level flight or the last state sent by the controller by itself, and is generally used in fairly open spaces - so it only NEEDs periodic update from the controller for changes that are fairly immune to lag, and the mission can be adjusted according to the connection parameters. So, if they have 5 second lag, they keep the reconnaissance above a proper ceiling, depending on the speed of the plane (a couple hundred feet, perhaps). If they somehow have 20 ms lag, then they can fly between buildings and such if they wish.

"Basically they need more investers for more servers than 3 and it will run great! "

how much money do they have? I'm not saying there won't be more than 3 servers of course there will be more, but I'm just not seeing the economical benefits of this. You pay the publishers a lot of money just to get the game, then you give them royalties, and you also have to maintain servers that hold petabytes of data, and(if this gets as big as people are hyping it to be) be able to handle terabytes, if not petabytes of information exchanged every day.

I forgot what it was called, but I had it when I was a little kid. It was basically the same thing as OnLive but it was made by Sega. It was through the cable company also if I can recall correctly.

Onlive is a great concept, but it will ultimately fail.

While the idea is good, the lag will never be gone until everyone has fiber-optic lines. And even then, we also need a better global network. Currently even with say Verizon FIOS, you'll get latencies of up around 100ms depending on the location your connecting too. And with average latencies being in the 30-60ms. Then when it reach's Onlive's servers there's a bit more average latency. Then the signal is sent back down the same route with the first latency amount added on again.

So you can easily end up with around half second latency. This is a problem that ISP's need to work on. But they are content with not spending money on upgrades to further technological advances. They just care about raking in the cash. Even though it would be great publicity for an ISP to have extremely good latency, they would be afraid it's not enough publicity to justify the millions if not billions of dollars it would take to upgrade a countries infrastructure to support much better latencies.

Good cloud gaming will come, it's just going to be a while.

" So my question is, Where are all the people that were in the last "lag" article about Onlive?"

Nowhere ..people sold to OL or trolls mostly ..

Onlive is a joke ..it can NOT work like this on a large scale

OnLive fanboys?

Give me a break...