Cloud is the one thats dying already.......no one cares about it

lmao not at all

No, the concept of OnLive is promising; however, with today's world companies are quickly trying to change their plans from monthly payment to pay for a package. This among the fact that most people dont have fast connections, will be holding OnLive back.

Isn't there a consortium agreement going on with almost every internet provider are determining who has control over the web? government or ISP providers

Have you been sleeping the past twenty years?

is that after paying membership and what not, you end up owning nothing. as soon as you stop paying,all that money in subscription will let you with zero games. I still have my Super Nes games, N64 etc, i like it that way

Of course it is it only had some of the biggest profits in the last few years. I think creativity is the only thing dying in the gaming industry as a whole especially on console. There's on so many years sequels will make money. Look at tony hawk, Guitar Hero, Medal of honor and other game series that have stagnated its only the beginning pretty soon half the market will be overflooded with sequels. But hopefully I'm wrong.

"Is console gaming dying?"
OnLive is still missing something that is vital.
Exclusive content.
Thats why ppl buy different consoles. You will never play Zelda, God of War, or Halo on OnLive.

The gaming industry would take a very big hit if gaming were to die off. Contrary to many PC gamers beliefs and I want to assure them that this isn't a dis but PC gaming cannot survive solely by itself. Console gaming, by many PC gamers point of view is slowing down the industry (don't lie I've seen so many PC lovers say this) that is not true in anyway way, shape or form. Consoles are needed for the gaming industry to survive, they're like the kidney(s) of the industry. Consoles got more games into more family households than anything else. But this isn't about the PC or PC gamers.

A lot of money would have to be invested into some type of super tech that will be able t withstand change for sufficient amount of time. And like I said before, consoles have gotten more game into more households and have made many haters of games piss themselves in awe, no matter what console it was on.

More like it's transforming into a PC!

XDXDXDXDXD

one day we could possibly have in a sense "Virtual consoles" paying a subscription for a Sony , Microsoft or whatever that is like Onlive but with exclusives and features or something. Right now the tech is cool but the lag is killing any chance of success plus the marketing is almost non-existent

Please come to my no-count site.

No, neither PC nor console are dying, just because one has a slight sales drop does not equal dying.

also cloud computing will probably pass like a fad and (I hope) it does, nothing like BUYING your games then having to PAY to play them on top of the payment for the internet.

not even close

Onlive as I have heard is very laggy. The only countries ready for this are Japan, South Korea, and Europe. You need a very high speed internet to get great results. Plus not only are they charging 5 bucks a month in service fees. They are also charging 50 bucks a game. The have no exclusives, i don't see onlive going very far, i'm sorry. With pc gaming taking hits because of pirating. I see console as the future for quite some time yet. Untill every country like south korea has a 100 mb internet connection. Wow it sucks in summer time when N4G goes from 50% flamebait to 100% because of lack of real news.

I hate when they say were already at 1080p whats next?

NO NO NO NO NO we have the capability to play in 1080p but were are definatley not playing 1080p games are barely at 720p. I hate hearing kids on xbox saying I'm playing Mw2 on 1080p NO YOU ARE NOT!!!! Rant over

Netflex movie streaming doesn't spell death of DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Downloaded formats of movies. OnLive is a game rental service in disguise as a purchase model. You may be paying a full retail price for a title, but there is a monthly subscription fee you're required to maintain to access these games. OnLive isn't something I am afraid of, even if the internet is good enough for the majority of American families. If anything, media streaming is threat to Blockbuster and other physical media rental businesses.

But what IF Sony, MS, and Nintendo follow suit and kill the console trend, I won't be subscribing to any of these. When it comes to gaming, I want freedom, instead of begging at the mercy of corporations that has the power to end the game for whatever reason they have, vs. YOUR ability to enjoy your investment 10 years or even 50 years from now. Should you stop paying for these services, the company has the ultimate right to destroy your game saves and play passes permanently as they have no obligation to preserve your investment for you. This form of gaming is a service, not a product you buy at a retail store.

lol at calling on live launch a success,more like a disaster.that's a pos that will fail right away.

Right now? Nope.

In the near future? I don't know. But who does?

This article is fortune telling. Fortune telling is really a type of guessing. Guessing tends to be informed and shaped by prejudicial assumptions that people already have, and restrained by the quality and quantity of available information. That means that guessing often tends to result in inaccurate predictions.

Clearly a bad economy where finding a job (or other reliable income source)is difficult will be bad for gaming and will cause contraction of the market and a round of consolidation as weaker companies run out of funding and are absorbed by stronger ones.

nope its very much alive

OnLive isn't the formula that's going to tank console gaming, but make no mistake, cloud computing is the future of gaming.

OnLive's pricing structure and actual lack of ownership will prevent it from rising to the top, but the underlying platform is where it's at. Other services will come along that are similar, and it just takes the right company at the right price to change the face of gaming for good.

Just look at Steam. That platform is MASSIVE, and it now has cloud computing integrated. Not in the way OnLive delivers video, but it does manage to distribute save games, game settings, control schemes and such over the cloud.

The more we begin relying on distributed systems for computing the better, and the sooner the old console paradigm dies off, the better the industry will be.

More like, is pc gaming dying? Console gaming has completely taken over, online and off! Just the truth and not much you can do about it. Anyone that says otherwise is in denial and cant accept the sad fact.

so we have "Is PC gaming dying" articles every day, and now we have "Is console gaming dying"

if you read both articles you brain will explode because that quantifies to: GAMING IS DYING

which its not, it didn't grow this year so far BUT, its not dying

NOTHING IS DYING! STOP ASKING US IF WE THINK GAMING PLATFORMS ARE DYING!

its tiring -_-

one word: lol (ok 3 words :))

Everybody thinks this is "PC vs. Console" (of course, this IS N4G....)

Don't you get it? When all the rendering and processing is done in the cloud, it's not EITHER anymore; it's not console OR PC gaming.. It's just... Gaming. It'll be like television. You turn it on, order it, and there it is. We don't ask if TV is UHF or VHF anymore, either.

GAMING is growing, of course... but the point of the article is that dedicated high-powered processing hardware that you buy and keep on your shelf is what's going the way of the dodo.

Of course, only 10% probably actually, you know, READ the thing...

"Is console gaming dying?"
lol

What a dumb article Console gaming is stronger than ever whoever wrote this is full of sh1t

Videogaming in general is dying. The hula hoop and swingball are coming back in a big way.

Onlive. that thing that you can't even keep your own games.

Stupid question. Answer is No.