I just realized it would let me play StarCraft II, perhaps this is a great idea. :P

The chance to avoid hardware 'walls' when it comes to playing games is the biggest selling point for OnLive.

no.

I wouldn't have heard of Onlive unless i used sites such as this.

That is why it will unfortuantely die.

Does OnLive have any Ps3/360/Nintendo exclusives?Well there goes the talk about consoles becoming obsolete.

Suspended for telling the truth about M$ & 360
Anyways can Onlive do Uncharted 2?

if not my answer is HELL NO

it's too late for a 4th gaming system on the market

Onlive will make itself obsolete.

The thing hasn't got enough support

Can you playing games offline on OnLive? Its sarcasm btw.

"will Onlive have GT5,killzone3,uncharted3,infam ous2,LBP2,etc?"

"will it have 3D?"

"will it have motion control games like on Move?

can i keep my games if i discontinue the service?

no????

then h#ll no!

I haven't seen one commercial or ad for this service. This will probably go under by next year. Most people who never frequently visit gaming sites such as this one probably never even heard of of Onlive. This service is already a failure mostly due to advertising.

I want to see how this thing lags so badly that people will throw it out of there window! Majority of the people can't handle there peripheral lag such as controllers,mouse etc eg:- People complaining about Killzone 2 153ms lag(i never had it).This think is going to be top of all i.e easily atleast 1 sec if you can't handle 153ms imagine 1sec. Cloud computing is future but this is to early and i can assure u it will fail hard!

So this is like streaming games. Games these days are like 8GB, like anybody except japan has a connection fast enough to stream all this data.

Isn't this still 720p? (Can't look at the article)

What's Onlive?

OnLive isn't going to make anything obsolete.

I can see the appeal of OnLive for some people but personally I need my physical media not to mention the need for a good and stable connection to be even able to play.
Can't really see it succeeding for a good couple of years.

Onlive's ultimate failure will easily be that it got no content of its own . It would quickly die the moment ms , nintendo and sony comes up with a clone of their own , along with their exclusives games .

Nor would it matter once other pc actors decides to make their box too

i hope not my internets crap

if in fact onlive does shake up the world of gaming, MS, sony and nintendo will just release their own version of an onlive type system. if anything onlive is the one thats doomed to fail: the big three have stellar exclusive games theyll be selling on this hypothetical onlive like system once they come out with them. onlive itself has ZERO exclusive games.

off topic: im super new to n4g. can anyone tell me how to reply to comments that are a reply?

EPIC LOL TO THIS POST

Those that doubt, should try before selling it down the river..

that will be all

But...I wouldn't laugh too much. If Onlive can improve upon what is already a pretty rock solid foundation they could really be a new threat.

One thing that HAS to happen for them, is they need to launch their Television Adaptor which basically would make Onlive the smallest home console on the market.

I have Onlive now, and while its good it misses that on the couch factor. Its the one thing that keeps me from playing it more.

consoles for life!! onlive? pass!

Even if we all had 10x aggregated fibre lines, it still wouldnd't come close to the computing power within a console. This has to be a joke?

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I play offline most of the time . Like a 60/40 for me . 60% of the time playing offline .

I'll stick with Steam, I'd rather have my games on my HDD , and if the net goes out atleast I can play my single player games offline.
Oh ya.... I don't live in America so I don't have the option anyway.

i don't want to be stuck with no games if i don't have internet or don't want to go online..No thanks.besides all the games i would miss out on..Hello No!

It won't make the console obsolete there are some people who cannot afford the net or live in an area where they still use dial up. Who still enjoy a video game console without taking it online and just play the hell out of it offline.

yeah onlive will be a huge succes, because everybody loves having the games they paid money for being held hostage for a subscription fee, and the thought that they can be taken away at any time and they would get nothing back makes them ecstatic.

i will stick with my in house hardware and games on disc, or downloaded, where they will always be available whether or not i pay a subscription and whether or not my internet is working that day.

of course publishers would love it, we'd never actually own the games we buy and could never trade them in, unless onlive only bought one copy of each game for each server centre.

@38 I agree but you forgot the sarcasm tag in the paragraph someone might think your serious, too many negative factors to make this even halfway appealing at least to me.

@the title Consoles are still more practical, especially if your net f's up, nice idea 20-30 yrs too early to be worthwhile imo, sd content on a 40+ inch isn't a pretty sight usually.

And streaming videos(i assume games would be the same), i have heard isn't anywhere near up to blu ray movie quality or game standards too much compression. So pay a subscription fee to rent games in sd definition vs playing 720p or slightly less depending on the game on the current consoles, gee hard choice.

Lol good luck with getting console people to go with that, pc guys will just use steam.

I know people like to scream read the article before commenting, but if the title looks/sounds like shit usually the article is just as bad, so i'm not going to waste my time reading it.

not any time soon, the internet is not fast enough nor available to the point where onlive can easily replace consoles

Just done quick info search and i came up with these scary numbers...

The processing power of the current gen consoles are as follows:
PS3 218 mega flops
XBOX360 115 mega flops
WII 2.9 mega flops

If we are going to calculate the amount of processing power needed to cover all the 3 current gen users, then we need to multiply each number by the total shipped console for each of the three consoles and we will have these numbers:

37.0M x 218 MFlops = 8.066 Peta Flops
42.3M x 115.2 MFlops = 4.873 Peta Flops
73.3M x 2.9 MFlops = 0.213 Peta Flops
----------------------------- ----------
Total Peta flops needed = 7.48 PFLOPS

The most powerful supercomputer to date is the Cray Jaguar which has a porcessing power of 1.759 Peta Flops.

To cover all the current gen console users, 8 Cray jaguars will be needed and they will be places in different location on this planet to serve each region and to avoid lag.
Politically I don't think this is a visible option of the US government to place such Super computers all around the world for gaming purposes.

Secondly which is the most important aspect is the data transfer rate.

the worst case scenario is to have all the 152M current gen users logged in into the service and having a peak data transfer of 51 tera bit/s
assuming the streamed picture will be 720p for both xbox360 and PS3 with data rate of 440 kb/s (equivalent to 4Mbit/s ADSL connection ) and assuming SD video for the Wii with a data rate of 220 kbits/s)

I really don't think this service will ever see the light, not even in 100 years.

Plus, What will be the capital cost of purchasing these supercomputer when you're starting from nothing and what will be the impact on the pricing of Onlive service due to the high capital cost?

References:
http://www.tgdaily.com/hard...
http://vgchartz.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I think It would sell pretty well here in Sweden some ISP's is offering 300Mbits today I have myself 100/100Mbps fiber, also all broadband connections has unlimited downloads expcept Mobile. The bad were only 9 million people.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau