With the recent drop of monthly fees, OnLive seems to be a perfect option for gamers. However, will it draw people away from their PSWii360s?
Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat writes: "OnLive has teamed up with British game retailer Green Man Gaming to resell subscriptions for OnLive’s cloud-gaming subscription service. The deal is the first of its kind in which a game retailer resells OnLive’s online bundles of games delivered via web-connected data centers, or the cloud."
With all the recent subscription services increasing in popularity including EA Access and PS Plus, The Game Fanatics decided to take another look at OnLive and how it could be the dark horse in the video game streaming race.
I still have onlive and compared to psn now it seems faster response time, and the ui is tons better. Imho.
Samit Sarkar of Polygon writes: "War Thunder, the free-to-play military MMO from Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment, is launching today on CloudLift, the cloud-based gaming service from OnLive, the latter company announced today.
CloudLift, which OnLive debuted this past March in open beta, is a subscription-based service that allows players to "lift" a limited selection of Steam titles they already own to the cloud, and then stream them to a variety of devices without needing to download the full game. Those devices include Mac- and Windows-based computers, as well as TVs and Android tablets. Because CloudLift is integrated with Steam, save games are synced across devices."
See that's good. Without the monthly fees it seems like something I could possibly have a use for.
At the very least I'll give it a look see.
I'm pretty attached to my ps3 (and the exclusive games) but onlive might be worthwhile for renting multi platform titles. There's a lot of games that come out for both consoles that I'd only play through once.
Personally I think it would be more convenient to rent through onlive than a videostore.
Maybe it will surprise me and be better than that.
This is definitely a step in the right direction for OnLive! And it's really awesome that the free games they gave out are actually free games, and not just free yearlong rentals.
Agreed with mokmoof. This definitely has a ton of potential, and it doesn't hurt that the the pad looks frikkin sweet.
Looks like they might actually have a future now.
i dont think so. Onlive wont ever be worth while...imo.