OnLive may seem unnecessary to most PC gamers. It’s a streaming service that offers games at a less-than-perfect resolution, which doesn’t fit into our need for graphical perfection. So why should PC gamers have OnLive installed on their systems?
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."
I would consider onlive but my bandwith isnt good enough but I am going to continue following it.
I decided to try it out as I have a pretty good internet speed and 100gb/month usage. It's a lot better than I thought, though I prefer gaming on my PC for proper. Can't hurt to play a little demo or 2 or rent a game for your laptop on a weekend away.
Good useful article :)
I got a steam account, so I really never considered live; but maybe live isn't so bad after all.
"Why Every PC Gamer Needs OnLive"
Its this a joke or what!!!, please tell me?
I have 259 games now on Steam 99% I can max out at 1920 by 1080 with 8xAA, plus I can play at least 100 in 3D 15 being native 3D.
Also I have all the benefits of PhysX and Cuda.
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Online - Batman: Arkham Asylum no PhysX or 3D Vision support
PS3 - Batman: Arkham Asylum no PhysX or 3D Vision support
360 - Batman: Arkham Asylum no PhysX or 3D Vision support
Also these 3 version run at 720P and with only Onlive running more than 0xAA
Only benefit is to rent games I'm not sure of and play demos without downloading.
Here is the real article title Why Every Console Gamer Needs OnLive
I still don't buy into it. Although I did hear them talk about incorporating into newer televisions or using it in hotels to replace that BS Nintendo 64 they try saddling you with...