And onlive hasnt made any money, nor is it anything but a rip off.

That's great, but where are your exclusives? Oh right..

Onlive would be great if you did not need like a 25mbps down speed in order to get good visuals. If that is to much then its at least 15mbps I would recommend. The service has great potential but in order for them to make money. They need a lot of people with very high down speeds and that is just not gonna happen right now.

If they can keep on going, Its gonna be a slow start but in the end I feel they could become very successful.

Lol such services are the future , but Onlive is overconfident in the idea they might be a part of the future .

They aint even trying to have a service that makes any profit . It appears obvious they are positioning themselves in order to get bought by any other big company ... be it sony , ms , nintendo , or hell even valve , ea or the likes of gamestop .

It's not a bad strategy , except if no one bites and decides to do their own equivalent at their own cost , leaving them in the dust .

They have no content of their own , that's the big weakness in their plans . They need big onlive only ips asap or anything like WoW

call me when you can guarantee my internet will never, ever, go down and your servers will never break.
oh wait, that's impossible.

and even if it were, i prefer to own the games i buy thank you very much.

for MMOs and that type of game though, onlive could be good.
if the games are responsive enough played that way.

I think even when the speed and infrastructures are there, it still won't be that popular. Will it make them money? I think so.

Will I use such a service? No. I like physical copy or at least what steam allows. Back up. I like the ability to play offline.

A quick connection drop could be enough to ruin an online only gaming experience. Maybe they have a solution that allows your game to pause if in case you lose connection? I don't know, if not, they could work on that.

As for console gaming doing this, I hope not as I am very hesistant of DD already. If I had a choice between DD and Physical copy, it's physical copy for me. Games are already upset about the whole Capcom DRM that requires online all the time same for Ubisoft with Driver on PC. I can't see these same people support Online. Online require DRM is a no no but online game stream is a-okay? Not much of a difference if you ask me aside from the latency and graphic quality.