NowGamer - OnLive and cloud gaming – what is it and should you be interested? All your questions answered here.
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."
"A 'full period' is defined as “as long as OnLive supports a game”. OnLive told us that it expects to support games while people are playing them, but also said that it would support games for a minimum of 3 years from when they’re released on OnLive."
So how is this better than me actually owning a game? Its not
What happens if I want to play a game after 3 years? I guess full isnt so full, and you still dont own the game
Good to know
£14.99 for Batman: Arkham Asylum, I don't count that as great value considering I haven't bought it for life.
I think I'll just stick to pc and console gaming thank you very much.
That's not to say I'm knocking the technology behind it, it's a very clever way of allowing people to play games, but it's not right for me in its current form. I can get the games cheaper and play them in higher resolutions with better visual quality, so it's no good for me.
The technology is clever, but I don't see this taking off at all.
For a start not everyone has great internet, secondly there are those like myself who prefer to have physical copies and also Onlive doesn't have that many games for it. Where are the exclusives? oh, it doesn't have any either.