Hey guys, don't know if you heard this yet. In US there's this new service called onlive

The idea of onlive is


To summarised, the main idea is to stream the video onto the PC/Mac/Tv. So all the information of the game is stored onto the servers and the processing is done at the servers before the image is streamed to the screen. So you can play crysis on ultra settings as long as you have a blazing fast internet.

Of course there will be alot of complications, heck i don't think i can name them all, things like price will be a main factor. Will we have to buy the individual titles itself? (i mean since all most of us get ours from our good friend jack) Would we pay for this service even if we have super fast internet? I can imagine this service would be quite costly, unless the games are bombarded by advertisements.

On the upside, this means those using laptops/computers would not have to install anything thus clogging up our, oh-so-precious-and-ever-running-out hdd space. This could also mean we can use google's chrome OS to play the latest titles. (8 seconds to start gaming! )

Imho, if the pricing and infrastruture is there, I would definately go for this service. What about you guys?

This post has been edited by DoubleU: Dec 22 2009, 10:14 AM

lol miahahhaha i'm afraid to tell you the truth. The infrastruture in uk is almost like malaysia. I'm using virgin internet, the best internet provider in the UK, and my line frequently breaks....

but think about it, demos will be instantanous, no need download anything.

hm... i did a search of onlive on the forum, didn't come across the older tread.

@trogdor lets assume that the internet is not tmnet and its extremely fast, will you go for onlive then?