Hands up all those who think it won't work as intended in one way or another.

I want this to work. That controller is awful. Please please please let this work. GOD that controller looks like ass.

I applaud any man/company who has the balls to challenge Microsoft,Nintendo, or Sony. Even if the challenge is shortlived.

<cough> VMware <cough>

What’s up with the spotty info on this product? A few years ago we hear about the Phantom, then new consoles drop and the name seems to change to OnLive? We hear that major publishers are interested and signing on early leading up to E3 ’09. Then, “poof”! “Online” is backing out of E3 ’09 due to the swine flu. What the hell is going on?! They should fire their PR team or give bloggers an all access pass to whatever they’ve got cooking. All I know about this system/service is that it uses cloud computing, which in theory could be interesting….but this cloak and dagger shit is annoying. If they are hiding their breakthroughs from MS then patent the shit be done with it already! Big companies like MS are gonna figure out what you are doing anyway so you are better served by beating them to the punch....so who do I call to be part of a beta?

I don't care about their compression algorithms theres no way american internet speeds can live up to their idea of streaming hd gaming. Or anything close to that.

That old lady in Germany or France with the 4gbps Speed Internet is going to have a ball with this.

You know, you guys are skeptical now, but look how much the internet has progressed in just the past decade. I think it's definitely possible. And who knows, their proprietary compression methods might be pretty revolutionary. I'm going to believe it when I see it, but I'm not going to disbelieve it until I see it either.

@Robotbebop

I'm pretty sure they're taking the precautions to make sure they're authentication system works correctly.

And to all early naysayers, don't hate just yet. Wait until it is released, then you can rip on it.

Although the controller does totally look like poop.

I hope it fails, that thing scared the fuck out of me.

I for one, do not want this to happen at all. Call it technophobia or whatever you want, but I want my physical copy. I can take it with me anywhere and run it on other consoles like mine and know it plays the same.

With OnLive, I could login on a friends "micro-console" but their connection might suck causing lag.

Or, what if I have no internet, I play games normally. But with OnLive, what do I have? Nothing.

Wasn't there some crap like "Phantom" or something. It went ghost anyway. (Pun intended)

I just don't like this idea at all, but if they have good compression tech, all the better for video streaming, or other forms of media delivered in a compressed format. Would greatly improve bandwidth and download usage, no?

Still, I'm also skeptical about it even working, their "demos" were served quite locally, therefore less lag. I'm sure someone on the outer edges of server support wouldn't have a chance. Especially not with all these ISPs cracking down on bandwidth usages, and throttling people. I have an ISP that doesn't do that and gives me unlimited bandwidth though. Except, I live in the UK and I don't get to try it out, at least not for a long time.

only liked the part where you can watch other games being played in a way its like seeing if the game is worth buying but everything else NOPE!!

Actually,

They currently are in a closed beta consisting of 100 players and will expand it to 1000 later according to this article at The Escapist.

I only have DSL, max 300kbs, though I get like 170kbs on good days and at my parents house my bro only has access to dial up.........yay boonies.

This might be cool but I don't think that it will be as huge as they hope it to be.

I think the controller looks pretty cool! Doubt I'd be able to get OnLive though. Interesting concept but my internet sucks.

look at that controller. the buttons are L-I-V-E. so clever!

This is nothing like the Phantom. The Phantom was just a console that downloaded all of its games off of the internet. That technology is extremely commonplace nowadays, with downloadable games on Xbox 360 and PS3 (and even Wii).

Between the times of 4pm and 12am, my internet has a speed of 16kbps for non-html traffic. Other times is 200kbps.

Unless they can get round _that_, I'm not interested.

This is the sort of thing that only works under "Ideal" read Laboritory conditions, ill stick with a console that doesn't need a (effing fast) net connection at all times thanks.

Nice idea, but until the whole planet has fibre optic cabling from root to door its not gonna really work out.

Because of the distance to our local exchange, I can't get better than around 430kbps download speed. That's enough to stream off BBC I player (just) & even that has to stop & buffer on occassions if it's feeling a bit squiffy. There's no way on hells earth I'd be able to run this.

Most ISP's in the UK have a download limit on them anyway, so that'd stuff you up straight away.

I'll stick with my PS3 or the PC thanks.