OnLive has been promising a lot since it made such a splash at E3. We've had some time with the guys behind it and are still unsure that it can deliver on all its amazing promises. Every game, any time, everywhere no matter what your internet connection is? It sounds a bit implausable. Add another grain of salt to the salt shaker as the guys behind OnLive are now claiming it will function over mobile phones as well. This means that games will not just be "streaming" to the home, but to mobile phones as well.
"Today, at a Wedbush financial conference in New York I showed OnLive running simultaneously on two iPhones, a TV, and a computer," said CEO Steve Perlman. He then added, "It's important to understand that a cell phone is a very different beast than TV, PC or Mac ... currently, games on OnLive are tuned for TVs and computers, so initially, it's the Community and Social elements of OnLive that we're most excited about on mobile devices."
I can understand having the social aspects over OnLive, but I don't even understand how full games would work over phones. Maybe they're just discussing cellphone games over the service, but if it's full game one has to question the functionality of it and if anyone wants to even play full retail games over their phone.
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7:00 PM on 11.15.2009
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Onlive will be a massive failure
Dragon Age is GOTY 2009
DRAGON AGE GOTY
Yes I am still going to be making DNF jokes. Get used to it.
and im actually excited for onlive. I was disappointed there was no beta during the summer (we where promised...) and im now doubting it will launch this year...
Also, surely they must have the system working well as it is now to have time to get it on cell phones as well.
Also, Dragon Age? Really?
No, seriously, is it good or what?
In all seriousness, It would be awesome is it worked. I never got into the beta, still waiting.
Not typing makes me type typos.
But if it does, the world will be changed forever.
I see that this experiment may very well be kept alive for years until broadband becomes really fast. After all I think that is all it needs: 0 lag.
You enjoy your direct fiber connection to your cell phone.
Even if OnLive does technically work, there are going to be so many people trying to use it at once that there will be a global power outage. Or something.
Back in my day games with tweaked Multiplayer and a 4 hour campaign was called an expansion pack.
Johnny reference!?
Oh my god. Now I remember why I love this place.
I rock. :D
onlive will fail.
1- make a company with limited liability.
2- advertise it to collect investors.
3- transfer the money to your personal acount bankrupting the business.
Virgin media are the only fibre optic cable supplier in the UK (read: Monopoly) and cap ther downloads to 2.5 gig within peak hours (10am - 2pm and 3pm - 9pm) and their upload cap limit is seriously low, like don't-you-dare-upload-a-youtube-video-in-peak-time low.
If OnLive even works, anyone in the UK with fibre optic broadband at 10mb/s or 20mb/s will be able to play for less than an hour before their internet drops off for 5 mins and comes back at 2.5mb/s for the next 5 hours.
I have an open dispute with them as I want to cap my payments down to 25% of the bill when they reach my cashflow-managment limit.
When it works the 10mb/s fibre optic broadband is awesome, allows me to download torrents at 1300kb/s while playing lagless MW2 and while the mrs streams TV shows, just so long as it's before 10am or after 9pm - brilliant when you're at work between 9 and 5 and need to sleep between 12 and 8. A whole fucking 3 hours of high speed broadband on an "Unlimited" package.
God forbid you want to download a demo after work, that instanlty labels you as a high bandwidth user, puts you on a P2P watch list and throttles your speed to 25% of what you pay for!
But sir, you could always upgrade to 50bm/s and get no limits - So you want more money to make my unlimited Broadband UNLIMITED?!!?!?!
Make sure you check out Virgin's "traffic-managment" information before signing up for their super awesome sounding fibre optic cable broadband.
Yeah whens this coming out again? And how soon afterwards will it fail?
I signed up for the BETA on day one when it was announced. It was supposed to happen over the summer. It's now almost Thanksgiving. I'm calling BS. Why aren't more of us saying "Hey what the heck?" Maybe Playstation HOME numbed us to push-backs.