Comments on: A challenger appears: OnLive

By: Nemphtis

Nemphtis — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:08:29 +0000

Most likely not, unless OnLive catches the world by storm or something. They are marketing OnLive as something that should be used alongside your usual gaming PC or your home consoles.

I think they understand that OnLive is a big change and so people won't instantly hop over to it, but I don't doubt for a second that they plan to slowly ease gamers into using it as the primary platform for downloading and playing games.

After all, would you pay £300 for a games console when you could pay £10 a month for a 'console' that never gets outdated as long as OnLive upgrades their servers with the latest GPUs and so on?

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:04:07 +0000

If it kicks off, works well, has all of the games you want to play, and your Internet connection allows it, sure.

Don't forget that if this service is not only transferring game data such as player locations (for playing multiplayer games) but textures and CGI as well, then bandwidth limits and fair usage policies could very quickly be upon you.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:58:02 +0000

So did i spend thousands of pounds on a PC that had the hardware to play the best games.. for nothing?

By: Mustafa Unal

Mustafa Unal — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:08:29 +0000

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:04:07 +0000

If it kicks off, works well, has all of the games you want to play, and your Internet connection allows it, sure.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:58:02 +0000

So did i spend thousands of pounds on a PC that had the hardware to play the best games.. for nothing?