The death of games consoles

saiconoclast · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 06:42 PM

A brand new online service promises to serve games to your living rooms, LIVE, and without the need for an expensive console or a high-powered personal computer. It’s the future of gaming and – potentially – the death of traditional gaming devices as we know and love them.

OnLive – say it softly and not within earshot of Sony, Nintendo and co – circumvents the need to trudge to the shops, hand over your hard-earned cash and trudge all the way home again with the latest hot game. Instead, this ‘cloud’ service will deliver top games direct to your PC or TV screen instantly, using a small receiver unit that hooks up to your existing broadband connection.

All the heavy work, so to speak, is performed by powerful remote servers using clever compression routines. Players simply provide the required inputs using a joypad, as normal. The results of their efforts are then streamed back with almost non-existent lag. OnLive will run on a network of server centres placed so that no user is more than 1000 miles from one. In broadband terms that’s just down the road, figuratively speaking.

OnLive is set to launch on 17 June in the USA, with a worldwide rollout expected to follow shortly thereafter. Users will pay a $14.95 (£9.99) subscription fee each month, plus the cost of either buying or renting each game. In this regard OnLive has several very significant advantages: there’s no need to invest any further in a game you’re not enjoying; you can sample all the latest releases with minimal costs; and you’ll be able to remove some of the clutter from under/behind the telly and clear a bit of shelf space into the bargain.

OnLive also enjoys the support of many high-profile games publishers – removing the need to manufacture and physically distribute games is an obvious and lucrative benefit to them. Big-name titles such as Borderlands, Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed are among the launch games announced so far. Perhaps understandably, the three main console manufacturers are somewhat cooler on the whole idea...

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You think people will bother?

X I'M H.I.V X · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 07:36 PM

sounds like a good idea..

Youth Authority · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 08:07 PM

ye game consoles have demos -_-

Soopa · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 08:32 PM

i still fuck with cartridges my nigga, hellyoutalmbat?

SBYM · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 08:46 PM

This is nothing new, but it is a cool idea if it works right. *plays psone*

BG SOUTH · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 08:59 PM

nah i paid all this money for this ps3

im not trying to try some new and inventive idea

fuck that

Youth Authority · #7 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 10:31 PM

bet it lags unless u have silk smooth 200mb broadband

Cloud 9 · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 10:37 PM

na chill

DJ Victory · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 10:59 PM

it's called gamefly and demo's from a console...

Thizz · #10 (**permalink**) Mar 11th 2010, 11:08 PM

fuuuuuck saw this months ago...apparently somehow it runs the actual game in the companies separate servers...so basically you just get the feed and the response to what you do in the game...so you can play on a piece of shit computer...but im SURE this would work all the way up to the point where theres a huge amount of people doing it....bound to lag.

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