Comments on: Future of Video Games? (OnLive)

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:53:52 +0000

Hmm, dunno. It could work. I mean… there’s plenty of people who can figure out reasons why something doesn’t gonna work… and plenty of reasons why there won’t be more than 5 PCs in the world or why we will never travel to moon or why the CD rom will be the end of piratism..

But who knows.. maybe this could work… Not sure when, but maybe after 10 or 20 years? We’ll see.

By: foo

foo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:58:53 +0000

Here is an article from Dale Beermann on gamasutra http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DaleBeermann/20090327/999/Games_as_a_Service_Why_Im_Skeptical_of_OnLive.php

By: Sargon

Sargon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:25:06 +0000

Although, this should kill piracy, don’t you think?
At least for games that will be available only on streaming.

By: hObbE - Spell of Play

hObbE - Spell of Play — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:06:41 +0000

I also don’t think you should underestimate the desire of people wanting to actually own stuff “physically”. It’s taken a long time for “pure” digital products to be widely accepted and adopted and I think people still want stuff on their drives to enjoy at their convenience and not be bound to a service provider.

By: Lamonte | Free FPS Games

Lamonte | Free FPS Games — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:45:44 +0000

Hmm, and in years apparently US internet companies will start putting bandwidth limits like they have down in Australia I heard.

This is like a video based “steam” type company. Instead of downloading the software you play it on the go. Don’t see this company competing with steam.

By: DtD Software

DtD Software — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:52:58 +0000

I don’t think (or hope) it will succeed. People’s internet speeds just aren’t fast enoguh to handle good quality video at 1152*864 or 1280*800 or 1280*768 (The three resolutions I play games on, many people go higher) at 60 FPS in full color, then you throw in sound which is also very fat to stream absolutly live.

~DtD

By: Nikita Logachev

Nikita Logachev — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:30:29 +0000

The funny thing is, David Perry talked about cloud-gaming being the future for the industry about a year or two ago. And it seems he wasn’t just being theoretical. It appears that OnLive’s announcement “forced his hand.”

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/gdc-exclusive-david-perrys-entry-into-serverbased-gaming/?biz=

He is also working on a similar venture. It’s not bull. ;)

By: Toni Mäkinen

Toni Mäkinen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:56:06 +0000

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20090327.jpg

By: foo

foo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:47:07 +0000

The game is supposedly streamed to the user as images, but how they are going to do this or why they are just doing this for games is anyones guess. General consensus is that it is a load of bull. Sixty frames a second a good quality video! Do you not think the whole video media industry would want this? Some of the problems are:
a lot of broadband users have download limits.
you do need a extra box to play.
how are they going to get rid of lag when the games is not even on the same machine as the user.
What sort of super computers are going to be needed to run this video encoding with thousands upon thousands of users.

By: Scurvy Lobster

Scurvy Lobster — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:16:43 +0000

I find this article on the subject interesting: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gdc-why-onlive-cant-possibly-work-article