OnLive Game Console Announced

[Tharic-Nar]

Cloud based gaming, not up there with the faries but a large collection of servers offering up interactive games over the internet with minimal local processing. OnLive has been stirring up quite a bit of interest over the last couple years with an interesting take on playing games. Instead of buying $1000 of computer parts every 2 years to play the latest PC games, how about using a cheap $400 PC you built 3 years ago to play the latest PC games in High Definition... over the internet? Better yet, how about playing them on a console, a netbook, or even a mobile phone? This is what OnLive wants to achieve and has made great strides to do it.

You can read the rest of our post and discuss here.

 

[Doomsday]

nothing can replace a home built PC, but this can come in handy for ppl like me who dont want to buy consoles but would like to try out a few games of the PS3 or X360!

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

ok, now THAT'S cool. If this takes off, guarantee I'll be getting it...only if you can use keyboard and mouse with it

 

[Tharic-Nar]

ok, now THAT'S cool. If this takes off, guarantee I'll be getting it...only if you can use keyboard and mouse with it

I forgot to mention that.... that's what the 2 USB slots are for on the front... Keyboard and mouse, so you're set .

 

[Optix]

Awesome! I'm glad they took that into account.

We have console gamers here at work and all of the PC gamers (myself included) make fun of them having to aim with a stick. It's so bad in fact that we are thinking of conducting a test - get one of the biggest loud mouth console guys who is God's gift to Black Ops to connect his controller to a PC, log into a PC server and see just how bad ass he is.

 

[Rob Williams]

This is never meant to replace a PC for PC gamers, but be a solution for console gamers who want PC games. I don't see it taking off to be honest. Everyone I know who's tested it out said it was never that fluid (slight lag), so that kind of kills of for me. It's a cool idea, but perhaps better for the future if bandwidth limits cease to exist and latencies improve for people all around.