http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UHxiYMFhM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLykFF1qL_A Source: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694247/OnLive-Gaming-Service-Announced-A-New-Dawn-of-Gaming.html
Its not gona work, its gona lag and be slow when to much people connect. prolly gona end up costing to much in relation to the quality of service too.
hmmm... 480p games with a 1.5 mbps connection and 720p on a 5 mbps connection... Your gaming would be determined by your latency and upload/dl speeds. Until everyone is running fiber i doubt this will really take off, but its a great premise. Pricing would be a major issue in my mind... if they do this as a monthly charge determined by the amount of gaming you do then i'd be like fuck off. But if its just a 50 dollar charge per game with unlimited playtime at max graphics with 768 resolution then i might get on board. I have a 11 mbps connection and a pretty shitty video card so this would actually make some sense for me. Also its not limited by OS, so i could technically play Crysis on my Macbook. For anyone with a hardcore gaming setup and who plays their games a 1080p+ resolution this definitely won't have any appeal, but for the average gamer, it might work.
They'll fail big time, not everyones got like super fast connection. Even ggpo tried to hide the lag, it works most the time, but not for everyone...
This is simply a bad idea and a complete waste of money. The demo they have running there might run well, but that's probably using a dedicated line to the server, the same scenario in the real world with millions of users hammering the crap out of the servers is not going to work...
