Is OnLive going to rule over all game concles?

calvin_0nah, online distribution will only success when high speed internet connection is a necessity, like gas, electricity or water.

It's coming, trust me. I still think that this idea would be best suited to something like the Iphone or... more accurately, a "console" like it built for onlive with your friends anywhere.

The way I see this working:
Everyone has a 50mbit/s network connection.
When you download the game, it comes out of the OnLive thing as a disk.
Burninate?
????
Profit!?

Replying to #22

You never download. Ever. It's all their servers, you're sending keypresses and receiving a movie of your gameplay, more or less.

guineapig1016i Bevile it has its ups and downs because when your net is down ....then what ? net+down=no gameing in addition to it will put a lot of game store out of bessens becuse of the instant play and buy. + monthy or anuly fee...who knows?but the ups are no driveing to go to game store + you can work with the game delopers online and chat whit them too. + small concel easy to keep track of + can do better that a 360! and ps3!, wii!!!now who do you know that will pay for it?

K, I had to read lower posts to actually find out what this was o.0Sounds like phail netflix

Deathbreak911 · #21It's coming, trust me.

not for this generation.......thats for sure.

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I don' tknow where you live, but here in America all the little kiddies are addicted to their cell phones and "INFO NAO!" Internet will soon be as "necessary" as gas.

Replying to #26

to become a necessity, people need to have internet in thier lives and right now people dont need internet as we need electricity, plus how many smart\computerise house is build out there? not much i'll say. its going to take quite a while for every house to have a reason to have a fix connection to the internet. when every house is a smart\computerise house, then we might get internet as a necessity.and kid dont need their own phone, parent who think otherwise is either an idiot or have too much money.

i wont be getting this because im 16 on sunday (yey!!!)and i think ill wont be getting anymore consoles because i dont want to play on video games all my life, i would only buy one for a child i may have in the future. Plus consoles have ruined my education because they are too addicting.

Many peolpe have bad internet connection(Such as myself).
OnLive will require HIGH SPEED wideband.
Neither me nor thousands of people will buy this system with nowaday´s conditions. But it still is a incredible idea. Put it to work will be more incredible.

Replying to #29

From what ive read OnLive doesnt need to be that fast, 2mbps down, 5-6mbps down for 720p HD (if I remember correctly).Despite all of the things that could go down and all of the doubt, and the fact that the communications network probably cant handle this yet, id still get one. The concept itself and the obvious progress towards it is a revolution. If this takes off then current gen systems are fucked, it may be a few years away yet but the benefits are just too great to shoot down.

When I said bad internet connection, I was talking about 600kbps, the speed of many internet connections in Latin America, where I live.
I agree with you, it has benefits that any consoles in this generation didn´t show to this point(Maybe Wii MotionPlus could escape from this one).

TwilitPokemonWhen I said bad internet connection, I was talking about 600kbps, the speed of many internet connections in Latin America, where I live.
I agree with you, it has benefits that any consoles in this generation didn´t show to this point(Maybe Wii M+ could escape from this one).

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TwilitPokemon · #31When I said bad internet connection, I was talking about 600kbps, the speed of many internet connections in Latin America, where I live.
I agree with you, it has benefits that any consoles in this generation didn´t show to this point(Maybe Wii MotionPlus could escape from this one).

Really? I was thinking more about my 29Kbps connection!
Anyway I think we all agree that one of it biggest downfalls is not having an installation/disk for the games, It might work one day, but not yet.

I think online gaming might "grow stronger" or become easily available for more people in the future, but as for replacing videogame "giants" such as Sony and Nintendo, I personally think that they would have to create games that would attract and convince people that they have the potential to replace the already existant games that other companies have. We'll see :-\

calvin_0 · #25not for this generation.......thats for sure.

What are you talking about? Do you realize how fast computer technology advances? In 10 years our computers will be 1000x times faster.

it's not the computing power thats relevant here, it's the availability of internet connections that are fast enough to support this and have bandwidth allowances high enough. Additionally, its about the ability of the telecommunications infrastructure to support this kind of traffic on a large scale.

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We were all on 56k not long ago.. now we have speeds available to the general public as fast as 50mbps. We are getting there VERY fast.

depends where you live. parts of the UK are still on 56kbps, and the majority are on less than 2mbit with ridiculously low transfer allowances. Additionally our monopoly telco recently lost a single backbone and there were major repercussions, which shows we don't yet have the infrastructure to cope

calvin_0 · #27and kid dont need their own phone, parent who think otherwise is either an idiot or have too much money.

hmm, actually thats fairly wrong
I'm still technically classed as a "kid" yet I actually DO need my own phone, kinda hard to contact my parents without it and it has quite literally been a lifesaver (if you class saving lives as a lifesaver of course), before ANYONE brings up payphones let me just say that you don't think "hmm I need to call someone" and have a phone box shoot out of the floor in front of you

Replying to #39

i been using pay phone during my whole childhood. My mom force me to use a cell phone so she can track me during colleges time. So kids dont need thier own phone.