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Miscellaneous => General Discussion => Topic started by: moonras on March 27, 2009, 10:04:41 AM

Title: On Live
Post by: moonras on March 27, 2009, 10:04:41 AM
Thought this new service looked interesting. Be awesome for people who can't afford great gaming pcs, assuming it doesn't have an overly priced subscription of sorts.

http://pc.ign.com/dor/articles/965599/gdc-09-onlive-video-demos/videos/onlive_gdc09_crysis_on_old_pc.html
Title: Re: On Live
Post by: Tony on March 27, 2009, 10:42:14 AM
That looks very interesting, but I can foresee the "lag" issues on a whole new level... My comcast connection is 3mb if no one else in the hood is using the node. Sure I have 6mb burst dl, but thats not by any means a constant. I would think that if you had a fiber connection, there would be no problem with this sort of thing, but not anything like that in my neck of the woods.
Title: Re: On Live
Post by: Kothnok on March 27, 2009, 11:24:12 AM
It's all a bit too vague to get too excited over it yet:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/03/is-your-pc-obsolete-onlive-brings-the-cloud-to-pc-gaming.ars

This service will become dead in the water if all the fast internet connections start capping their bandwidth.  Streams of games will cost you a pretty penny to play them all month.