On Live

[moonras]

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

[Tony]

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.

[Kothnok]

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.