OnLive Makes Crysis on a Netbook Possible

[telkin]

I don't know about you but if I'm playing a game for a couple of hours and the network connection drops before I can make it to a save point because of some storm 2 states away. I'm gonna be pissed. At least having the console local prevents that.
But I do understand for developers it would be huge, make games for one platform no worries about distribution costs, hackers. It may help spur better/faster broadband.

 

[cracklint]

I see to many inherent problems for this to be an alternative to consoles or gaming pc's. First of all the addive nature of gamers doesn't give way to shotty service. Regardless if it is a server issue or poor isp performance, their are too many uncontrolable variables to make this a viable gaming platform.

Also, I think that if the way of gaming were to go to server based rendering it would enevitably hurt gaming. Basically gaming would become a service, such as cable tv or satellite television. Game developers would have to develop games in a vacuum. They would be restricted to hardware located on the server. How often does cable and sattelite companies upgrade their equipment; what is the incentive? They already have the customers, why spend more cash to offer more value to customers that they already are receiving subscription fees from. They might upgrade their servers every 10 years, which is over 2 generations in the video game industry. Whether or not we like pricey consolse and pc's, they do make technology progress faster and enable developers to expand and create new realism to further the escape into a fantasy world for the gamer.

 

[fans 6]

this sucks.......... its gonna ruin the fun of upgrading you computer with the best when you can just get a fin onlive. I was just gonna get an i7, but seeing it would only have like 2yrs of superiority, i don't know, it also ruins the console gaming culture as no ps3, wii, 360. And it would indirectly hurt companies like intel and amd, because when people see that you can do video just as fast as using someones server, there will be no need to make core i7's or new cpu's cpu architecture would be blown back to the stone age having an emphasis on power consumption.............