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OnLive Makes PC Upgrades Extinct, Lets You Play Crysis On Your TV
helava says,
Whoa. If this ever actually makes it to market, it really might actually make consoles and PC gaming extinct. I don't know that it'd properly scale in this day & age, but when it does, buh-bye local hardware. Nice to see someone taking a stab at this model.
Article excerpt from kotaku.com —
"You may never buy a new video card ever again. Actually, the only PC gaming hardware you might ever need will cost you less than a Wii, should OnLive's potential live up to its promise.
OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. The brainchild of Rearden Studios founder Steve Perlman,...
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Anonymous
Posted 3 years ago
Wow this would be amazinig.. I ant see the day when i wont own a console but if this works and gets games besides PC game I'm in there. And of course the subscription can't be a killer on the pockets.
Posted 3 years ago
all this is a over-glorified Wyse Thin Client hell you can do it with windows xp. the only thing is your going to need a lot of bandwidth. i would not be supreisd if wyse sues them.
Posted 3 years ago
This would be one of the greatest achievements in the gameing community ever if it works as they say "in the wild "!!! I just don’t see how that will be possible with only 5 server bases to start with it will have to grow exponentially with in the first 6 months, now I’m not saying I won’t try it hell I will dive in head first I want to see how WoW and Diablo work on this. but a less them 1MS ping rate just doesn’t seem possible it takes on average 3MS just to do a server ping test...
Posted 3 years ago
Well I sure wouldn't want to go through the hell of being in their first client base. Unless of course I get free for life just for beta'ing it. Might be successful sometime, but I doubt soon.
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