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You’re promising a whole new world. OnLive is the console killer. It will change the industry and make having to upgrade obsolete. I call bulls**t.
What the hell do you think you are telling me? I have to buy a new console?
It’s not a console? Heh, don’t kid yourself. It is a new console. You want to play a game you have to buy this machine from them. You have to use their machine. It’s a console. So it’s not your traditional disc based system. Doesn’t matter. It’s a company machine that will only play its own formatted games.
So I can’t play my games if I don’t have internet? Oh and it has to be a broadband connection or it’s a no go.
This is your console killer, something that only works half the time? This is a technology device meant to show off supposed advances in chips and wires and ideas and stuff.
There is a reason this was debuted at GDC and not E3 or CES. Oh look at me, I have cloud processing. Oh look at me, I can play Crysis on a crappy PC. Oh look at me, my technology is impressive, but honestly do I really have to care? We shouldn’t because it’s the same as a 360 or Playstation. Just another machine to play games in an already crowded market.
Bulls**t.
So a subscription-based service that can run on any computer with a free 1MB applet is the same as a $400 PS3? You only need the ‘console’ if you want to play it on your TV, and even then it’s supposedly a lot cheaper than any of the current consoles (though admittedly, no price point has been given).
Yes, you have to buy a new console, but one that will update itself for years to come, because the horsepower is on their end, not yours. You can’t say that for any existing console, or even a PC.
As for the ‘only working half the time’ bit, there are many services that require a broadband connection for their use. Any given MMO, for example. Or GameTap. Can you honestly say that you spend much of your time without easy access to broadband? I haven’t been in that boat in probably eight years.
Now, I’m not saying that OnLive is the second coming. I’m still skeptical, and as a life-long gamer, something about it just rubs me the wrong way. Obviously they’re using marketing-speak to pimp their service – I wouldn’t expect any less from them. But to just sit back and go ‘Ah, bullshit’ is short-sighted and immature.