Onlive: Revolution or Total mistake?

[eternalness]

Heres my list of how onlive will fail:

1. Onlive by some miracle becomes popular.
2. Their games look really good at first because of that special technology thing they had for face design and other stuff, and it would run the games at decent fps.
3. People stop buying new comps and upgrades for their comps.
4. Computer and computer component companies lose money and start to go out of buisness since their only big buyer is onlive, which I doubt would buy enough stuff to support all these companies.
5. Advances in comercially availible computer technology slows down.
6. Eventually the game will stop advancing in technology due to the fact that the technology powering them isn’t advancing.
7. Onlive FAILS.
8. World ends.

[megiddo]

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[FlotsamX]

@megiddo

Its a great idea for internet cafes, would cut the cost of upgrading gaming rigs because customers have access to run all games all you have to do is buy the onlive client like a steam account.

That cafe would need a helluva connection to support 30 people streaming 2MB persecond HD video.

[sersoft]

internet cafe’s for gamers are a terrible idea anyway.

[Mangled]

It will fail.

[iKy]

it is expected that the majority of people who will be talking about this are cocky idiots who think if you instantly oppose something new you are rated as an intelectual / critic , but with no material argument , the only issue i see with onlive is distribution , remember those who talk about 2mb/s and stuff that it uses an close-to-perfect archivation process who is revolutionary , that IS the big thing about onlive ,everything else is old , we all know it has been tried before n shizz , but then they didn’t upgrade the netcode , now a netcode seems to work , also , you should bring arguments to why it will fail [ like some idiots don’t ]