Wow this is pretty neato, if they can sort out the latency issues with FPS and RTS games looks like it might spell the end of consoles (somewhere in the future anyway)

For the price of a low-end PC plus a monthly fee you'll soon be able to play ultra-high-end games like Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Crysis. According to VentureBeat, the service, dubbed OnLive, will launch in June after eight years of research and development, offer up to 720p-caliber high-def gameplay, and cost $14.95 a month.

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I dunno i'm kinda sketchy on this thing. I guess we will hear how it turns out when the praise/complaints start coming in. If it did work exactly how they said it does, it could very well be quite an epic moment in PC gaming.

f*** yeah I'd be into that so long as the lag isn't too bad.

Saves outlaying phat lewts on the latest and greatest gaming rigs!!

EDIT: forget my comment.

OnLive claims it's beat the latency issue, though recent beta reviews claim otherwise. It sounds like less motion-dependent games (think casual stuff, puzzle games, platformers, etc.) fare better, while first-person shooters and real-time strategy games and anything with lots of camera-related spatial motion can lag pretty badly.

mkaaay

I dunno i'm kinda sketchy on this thing. I guess we will hear how it turns out when the praise/complaints start coming in. If it did work exactly how they said it does, it could very well be quite an epic moment in PC gaming.

PC gaming, once it gained momentum, has always been about pushing the technological edge. Does this new gaming system, coupled with the console craze, mean that we've reached the tech limitation point? I doubt it but it does mean that people will be locked into a dated system at release.

so its pretty much remote desktop gaming?

This could really impact hardware sales if it takes off

The only way I can see this working is if they partner with ISP's or some sort of peering like pipenetworks in australia.

Or the cloud was very local.

so its pretty much remote desktop gaming?

What he said.

How does this technology actually work? To stream video that quickly would use heaps of bandwidth for the client wouldn't it? How would they virtualise directx/opengl to a remote desktop type client at full refresh? Does that mean they would have one machine per user in the cloud?

For the price of a low-end PC plus a monthly fee

Fail. Unless that "monthly fee" is the fee I pay to my ISP they can shove it.

streaming the video is the easy part.. its how they get your button press to the server and back in real time