OnLive is coming!

[Luk3us 63]

OnLive has announced that its cloud-based game streaming service will launch in the 48 contiguous US states on June 17, 2010. The service will initially be available to PC and Mac owners for a monthly service fee of $14.95. Each game purchase and rental will carry a charge on top of the base subscription.

 

Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive, confirmed that the final version of the OnLive "experience" will be demoed at E3 2010, which kicks off just two days before the service goes live. As for the whereabouts of its "micro-console," Perlman could only say that it will launch at a later date to be announced in the coming months. He offered a quick look ahead at some planned upgrades to the service, the biggest of which is 1080p support at 60 frames-per-second "as the bandwidth becomes available."

 

OnLive is going to waive the first three months of its service fee for the first 25,000 people who register for the service. Those who want to get a leg-up on being a part of that group can pre-register on the company's site.

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/onlive-l...onth-service-f/

 

 

 

I reckon it will be rather popular at first, but then eventually bomb. You're thoughts?

[Sonic 296]

Is this one that streams the games to you over your broadband connection?

 

Dumb idea for this likes of New Zealand and Aussie (assuming it becomes available here). Our brilliant capped internet would be sucked up in a matter of hours.

[Luk3us 63]

Yes its the one that streams the game to you.

 

 

Yeah there would have to be some fairly significant changes in NZ to make this viable.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

My connection just got capped so this would be a waste of ****ing time.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

We're capped over here too, but the caps are higher.

 

In any case though, pretty soon there will be a large problem with caps. Youtube is upgrading to a lot of HD videos, Steam installs, Netflix streaming, music streaming, now video game streaming, ChromeOS which stores everything online, DropBox backups; all of these things and many others are pure streaming, and people are going to want to use them and use them a lot which is going to go through their caps fast. ISPs are going to have to remove them or they will have a lot of angry customers and perhaps an FCC lawsuit on their hands (well, in the States anyways). Of course it could all just be a giant.. CONSPIRACY OMG!.. where the ISPs instate caps, then all the content providers release a lot of products that will eat the caps up, then the ISPs gouge their customers with "overage charges" and make even more money that they don't deserve.

[Guest Stevie_K]

From reading the article it sounds complicated, expensive and like something we have already seen (XboxLive?), and not to forget; a less good idea for those with bad connection.

[TheBlackOut 7]

I have 20Mbps down, 20Mbps up and no cap, hurrr

[Guest Stevie_K]

20Mps down is not rare these days, but 20Mps up is crazy!! Where I live, it's common that the "up" is less than 1/10th of the "down".

[Luk3us 63]

Universities, colleges and other such institutions, DO NOT COUNT!

[Sonic 296]

On my ADSL2+ plan I get around 22Mps down/1Mps up, best the line can do..... all on a 40GB datacap.