Onlive is the next level form of videogames entertainment that plans on finally getting rid of the hard copy game, and going all cloud based. The startup’s made much stride too, as it’s announced breaking news that it’ll partner with VIZIO, with the electronics company offering televisions, Blu-ray players, tablet computers and mobile phones that can connect to OnLive right out of the box.
To commemorate the partnership, OnLive is offering a CES 2011-motivated discount on its MicroConsole hardware through the duration of the show which runs until January 9th, 2011. So if you’re planning on purchasing the cloud-only service, now’s your chance.
With your order, you’ll get a voucher good for the game of your choice — for $66, plus shipping, directly from OnLive.
Take a dive.
Thanks, Joystiq.
This looked tempting to begin with, but then I looked at the list of games it has, and I have pretty much played all of them.
LOL yes. Same here. I really don’t know how it’ll take off being that there are no exclusives there…. But I have this funny feeling it will. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out. last I heard Sony was planning it’s own cloud-based thing. We’ll see.
I think it is a cool idea, but it just does not have the content.
True. They need exclusive, mind-blowing, Uncharted-like, Call of Duty-like content.
Maybe I’m pushing it but you know what I mean.
If they could some how start putting pc only games on here, then I would get it in a heart beat. It would save me a lot of money because I would no longer need to build a pc.
True. And I think as they progress things will get even better.
i was actually really interested in this, till i saw it in action.
the games are not in full HD and theres so much lag it like running crysis on a freaking P4!
this is suppose to give you PC gaming quality, but it cant even give you normal PC quality!
im surprised its lasted this long considering the poor quality, not to mention the ridiculous requirements to even get it working!
not everyone lives in Japan with ADSL2+ download speeds you know?
give it another year or so and it will be dead in the water, unless they drastically reduce the requirements and drastically improve the quality.
Hope it works out.
so do i, the idea of playing games on a 500 dollar PC in the quality you would need a 4K PC is really cool!
but theres far too much lag, the quality is no where near as good.
if they did give us the visuals we expect than the lag would be even worse!
simple fact is internet standards just are not high enough for what there trying to do.
will take decades to get internet fast enough to be able to really deliver on what there promising.
than once they get that up to expectations, than they have the problems of games library.
activision, EA, THQ, sony, M$, nintendo are just a few companies who said wont be allowing there games onto onlive.
EAs a weird one, they said they wont allow there games on there but than crysis is on there.
anyway, there always going to have the library problem.
another problem they face is what if sony or M$ or ninty decide to do the same?
there hanging on a thin thread, standing on egg shells.
Yes, some really good points you make there. Really great points indeed.