Comments on: OnLive – A New Gaming Paradigm http://ashwinbihari.com/2009/05/20/onlive-a-new-gaming-paradigm Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:08:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ashwin http://ashwinbihari.com/2009/05/20/onlive-a-new-gaming-paradigm/comment-page-1#comment-1795 Ashwin Wed, 20 May 2009 23:20:28 +0000 http://ashwinbihari.com/?p=256#comment-1795 @Dave: I agree that the staged demo from 50 miles away (as stated in the video) doesn't constitute a real world test. And I'm sure the system was overloaded by a large number of gamers. Since the system is expected to be available in Winter 2009, I imagine that that OnLive is going to get some reviewers in front of this thing to give us some perspective. But the Internet latencies from around the US (is this worldwide accessible??) being what it is, I think the TRUE test will occur when the system does go live and the public starts to get into the act. Either way, I'm going to be optimistic about this and hope for the best. One thing I didn't mention in the article is that I imagine this medium greatly lends itself to the prevention of piracy and so game publishers might spend more time/money getting their games onto this platform as opposed to out there fighting piracy. I imagine this doesn't signal the end of the traditional medium of acquiring games as we know it today, but it sure will augment it. @Onlivefans: Is the beta test going to be widespread or within some closed community? The more variety of people you have testing this with all sorts of Internet connections from all parts of the US, the better the general public will be able to gauge how real the technology truly is. @Dave: I agree that the staged demo from 50 miles away (as stated in the video) doesn’t constitute a real world test. And I’m sure the system was overloaded by a large number of gamers.

Since the system is expected to be available in Winter 2009, I imagine that that OnLive is going to get some reviewers in front of this thing to give us some perspective. But the Internet latencies from around the US (is this worldwide accessible??) being what it is, I think the TRUE test will occur when the system does go live and the public starts to get into the act.

Either way, I’m going to be optimistic about this and hope for the best.

One thing I didn’t mention in the article is that I imagine this medium greatly lends itself to the prevention of piracy and so game publishers might spend more time/money getting their games onto this platform as opposed to out there fighting piracy. I imagine this doesn’t signal the end of the traditional medium of acquiring games as we know it today, but it sure will augment it.

@Onlivefans: Is the beta test going to be widespread or within some closed community? The more variety of people you have testing this with all sorts of Internet connections from all parts of the US, the better the general public will be able to gauge how real the technology truly is.

]]> By: Onlive Forum http://ashwinbihari.com/2009/05/20/onlive-a-new-gaming-paradigm/comment-page-1#comment-1794 Onlive Forum Wed, 20 May 2009 20:28:22 +0000 http://ashwinbihari.com/?p=256#comment-1794 Well Dave, beta testing begins this summer so we should all get to see how real Onlive is. I am an optimist here, and I think they will surprise everyone with how well the gaming system performs. Well Dave, beta testing begins this summer so we should all get to see how real Onlive is. I am an optimist here, and I think they will surprise everyone with how well the gaming system performs.

]]> By: Dave http://ashwinbihari.com/2009/05/20/onlive-a-new-gaming-paradigm/comment-page-1#comment-1793 Dave Wed, 20 May 2009 16:44:17 +0000 http://ashwinbihari.com/?p=256#comment-1793 I remain entirely unconvinced by their controlled-setting demo, personally. Sure, screen-scraping is a great way to let you game on real hardware for cheap, but given the wide variety of "high speed" connections folks have, I'm waiting to see at least some reviewers being able to run it from their personal/work PCs over real-world connections. I remain entirely unconvinced by their controlled-setting demo, personally. Sure, screen-scraping is a great way to let you game on real hardware for cheap, but given the wide variety of “high speed” connections folks have, I’m waiting to see at least some reviewers being able to run it from their personal/work PCs over real-world connections.

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