Is OnLive going to rule over all game concles?

It's coming, trust me.

I still think that this idea would be best suited to something like the Iphone or... more accurately, a "console" like it built for onlive with your friends anywhere.

 

The way I see this working:
Everyone has a 50mbit/s network connection.
When you download the game, it comes out of the OnLive thing as a disk.
Burninate?
????
Profit!?

 

You never download. Ever. It's all their servers, you're sending keypresses and receiving a movie of your gameplay, more or less.

 

K, I had to read lower posts to actually find out what this was o.0

Sounds like phail netflix

 

not for this generation.......thats for sure.

 

I don' tknow where you live, but here in America all the little kiddies are addicted to their cell phones and "INFO NAO!" Internet will soon be as "necessary" as gas.

 

to become a necessity, people need to have internet in thier lives and right now people dont need internet as we need electricity, plus how many smart\computerise house is build out there? not much i'll say. its going to take quite a while for every house to have a reason to have a fix connection to the internet. when every house is a smart\computerise house, then we might get internet as a necessity.

and kid dont need their own phone, parent who think otherwise is either an idiot or have too much money.

 

i wont be getting this because im 16 on sunday (yey!!!)

and i think ill wont be getting anymore consoles because i dont want to play on video games all my life, i would only buy one for a child i may have in the future. Plus consoles have ruined my education because they are too addicting.

 

Many peolpe have bad internet connection(Such as myself).
OnLive will require HIGH SPEED wideband.
Neither me nor thousands of people will buy this system with nowaday´s conditions. But it still is a incredible idea. Put it to work will be more incredible.

 

From what ive read OnLive doesnt need to be that fast, 2mbps down, 5-6mbps down for 720p HD (if I remember correctly).

Despite all of the things that could go down and all of the doubt, and the fact that the communications network probably cant handle this yet, id still get one. The concept itself and the obvious progress towards it is a revolution. If this takes off then current gen systems are fucked, it may be a few years away yet but the benefits are just too great to shoot down.

 

When I said bad internet connection, I was talking about 600kbps, the speed of many internet connections in Latin America, where I live.
I agree with you, it has benefits that any consoles in this generation didn´t show to this point(Maybe Wii MotionPlus could escape from this one).

 

Madworld

 

Really? I was thinking more about my 29Kbps connection!
Anyway I think we all agree that one of it biggest downfalls is not having an installation/disk for the games, It might work one day, but not yet.

 

I think online gaming might "grow stronger" or become easily available for more people in the future, but as for replacing videogame "giants" such as Sony and Nintendo, I personally think that they would have to create games that would attract and convince people that they have the potential to replace the already existant games that other companies have. We'll see :-\

 

What are you talking about? Do you realize how fast computer technology advances? In 10 years our computers will be 1000x times faster.

 

We were all on 56k not long ago.. now we have speeds available to the general public as fast as 50mbps. We are getting there VERY fast.

 

hmm, actually thats fairly wrong
I'm still technically classed as a "kid" yet I actually DO need my own phone, kinda hard to contact my parents without it and it has quite literally been a lifesaver (if you class saving lives as a lifesaver of course), before ANYONE brings up payphones let me just say that you don't think "hmm I need to call someone" and have a phone box shoot out of the floor in front of you

 

i been using pay phone during my whole childhood. My mom force me to use a cell phone so she can track me during colleges time. So kids dont need thier own phone.