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[Lord Krump]

http://kotaku.com/5181625/see-onlive-in-action

Thoughts on this exciting, potentially awesome new service?

[Super ShadowArticuno]

I'm hoping that you can hold on to games after OnLive cancels them from their selection service, but other than that, it seems cool.

A little too good to be true, but cool.

[Francis]

Awesome. I have seen this kind of technology used for smaller scale things, like virtual web browsers. But to host thousands of games would take a huge amount of server resources. I will be impressed if they can pull it off.

More info:
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/23/steve-perlmans-onlive-could-turn-the-video-game-world-upside-down/

[Paper_Waluigi]

If this will let me play Starcraft 2 when it comes out, I will shit a brick. ФֻФ

[Geno]

I'm totally hitting this shit up when it's all said and done.

[Tyler]

Soooo... would I be able to play Team Fortress 2 on my laptop, which normally runs it terribly?

[Geno]

[Rusty Shackleford]

[Supa Koopa]

this actually sounds like the perfect counterpart to the generation's nintendo system to me

knowing nintendo, they'll always keep certain aspects of their system restricted to their system itself, like, say, the wii's channel system and ds--wii connectivity etc. and likely keep first/2nd-party games held up tight. this is exactly the reason I own the generation's nintendo system every generation as well as one other (ps1, ps2, 360, etc) but never all 3, or however many. there's a lot, LOT of good reason to own a 'normal' system while nintendo messes around with all their little 'innovations' that end up making their systems incompatible or just not up to par with a lot of the great features of the other consoles, but yet that same innovation that you'll see NOTHING like on the other consoles and *ESPECIALLY* the first-party MUST-HAVES that FLOOD nintendo systems and you'll NEVER see anywhere else absolutely force you to get the nintendo console of the generation.

now, that being said, having my hungry nerdy fingers all over a nintendo console for all it's good for but *also* being able to buy this little gadget that pretty much says 'hey i'm all the other consoles at once so you'll never miss a hit game' is like '*crag* YES'

let us pray to the Big Rock Who Watches that this works

[Mana7]

HOLY SHIT YES, I just hope they partner up with Steam and let me play my valve games on there

[Plastic Mario]

Our favourite bottle of soda wanted me to say this so yeah

[Screamy]

I'm sort of skeptical about this. What about lag? Also the quality of the video may not be as good as playing on a console since it is incoming from the internet. We'll see how well it works when it comes out. Don't get me wrong, I hope this works out really well, but we'll see.

[Alexio]

Looks too good to be true. PC gamers probably won't give up upgrading and stuff for OnLive since the lack of mod support. I like having physical copies of games too.

[Zelnor]

Wouldn't there be massive lag, hax and all such internet disease ? It would be awesome and end the retarded console wars, but it looks like it's streaming, not DLing your games like Steam does.

Also, if they monopolize the market, expect fees like whoa.

Wait, I just actually understood the good side, with the whole hardware... the potential is epic... one would not be needing top hardware, of course, but remote play might have some issues...

Also, if their servers go kablooie just once, there will be global geek raeg.

HARD COPIES FTW.

Oh, and remember when you got your stem account hax'd ? This would bel ike that, only a million times worse. Even if they bind it to the console, I bet some fickdace would find new ways to piss people off.

I'll remain undecided, 'k ? :/

[Super BLU Spy]

My friends just encouraged me to sign up for beta. is 33888 a valid zip code? Screw it, just screw it. I signed up.