OnLive now working over Wi-Fi, announces 'Indie Fest'

@richbumx

Yeah right, like Sony or Microsoft would ever...

you know, nevermind.

@mrmobius

Won't we all have computers built in to our hands in 5 years?

I seriously don't see the point of this service. The niches it could fill don't exist.

@PR0F3TA

reply fail

@Chazzr
How far are you from a datacenter? We all have very fast connections to our ISP. And what is "shitty"? If you're playing on a desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard, yes of course playing locally from Steam will be way better both in terms of graphics and control lag. Use a controller on a TV, or play on a laptop and see how it is. OnLive is not meant at this time to replace Desktop PC gaming.

It's meant to provide an alternative where you can buy/rent/demo a game and play the same game across all kinds of playforms. You can play it on a netbook, on your TV, on a mac, with all your saved games intact etc. I admit the case for paying full retail for an OnLive game is not very enticing at the moment and it will be a long while before this replaces your desktop gaming PC. But for renting games/demoing instantly or even buying a game at 50% off, as is often the case? Starts to get pretty appealing to me.

@Chazzr
Haha, no I don't work for them. I am however a fan of the tech and want it to succeed. I think it's an amazing achievement that nobody said would work at all, and yet here it is. I also think retail specialty stores like Gamestop need to go the way of the Dodo, and I think this is one piece in that puzzle. I think the fact that I can play high end games on my 13 inch macbook or through my HTPC on my TV is pretty rad. Is it a 1:1 experience to playing games locally on my Desktop? No, and, as a hardcore gamer I'd never play a game I was super anticipating on OnLive. I own Prince of Persia and Just Cause 2 on there, and I think they're both really well suited to the platform as games I can play for a bit on a bunch of different platforms.

But as a way to rent a game and beat it in a couple days or instantly demo games to see what I think? Sure, and I hope it does succeed because the tech has a bunch of applications, works and is bound to only get better from here, which is why it bugs when people dismiss it out of hand or say they want it to go out of business.