OnLive MicroConsole $66 through Jan. 9, 5.1 audio coming 'early 2011'

@eat it

Just counted and they have nearly 40 games for purchase/rental on their service... plus around another 10 games which are exclusive to their monthly "unlimited gaming" service... it's not as limited now as it used to be...

@eat it Remember the start of Steam?

@eat it

But how do those games run?

@Silent Killer01
Unfortunately, yes.

@Silent Killer01
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@Silent Killer01
only onlive multiplayer onlive vs onlive multiplayer onlive only?

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar onlive player vs onlive player . So onlive players cant play with people who bought at retail or steam or any other seller besides.

@WMcPete

I'm very tempted to pick one up at this price. However my connection isn't anywhere near 50mb! I wonder how good the service is on sub-20MB connection.

@NaeemTHM I have a 10mb connection and it runs about the same as described above. No lag, but kind of a pixelated muddy look.

@SilverFireshot

Good to hear it runs well enough. Would you recommend it to someone that already games on a PS3, 360, and PC?

@NaeemTHM
I would. I have a 50" and it looks great on my 12mb connection. It may be the game? Batman: DA looks better than the 360 equivalent. and at the price of a game, with a free game, ya cant loose. Try the connection before you buy on your PC. just download the client and try a demo. No credit card required.

@NaeemTHM

Above stated it looks equal to the 360.. while I cannot argue directly with that. I own Batman on PC and played the OnLive Demo (which is just the full game limited to 30 minutes of play time, so I played the exact 30 minutes on both) and I can say definitively it looks MUCH worse on OnLive. Especially when moving. It seems if you hold still and nothing moves the definition goes up, but when moving it looks very muddy and pixelated. This is on a 20mb connection.

That being said if you are curious if it is worth it to you as a PC, 360 and PS3 gamer.. just try it out on PC for free. You might have better results than I did, and it is absolutely free to try.

@BookishOwl

What?! I do not know what type of setup you are running your 360 on, you must have it running through AV cables if your Onlive version is looking better. That claim is a little ridiculous. Actually, after reading through some of your other posts here, I am kind of wondering if you are not an employee from Onlive. Your posts regarding Onlive sound a little salesman-like to me.

Anyways, I am not knocking Onlive, it is a cool little device, but the graphics are in no way comparable to the 360, PS3, or PC versions of the same games in any of the multiple setups I have seen it running on. You would think with my 50mb hardwired internet connection that would be the case, but it is not. Muddy, and pixilated graphics is what I am seeing. The lag is not much of a problem, but the graphics are definitely a downer for me.

@Jawmuncher
Ya, plus with all the sales going on, im saving mine for Homefront for Deus EX

@Xeno378 Sorry, meant this to be a reply to Dark Archon.

@Axcalibur

Ouch, I live in Ontario and my Service provider has a few diff ones:

$40: 60 GB bandwidth, 14 MBps connection.
$76: 125 GB Limit, 16 MBps.
$60: 125 GB Limit, 30 MBps (Limited to certain areas.. and has farious requirements)
$100: 150 GB Limit, 50 MBps (Limited to certain areas.. and has farious requirements)

$1.50 per GB after the limit, to amax of $30 (20 GB)

Having your games in a cloud gives greater longevity from a purely technical perspective... ideally they would be there as long as you live... nothing would ever go out of print or lost; game saves would remain in tact; data would remain persistent for all users; no need to buy new hardware or switch video inputs; less environmental and financial waste (packaging, manufacturing, shipping); tampering and hacking would be nearly non-existent; more of a boost to independent development and pricing... the list goes on and on.

Cloud computing is the natural evolution of personal computing, and video games run on computers. I would be surprised if the traditional game console exists come 2050. The only problem here is the lack of publisher support, but that's tough right now since publishers are basically retailer liaisons for developers, and to move to a distribution platform like this would cripple their business models.

It's the classic case of progress being hampered by comfortable old-timey conservative fat cats who run this [US] country.

....until few enough people buy the game and onlive takes it out of their catalogue. Take your political garbage and false facts elsewhere

But I mean...what happens when onlive suffers and goes offline for good? Your games go where?

At least in sega's case, you still had your dreamcast with all the games you bought at retail. And you could pop in a game and play it today.

Which I do constantly! Dreamcast & Sega CD FTW!!

@Undying
$66 for a $50 game (with all the expansion packs) in addition to a game console that never has to be upgraded to play future games, and the best controller I have ever owned (its like the PS3 and 360 made sweet-sweet love and produced this gem) is a great deal.

There are other good games on the system too, and they are adding more all the time. They officially launched in December, and already have over 40 titles. give them time. Geeze

$30 if you look hard enough. This is why I will never buy digital copies of games. Unless they start making them very competive in terms of price.

Digital copies should be significantly cheaper! Like half priced or less then it's physical counterpart.