OnLive roadmap: Achievements, voice chat and more inbound

@koehler83

It does work in Canada ... it is officially supported, it has been for a few months now.

@BoBsS Really?

From their own website:

"At this time, only the US data centers are enabled for the full OnLive Game Service, so if you travel too far from our US data centers, you'll eventually reach the point where you can't play games..."

That's not the kind of service I'd pay for.

@koehler83 I'm in England and I'm getting full service, that's just a statement to cover their asses in case service goes crap outside of the US.

@koehler83 Why don't you try out their online service (i.e. without the console), I believe it's free and they have game demos (correct me if I'm wrong) or maybe trials. In any case, I'm sure there are ways for you to test out how well the service works in your area without coughing up cash.

@koehler83 Just try the service and see if it works well enough for you. Just download the client and play a couple of demos.

@Johnny Neat
At 720p! No thanks!

@a falling stone

Well if he gets the console versions he will be playing at 720p or lower anyways....


and Idk....does EA support this? If it does, I would assume they would put in a console-like experience.

but I doubt it...

@xiLeShadow EA did support OnLive during the beta. Not sure why they have been MIA since the beta ended. May have something to do with them currently supporting Gaikai during their beta period.

With almost every publisher going agnostic when it comes to cloud gaming, I'd really would hate to see a publisher (any publisher) decide that helping to create a "format war in the cloud" as a good idea, and going to one cloud platform exclusively. So I'm hoping that once Gaikai's beta is complete, EA will fully support both services, and not one over the other.

With no less than at least two more cloud services prepping for launch over the next 12 to 24 months, I think the choice of where gamers chose to game, should be left up to the gamer, and not fragmented by greedy game publishers looking to eek out a few extra bucks by taking bribe money to remain exclusive to a single cloud platform.

@MaverickVirus - Oh it's coming. It's already in beta. Matter of fact, Steve Perlman, OnLive's CEO was just showing off the feature a couple weeks ago at the HTC keynote during the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Below is a link to the video of his presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUhraEsGf0&hd=1

@Tachyonic Cargo Great video! That was perfect. That's exactly what I hoped would happen. I'm kinda glad I got a free OnLive Game System (Seriously they give those out for free if you even say the word OnLive lol) because NOW I have an Onlive Game controller. Now to beg for a beta .apk

@MaverickVirus You like that? Wait until you see this.

http://video.allthingsd.com/video/dive-tech-onlive-now-more-than-just-a-game/2D385273-C40C-41D7-B01D-39A6E3B50F9F