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@Ordeith
It never lags for me but the quality it pretty low though.

@Ordeith
Not sure why people downvoted the truth. OnLive is terrible. Haha.

@Dick Socrates On live might or might not go bust. But gaming on the cloud is the future. You're deluding yourself if you think it's not going to happen.

In 10 years, the only people running games locally on anything will be die hard PC gamers like myself.

Everyone else will be gaming on smart TV's hooked up to the grid, or on mobile platforms like tablets and phones.

@Dick Socrates

Pretty much!

There was a dial-up service for the Atari 2600 I have; basically a modem you plug into the cart-port that dials up their servers. Had some popular games, but their own, too.

Well, of course the service ain't around any more! ;P

@Dick Socrates

lotr and free console- $34.99
amnesia- 40 cents
metro 2033- $5
splinter cell- $5
saints row 3- $17.50
AC:R- $34.99
playpack- $9.99
microconsole- Free

that's a total of $72

I sold the first micro console for $75, and I'm going to sell the second micro console to a friend for $75

I really don't care if those games disappear because I will have gotten paid $78 to play all of those games...I lie I had to spend $20 for shipping on the two consoles. so I only got paid $58.

@eat it

my bad I forgot to add in the price of lotr into the total. but my point still stands. I made money off of these deals. and I have three brand new games, and three that did not make it to the PS3

@Kinthalis

If all you want for the future is a Mushy "Kinect Like" experience, then you can have it.

The physics of Internet data transmission will have to fundamentally change for time sensitive interaction in the cloud to be the future.

Unless that future is completely without games like 'Splosion Man or Super Mario remote viewing services like Onlive ain't happening.

Now a streaming download that executed code locally? THAT could happen, but that isn't what OnLive is.

@Ordeith

"Unless that future is completely without games like 'Splosion Man or Super Mario remote viewing services like Onlive ain't happening."

believe it or not... most gamers' presently go without those games...

@eat it

"I'm going to sell the second micro console to a friend for $75"

Sounds like you're one hell of a friend.

@Dick Socrates

My money is that they are bought up by another company

Probably an ISP, ironically the same ISP that will throttle and cap their service just to drive the final nail into OnLives coffin.

But its ok because for an extra $20 monthly fee they will provide exactly what you were getting before .....

@eat it

Or Forza, or GT

Or any game that requires any amount of precision in their controls.

@Kinthalis
People thought the same thing twenty years ago. It's not going to happen. The cloud is a fad, it will pass like every other fad.

@XLM yes I agree if you call overprice selling to a "friend" then count my out!!!

@Timjoy No, it doesn't have any console exclusives. They're console exclusives for a reason.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

works great for me too. the deals on there are just way too good to pass up. I know the deals are not going to last forever but hell, I may as well take advantage of it while I can.

If you haven't done it already they've had a code going lately "tekzilla50" that takes 50% of any game

I don't have problems with lag and I think the graphics are higher resolution but the textures do get blurred a bit from the video compression. I sort of like OnLive and welcome the future of cloud gaming.

I'm not sold, though. The only reason I haven't bought into this service yet is because they fail to have any games I can't get elsewhere. They need to pull their head out of their ass and get all the PC exclusives with insane tech requirements on there or there's really no benefit to using the service for most gamers.

I would have liked to play Crysis way back in the day, or The Witcher 2 last year, but could not as I am a Mac user. OnLive just isn't filling any holes in the market.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

I have to agree with you here. I have a few games on it. I got my free Microconsole for pre-ordering Arkham City. The lag is a tad noticeable and annoying when trying to play with a mouse, but switching to my wired Xbox 360 controller on my PC, or playing with the Microconsole controller really makes the lag unnoticable for me.

Yes, the graphics aren't going to blow you away. I got Borderlands on it for about $2.50 to compare it to my Steam copy and it looks worse when playing it full screen on my PC monitor. However, playing with the Microconsole on a HDTV really makes it look much better for some reason.

Here's a tip for anyone interested in this special right now. Get a subscription to the Playpack bundle for $10. Then get 33% off your $50 game ($33.50). It saves you more than the $10 cost you, plus you can snag a few other games for 33% off for the next month. Just remember to cancel the Playpack bundle subscription before the next month if you aren't using it.

@arkweld

well the way it works is you can run a 30 minute trial of most games on OnLive. so if those work on your computer it'll probably work on the microconsole.

If it doesn't work, then you know to stay away.

personally I think it's crazy to not try it. if it works on your computer you can play it on there and then sell the console to make a profit. and then you get to play through the new Assassins creed. and use the money you made to buy another game somewhere else

They need to get it together and get a proper iPad / Android client working. That could well be the "killer app" for these things. Console-ish graphics -on a skinny little tablet. And, since its scaled to a smaller/lower-res screen, it's really quite nice looking (so the early previews have said).

@SmashZilla

It isn't speed, it is latency.

and that is very unlikely to change any time soon.