Hardware digital distribution upgrades extinct

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

http://kotaku.com/5181300/onlive-makes-pc-upgrades-extinct-lets-you-play-crysis-on-your-tv

This is sounding like it could be revolutionary.
Although building your own computer is part of the experience, an open platform. It could be a good second option for casual and people strapped for cash but I hope this doesn't become the main thing that over-takes how we play games.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

IGN said they ran Crysis on a notebook

"The cool thing here is that your only requirement is a capable internet connection and some sort of computer. In theory, you should be able to play Crysis on a netbook. A handful of us have played the game, at its highest settings, on a MacBook Air with the service. Not only is the game not normally available on the Mac (outside of running Boot Camp), but the MacBook Air is hardly a gaming device, and yet we were able to hop in and play it as smoothly as a nicely-specced machine. We also played Burnout Paradise on a similarly-equipped PC laptop, and despite how quick that game is, it ran and played fine as well.

Do the games run at 60fps? Technically, yes, but the video stream makes it feel less so. They're still smooth, but Burnout wasn't as brisk as it is on a PS3, for instance. But make no mistake - everything we tried was completely playable (and most importantly, quite responsive), and being that you're able to play these games without any dedicated hardware, that's a huge, huge thing."

Theres also a clip

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/articles/9...mostream_032309.html;jsessionid=4mnva8s793tq1

Main Page

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/965/965535p1.html

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

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

more clips

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

How long will it go until running console games too?
I see a lawsuit coming up.
Intel, AMD, NVidia, MIcrosoft, Sony, Nintendo, all of them will join forces and close it down if it gets too sucessful.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

How long will it go until running console games too?
I see a lawsuit coming up.
Intel, AMD, NVidia, MIcrosoft, Sony, Nintendo, all of them will join forces and close it down if it gets too sucessful.

That's a good point.
I wonder if AMD/Intel/Nvidea/ATI (whoever is powering the high end computers) are getting royalties like with there console hardware?

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

That's a good point.
I wonder if AMD/Intel/Nvidea/ATI (whoever is powering the high end computers) are getting royalties like with there console hardware?

That and we will see more and more console exclusives, because there is no point in getting them on the PC.
If you don´t need a high end PC, and the games go to the PC, there is no need to buy a console.
Microsoft will lose money because Windows will stop seeling as much as it does; AMD, Intel, Nvidia, ATI, all of them will lose money because you don´t need to upgrade your hardware anymore.
The only two that are not going to feel that is Sony and Nintendo, until it starts running console games...