PS4 to fail because of OnLive?

[DJ-Daz]

Videogame download service OnLive could halt the success of the next generation of consoles if it can deliver a similar experience to that offered by the Move and Kinect devices, claims Michael Pachter.

OnLive currently allows gamers to access well known hit titles such as Assassin’s Creed II for $39.99 (£25.51) for unlimited play to a three-day pass on Batman: Arkham Asylum for $4.99 (£3.18).

Asked whether the service can compete with the next generation of consoles from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo in four or five years time the Wedbush Morgan analyst told IncGamers: “I'm not sure where OnLive will be by then. If they can deliver a similar 3D/virtual reality experience (to Move and Kinect), we may not see new consoles succeed.”

I dont see it happening, not unless every gamer has a fibre-optic connection. Plus there will always be the ones who deliberately want to hold out, also who's going to want to pay £xx.xx per month, every month? Then you have "pirate syndrome" where you have too much choice, you wont know what to play, and you'll end up playing less and less.

[theENIGMATRON]

I have access to this.

I just never got around to placing my card details in....
(You get first 12 months free)

[InfiniteStates]

I dont see it happening, not unless every gamer has a fibre-optic connection.

^This.

You know how shit the internet gets on weekends, when all the little tykes that should be in school are checking Facebook and whatever else they do to kill the internet.

My understanding is that the game executes server side and control inputs and image data are transmitted to/from the client side? I think it's readily apparent that our internet isn't capable of supporting that level of traffic or anything near it if it became popular.

And you can kiss goodbye to 60 frames per second too. 15 is what I'd put my money on, which is barely acceptable for framerate, but piss poor for controls.

And you know they'll develop this in a controlled environment, like every other network thing, them it will fall over as soon as it's released into the wild.

[theENIGMATRON]

Testing this ATM
Severs are normally within 10 - 15 miles

Anything out this area it will not work, So for it to work you don't need a super internet,
Just a server Supporting / Hosting Onlive in reach (Not sure if it is 10 - 15 miles, but you do have to be close)

I wanted to try this being in the UK and the servers being in the US to see how shit the lag is on the controls,

but i could never be assed with the Making a US Card and then signing up using an address in there area