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OnLive to stay away from E3 News
PC News by Games Industry.biz
Gaming download service OnLive won't be putting in an appearance at E3 this year.
Writing on the OnLive blog executive Mike McGarvey stated, "More than anything, E3 is a retail-oriented conference, both for retail platforms and retail publishers, and OnLive is neither."
Expect more news soon, though: "You’ll hear and see plenty from us this year in the run up to our external Beta and launch, delivered directly to your home through your broadband connection."
OnLive was first unveiled back in March, you may recall. It works with a potentially revolutionary form of cloud computing that allows users to download high-end AAA titles on demand and run them remotely, regardless of system specification.
"Because we’ve eliminated physical media and full downloads, there’s nothing to steal and nothing to resell, giving publishers complete control over their product," said McGarvey. "By providing a powerful end-to-end development-to-distribution model, OnLive can dramatically alter videogame economics, increase profit margins and provide new and enhanced monetisation channels."
Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter is sceptical, though - read his article about OnLive to find out why.
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Wastelander
21/05/09 @ 09:20
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"OnLive can dramatically alter videogame economics, increase profit margins and provide new and enhanced monetisation channels."
MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! and run |
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rhubarbandcustard
21/05/09 @ 09:30
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I think FAIL has been the response from all gaming web sites since OnLive first revealed their plans.
In the UK, as an example, this could never work as broadband infrastructure is shocking, as are most aspects of the UK, the shit hole that this country is. |
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Britesparc
21/05/09 @ 09:37
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Hands up who's surprised?
/looks round office, can't see anyone with their hands up Nuff said. |
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OnLive: We have this great new product that could make piracy impossible and make money of titles people just wouldn't buy, you interested there, Chief?
Publisher: Uhh, yes in theory. Let's see where it goes. OnLive: Great, so we can say you're part of the system in our marketing hype! (repeat a few times) OnLive: Hey, we've got all these great publishers interested in our idea, you interested in funding this, Chief? VC: Wow that's some big names (these guys must really be onto something). Sure, lets get going! (repeat a few times) OnLive: We'll be rocking the internets to its core! Everyone on the Internet: This shit will never work... input lag anyone? ... silence ... OnLive: We don't feel that huge gaming events are really the right place to show anything about our product at. Everyone on the Internet: Codename Phantom huh? Nice. |
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killuminati2911
21/05/09 @ 10:01
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Maybe this will work! Ont he 3 PCs 3 meters away from the hosting server..
It wil NEVER EVER work for us atleast in ITALY where BB is even worst than say... lituania.. I guess that some law cort will sue them one day for financial crime.. |
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Hmm... avoiding media exposure does kinda indicate the system isn't as good as they first thought, the 'idea' of the system is groundbreaking and I'm sure that they aren't the only company in any indrustry looking at this new tech, but as said many a time unless 'the internet' is globally equal in quality, it's only going to truly work in certain regions.
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E3 = Huge focus of gaming attention both retail and everyone else, lets face it everyone in gaming pays attention to E3
Onlive = A purposed games industry changing service that you would assume they would like to get retailers interested in and everyone else but yet their not showing it there's something wrong here and yet I can't quite work out what that is.... |
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@ rhubarbandcustard
'In the UK, as an example, this could never work as broadband infrastructure is shocking, as are most aspects of the UK, the shit hole that this country is.' Well, as I send this comment via my flawless 10Mb Virgin broadband I'm looking out of the window and although yes it is raining I can see trees and people and dogs and cars and everything seems to be just fine. So no shit hole at my location in the UK anyway. Anyone else care to report? |
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Vanmunt
with a caring and loving attitude like that its clear that you're doing all you can to help out your fellow man and make where you live the best it can be. So from everyone, thank you for not giving up and sitting on your fat arse bitching about how people not as lucky as yourself are evil. |
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@ Moggsy
Reporting in, having consumed my lovley steak sarnie and sipping a latte whilst working on how to grow my business which I am given all the oppurtunity to make a sucess of (if I am willing to work!) and generally enjoying all that we have here. Oh and I lived in Melbourne and Sydney for a year, Melbourne being one of the most "livable" citys on earth, so I know of what I speak when I say: The grass is always greener (or in Melbournes case yellow) We have it better here than we think That said I would rather live in Vancouver ;) |
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Petulant_Radish
21/05/09 @ 12:10
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I’m in sunny London and it’s all rather beautiful around Regents Park, certainly no shithole here. I love my city, aside from the south part of it, that’s all shit.
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For frak sake Onlive is a bloody con job. I don't care who is fronting it, it's an utter nonsense! I originally thought it was an april fools joke as no inverstors would be stupid enough to lob millions of dollars/pounds into something that would require insane amounts of hardware and speed of light comms with zero lag, to actually work as described.
I think Wastelander is of the same opinion as me. Someone somewhere is commiting serious fraud with a view to running off to the camen islands! |
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@polaris70
Ok so I buy an OnLive game, finish it then want to give it to my mate. I can't can I because I don't possess a physical copy. So there is no such thing as buying an OnLive game, more like eternal renting. It's a subscription service like Steam. You don't buy the games you buy the non-transferable rights to play the game for as long as the service exists. At least, it's that or a technically infeasible load of cack. :) |
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AphoticCosmos
21/05/09 @ 14:16
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@moggsy
Your line may be a nice 10MBps, but the average UK line is a shockingly bad 3.4MBps as tested and reported by BBC Click. And considering that even the South-east [which at the moment has the most fibre connections of any non-metropolitan region in the UK] isn't scheduled for a full fibre switch-over until at least early 2011, it'd be bloody ages before this service became usable across most of Britain. |
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@Whizzo
It's a subscription service like Steam. Steam isn't a subscription service, perhaps you mean something like Gametap? Erm... yes. That's exactly what I meant... congratulations you... erm... you broke my code! ;) I'm not 100% sure btw, but I believe that's one of the enhanced monetisation channels. |
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Well, on the bandwidth front, my 16Mb "MAX" Sky broadband is currently synchronised at 832kbps, and I'm getting a lot less than that in actual transfer, probably due to contention issues. Even if it does work (which it probably won't), the audience is inherently limited by the speed of light and the conductivity of copper.
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Sunyavadin
21/05/09 @ 15:31
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Come on guys, even Infinium bothered to make a convincing show of the Phantom at E3.....
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"In the UK, as an example, this could never work as broadband infrastructure is shocking, as are most aspects of the UK, the shit hole that this country is."
It's not so bad. In the US the comms infrastructure is extremely outdated in a lot of area's as well. If they can do it on the shoddy lines that run across the US, they most certainly can do it here. |
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onyx_elite
21/05/09 @ 17:40
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We can all see it but i don't think they can. The writing's been on the wall from day one with this piece of junk. We're not about to swallow that kinda crap even if they have. We'll hear little else of OnLive, no doubt. Way to overstretch yourselves, asshats.
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Sunyavadin
22/05/09 @ 09:41
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"In the UK, as an example, this could never work as broadband infrastructure is shocking, as are most aspects of the UK, the shit hole that this country is."
Also, I live in Newcastle, not one of the best parts of the country by a long shot, but my 50Mb broadband does me QUITE nicely, thank you very much.
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Maybe you need a couple of months living in a 3rd world country to get things in perspective?
That is easy: The original definition of "third world" was countries not aligned to either USA or Soviet Union; I shall pick Sweden as a totally random example, and lo and behold they have great broadband!
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