I apologize if this has been posted before. I paged through a few pages back to see if any recent threads were posted on the topic and I didn't see any, so I figured I'd post this.
Anyways, on to the topic!
http://www.onlive.com/
The new revolutionary way of how games are going to work. The ability to stream games to your TV using your internet connection, allowing you to never need to own/purchase a game ever again.
But not only does it free up the ability for you to not have to purchase games, it also brings together all three consoles and PC games on one system basically. Yes you heard me right, games from all systems available on one.
So I was just wondering if anyone else has heard about this new revolutionary idea of how gaming will work and had any thoughts about this? There is a lot of skepticism about whether this will work when there are many options for problems arising (internet issues/not actually owning games/etc).
I doubt you'll never have to purchase a game again. Probably what will happen is you'll have to buy it from somebody, like how you buy arcade games off Xbox live. Then instead of actually owning the game, you own a little bit of data. I'd rather have a hard copy any day.
The infrastructure isn't available to make something like this work on a large scale for a long time. Think about the servers necessary to host the content, the bandwidth to provide that content to a large population, and the monetary investment required to even get it off the ground, with a potentially high risk of the business going belly up before it turns any kind of decent profit.
I'd say the industry is a long way away from this kind of model, if it ever develops it at all.
