New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down

Re:New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside... by Angostura on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:33AM (#530182)

I'm sorry but I'm very very sceptical about this. We are essentially talking about playing games over VNC.

OK, I exagerate but the video compression etc is going to have to be a magnitude or more better than anyone else has achieved and there are people out there who are no slouches at video compression.

I'm sure the demonstrations on a local LAN were great. Let's see it running over the net.

The only way I can see this working is if they persuade (say) cable companies to collocate servers at the exchange.

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Re:New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside... by trapper on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:05AM (#530226)

I don't believe that they would be foolish enough to believe full rendering can be done on servers - it's just not a feasible solution with todays technology unless you are emulating j2me or something.

Perhaps they have something more interesting than that, or there has been some other innovation. I will reserve judgement until the public internet based demo.

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Re:New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside... by Angostura on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @01:29PM (#530434)

Of it's going to be cross-platform, about as far as they can go is to send polygon data for rendering locally. I'm still sceptical, but would of course love to be proved wrong.

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Re:New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside... by trapper on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @05:09AM (#531640)

Agreed. I hope they know something we don't :)

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