Nintendo, Sony and MS 'will never support OnLive'

Chris399 - 151 days 17 hours ago

With their own software and licensing fees? Kudos to OnLive for being the first to do this, but I doubt that they will be the last or the most successful - not by a long shot.

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locos85 - 151 days 13 hours ago

Good because I won't support On-Live. I prefer my games to be played from my home. Not of a server in a faraway land.

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Syronicus - 151 days 13 hours ago

Especially since OnLive is competition for the three companies? It's silly to think that OnLive will ever be a part of the three. They are competitors, not partners.

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likedamaster - 151 days 13 hours ago

"Why would they support OnLive...?
Especially since OnLive is competition for the three companies?"

-I agree. I would still get this service especially with what you can do, i.e. like watch others all over the world playing games, record gameplay, etc. Not a bad service actually, considering what it offers and the absurd amount of games coming out all at the same time. You could have played more than ten games in a month and would have only payed $50(supposing it's that much per month) opposed to roughly $600 if you were to buy all those games.

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darthv72 - 151 days 10 hours ago

you would think MS would be all over that. Yet they have their own streaming service coming to games soon. No doubt sony will offer something similar after observing the results. Nintendo just doesnt have the infrastructure in place to support a service (yet).

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 151 days 10 hours ago

OnLive gaming will be like how you deal with web hosting companies when your site goes down and it was running before and you didn't make any changes. The problem must be on your end!

That is why I will probably never support OnLive, I see no reason to support a service that is likely to be more laggy than the current model. Even though the multiplayer games could be hosted on OnLive server, the video stream and the input received is still likely to be worse than the current system. One interesting side benefit though is that cheating is probably harder.... Perhaps this would be the driving factor.

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FamilyGuy - 151 days 8 hours ago

Seems to me that OnLive competing more with "Games for Windows" than the console specifically.

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mrnintendo96 - 151 days 3 hours ago

Why would Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft support OnLive?? It is their competing console. It's like if Nintendo decided to put "Super Mario Galaxy" on PlayStation Store. It will never happen.

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DeadlyFire - 150 days 15 hours ago

I say OnLive will most likely stay out of console circuit for awhile. Although they did offer that they would partner with anyone. Unless someone new comes along. Microsoft might jump into it. You never know. Apple or EA could also partner up.

GaiKai will most likely be happy to join Nintendo and Playstation. As it is more of a freeish open type service. Even has Mario Kart with hopes for more games from other platforms. Said that Mods will be supported as well. Although must be created through the service as it would be saved on cloud service, but so far that is better than what I have heard about game mods for either of the other two services. GaiKai looks to be better out of the 3 so far.

OTOY service will most likely be ready for Microsoft to jump into. As it is the only service that has been Demoed with an Xbox 360 controller so far. So its very likely it could work on Xbox 360. Controller though could of just been testing thing. Might work with other controllers as well. Not much has been said about this service just yet. Just a few videos on Youtube. Also has videos on Youtube of some great graphics promised, but I don't know what that means if anything for their gaming service. They partnered with AMD for it I believe.

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shiner - 151 days 13 hours ago

I believe as recent as a few months ago, I heard MANY a MS/Sony fan saying their respective console will NEVER support motion controls.

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mrnintendo96 - 151 days 2 hours ago

The thing is if you are a gamer with no Internet, and buy this thing (people who don't come here will) you will be SCREWED. Also if you have a crappy connection it will probably be laggy.

And the BIG first-party games won't be on the system either.

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BX81 - 151 days 13 hours ago

Humph! Technology confuse Thag!!! Thag make fire keep meat-a-sorus at bay! Humph!

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sam2236 - 151 days 14 hours ago

You do know that not everyone has fast internet, right? There's also two little things called lag and contention rate.

How are they going to stream a game like Crysis over the internet without it lagging like hell?

Seriously, OnLive is going to fail.

EDIT: And yes, they're using Crysis to market OnLive.

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Xi - 151 days 13 hours ago

or flushed packets?

How will online deal with these factors, specially with games that require percise timing.

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Major_Tom - 151 days 13 hours ago

Yes I do know not everyone has fast internet and that's why I ended my sentence the way I did.

If anything that is something more centered on competitiveness Xi not really that important in a single player game. By the way you can already try an example of OnLive it's more rudimentary but works under the same construct and it works whether you choose to believe it or not. With proper work being done OnLive can work great.

Don't be afraid of change.

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Xi - 151 days 13 hours ago

Good look trying to play a game like DMC4 or streetfighter 4 or even assassins creed over onlive, half the time regular input with no lag still misses certain combinations or timing let alone what what will happen over a connection. And with games like dante's inferno, bayonetta, Castelvania, AC2 coming out it's not like there's only 1 game that might be affected.

And what about when the services or your provider are doing matainence and you're off line, you can't play any games.

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Major_Tom - 151 days 13 hours ago

You're arguing rhetoric right now there is no use in trying to demean it when you don't have your hands on it. I'm not saying it will be great but for us people who want a change and want to check it out I'm sure they will have their own install base, and for people like yourself who absolutely refuse this is even possible that's great glad you do.

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Xi - 151 days 13 hours ago

No I'm basing this off of logic and current trends. People who believe in onlive are people believing in a pipe-dream and should come back down to reality.

Onlive is the phantom 2 and look at how far the original got.

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Major_Tom - 151 days 13 hours ago

Lol whatever, conversation is done.

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MegaPowa - 151 days 11 hours ago

Don't you think they would of researched into that for gods sake i mean seriously they're not idiots 400mil went into this crap i don't think they would overlook stuff like that

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shiner - 151 days 12 hours ago

Too low of an adoption of high bandwidth internet in Europe?!? If Im not mistaken, most if not all online games and console games played online require high bandwidth/higspeed internet to play online. At this moment there's probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions of gamers playing online in Europe alone.

I'm not sure why console gamers are so scared of Onlive becoming a reality. Your consoles will always be there because of the ease of plugging and playing. Onlive will be just another option for PC gamers to play games, and with the popularity of PC gaming in Asia and Europe, I could honestly see Onlive taking off.

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DeadlyFire - 150 days 15 hours ago

Don't forget Mac and other OSes out there.

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shiner - 151 days 13 hours ago

In other breaking news....Sony "will never support XBoxLive" either, and vice versa.

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shiner - 151 days 12 hours ago

As I can see from the comments, there are alot of uninformed and fanatic console lovers who will bash anything that doesn't fit into their console gaming world.

With the proper set up and connection you can play ANY game online 99% lag free. My PC plays COD4 among others online without so much as a hiccup. Console gamers are just so used to frame drops and connection problems that they think the problems are universal throughout the worldwide gaming community. Wake up apes, this isn't 2002, technology moves along pretty quick nowdays. When you guys are waiting years for your next gen console to come out, PC gamers and tech fans in general are keeping up with the times.

That's why it will come as no suprise to me when Onlive turns out to totally kick a**.

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shiner - 151 days 10 hours ago

OnLive may not be able to use the Big 3, but you better believe the Big 3 will try their best to use OnLive. I can picture this conversation a couple years from now.....

Sony: Hey buddy, I see you got ___million subscribed users. Maybe we
could work a deal to get a Killzone 3 demo out on OnLive.
Of course it's a PS3 exclusive so you can only play the full
game on PS3.

OnLive: OK but it's gonna cost ya ____$

Sony: No prob, It'll be worth it when people come running out to buy
KZ 3 by the truckloads. We'll make that back and then some. Deal

MS: Hey buddy, Maybe we could work out a deal to get a Gears 3 demo
out on OnLive.........

OnLive: We're gonna need bigger wallets.

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II Necroplasm II - 151 days 10 hours ago

paying monthly OnLive fees for down servers all the time too.

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