VP John Spinale on the future of cloud gaming
Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat writes: "OnLive has teamed up with British game retailer Green Man Gaming to resell subscriptions for OnLive’s cloud-gaming subscription service. The deal is the first of its kind in which a game retailer resells OnLive’s online bundles of games delivered via web-connected data centers, or the cloud."
With all the recent subscription services increasing in popularity including EA Access and PS Plus, The Game Fanatics decided to take another look at OnLive and how it could be the dark horse in the video game streaming race.
I still have onlive and compared to psn now it seems faster response time, and the ui is tons better. Imho.
Samit Sarkar of Polygon writes: "War Thunder, the free-to-play military MMO from Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment, is launching today on CloudLift, the cloud-based gaming service from OnLive, the latter company announced today.
CloudLift, which OnLive debuted this past March in open beta, is a subscription-based service that allows players to "lift" a limited selection of Steam titles they already own to the cloud, and then stream them to a variety of devices without needing to download the full game. Those devices include Mac- and Windows-based computers, as well as TVs and Android tablets. Because CloudLift is integrated with Steam, save games are synced across devices."
$500? would be nice and cheap, more like £500 here in the uk lol
i would pay a grand for the next ps
Err, how are we going to get the same games with Onlive when the exclusives for the PS3 will not appear on it.
Seriously there will not be Uncharted 4 with Onlive.
I wish people would think before they stink.
I know for a fact, the next Playstation and Xbox 360 will retail for no more than £350. This generation laid the foundations for next generation and PS4/Xbox 720 will be a technical refinement of the PS3/360 rather than a massive leap like it was from the 6th generation.
As such, they'll be cheaper to develop and will won't retail for £425 like the PS3 once did.
OnLive sounds alright but I don't think it has much staying power at all. My opinion? Online gamers WILL pay $400 for PS4 and won't even give OnLive a second glance. You know it. I know it. This thing won't kick off for another gen or so if at all.
There will be no Gears of War, no Halo, no Uncharted, no COD (as of yet), no God of War, no Pokemon, no Mario, no Street Fighter, no Metroid, no Zelda....I need no go any further.
I want a product that offers great exclusive games, Onlive offers no such thing.