Demand for streaming games service OnLive since its launch in the UK last Thursday has been "overwhelming", OnLive's VP of Games & Media John Spinale has told GamerZines, revealing that the firm had not been expecting the level of demand that the service has been experiencing over its launch weekend.
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."
What a few 1000/100 people downloading demos? I hope people In the Uk are not actually buying from them smh
I don't know how much I can stress that Onlive will be a major service. Many people are trying to downplay it for its flaws, but it's too early to say it will fail. Look at the service, its cost effective and publishers and developers are getting their share. Every producer wants that opportunity.
Someone needs to invent a technology similar to OnLive that you can install on your gaming PC, which allows you to play your installed games over the internet under a private connection. Assuming it worked well, it would be killer for people who want to be able to take their PC gaming elsewhere without having to unhook and transport your tower, monitor and other stuff with you.
Probably the future of gaming but watch Apple or MS do it better.
People coming in for a $1. Yeah let's wait until the price bounces up to normal price and they get a good feel for server load and lag. Online was the biggest POS I ever bought. Is it the future? Maybe....but not the near future..broadband speeds would need to be more uniform and bigger before this would receive widespread adoption.