Will OnLive Change Gaming Forever?

OnLive has the potential to be a revolution in thedetrimental to the experience of OnLive
technology of video game platforms. It promisesgameplay. OnLive claim to have developed new
to break players out of the continual platformtechnologies to minimize this effect, particularly a
upgrade cycle, making it no longer necessary tovery fast video compression technique, but as it
keep buying the latest expensive console or PCis fundamentally down to a physical law
hardware to play the latest games.(information cannot travel faster than light) there
Instead, the game is run on a server belonging tois a clear minimum level of latency that must
OnLive, and a video feed of the game isexist on the service. Others point out that the
transmitted to the player, to be decoded eitherclaims
by a program on their PC or on a special OnLiveOnLive have made regarding superior,
"microconsole" connected to a TV. The player'shigh-definition image quality to a normal gaming PC
interactions with the game, like button presseswill be un-economical to provide, as they must run
and joystick movements, are sent back to theservers based on a large number of very
server and used to control the game. It is,expensive high level graphics cards. Ultimately,
essentially, a streaming video service like YouTubewithout providing public proof that the service
for games. However, skepticism persists on theworks by launching it, OnLive will find it impossible
internet, centered on the work of technicalto convince the majority of gamers that their
experts like Rich Leadbetter. The buzz in forumssolution is a credible one. However, their claims
tends to be negative, with many pointing out thathave generated a great deal of interest, if not
the latency involved in any internet communicationconfidence.
(also known as "ping") will be clearly noticeable and