Derrick
09-12-2010, 03:20 PM
A new gaming service in conjunction with the most prevelant gaming design and distribution houses around today, is coming to US homes very soon. The service will bring gaming to homes via fast Internet connections but not the way you would imagine. This is not exactly a STEAM clone, or something like it even. What the service will do is enable high end gaming streamed using cloud computing technology. You do not need a super duper computer or console for that matter. In fact their console has been tested by independant testers at 720p. The service will bring large amounts of content previously not available on Mac to the Apple environment.
In about 6 hours their website at www.onlive.com will go live with information on the service to the public. Doubt we would see anything like this in South Africa soon but as always it is good to know what can be done should South African service providers wake up one day. The list of content providers include, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive Software, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, THQ, Epic Games, Eidos, Atari Interactive and Codemasters. The idea is not new by a long shot but access speeds has cought up with the idea and this could be the beginning of a whole new angle to game distribution. Hardware requirements for rendering are a lot less due to the processing having been done offsite, which means you could turn a relatively low specification system into a decent gaming computer by simply downloading the required software assuming you have the technology available to you. Would be interesting to see exactly how many would be able to use this service. I assume OnLive thinks there should be enough to turn a profit and if so they should expect some competition from the big guns in the console business.
USA Today has got an interesting article on the new service.
In about 6 hours their website at www.onlive.com will go live with information on the service to the public. Doubt we would see anything like this in South Africa soon but as always it is good to know what can be done should South African service providers wake up one day. The list of content providers include, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive Software, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, THQ, Epic Games, Eidos, Atari Interactive and Codemasters. The idea is not new by a long shot but access speeds has cought up with the idea and this could be the beginning of a whole new angle to game distribution. Hardware requirements for rendering are a lot less due to the processing having been done offsite, which means you could turn a relatively low specification system into a decent gaming computer by simply downloading the required software assuming you have the technology available to you. Would be interesting to see exactly how many would be able to use this service. I assume OnLive thinks there should be enough to turn a profit and if so they should expect some competition from the big guns in the console business.
USA Today has got an interesting article on the new service.