Thread: Online system 99 bucks, any fans?

About six months after it first began streaming high-end PC games to tiny desktop clients via broadband, OnLive is poised to unleash its Game System package: a game controller bundled with a compact, Wi-Fi- and HDMI-equipped console that'll stream games like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Assassin's Creed II to your HDTV, all for less than $100.

Set to start shipping Dec. 2, the $99 OnLive Game System comes with a controller that looks pretty much like the controller you get with an Xbox 360. But the so-called MicroConsole is something else: Instead of a big box juiced with a high-powered GPU and loads of RAM, the MicroConsole is a little more than a paperback-book-sized conduit for the OnLine streaming game service, which is powered by a series of data centers across the country.

OnLive Plug the MicroConsole into your HDTV's HDMI input, connect the console to your home network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, power on the wireless game controller, and (OnLive promises) you'll be ready to start gaming—in 1080p and surround sound—in seconds. (The miniature console also comes with a pair of USB ports for gaming on mouse and keyboard.)

The OnLive Game System represents a fascinating if controversial alternative to owning a $300-ish PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

And make no mistake—it's not for everyone.

As I explained in my hands-on review of OnLive for PC and Mac several months ago, the service does an impressive—but not perfect—job of streaming games with high-end graphics to midrange and even entry-level systems that normally wouldn't have a prayer of running, say, Assassin's Creed II at 60 frames per second.

That's because all the heavy lifting is done at OnLive's various server farms, which are stuffed with bleeding-edge PCs that run the games themselves.

The OnLive desktop client—or now the MicroConsole—is simply streaming the audio and video of the game to your system or HDTV, with the help of a proprietary compression algorithm designed to keep latency (that is, the lag between your pulling a trigger and seeing your game character fire a weapon) to a minimum.

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OnLive $99 Game System: The future of console gaming? - Video Games Blog Plugged In - Yahoo! Games

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Notice that the Google dumb terminal they sent out had virtually NO capacity for gaming.

How can that work? So you download the game and play it but you still need ram, CPU and video card to process graphic intense stuff. Seems fail to me.

GFX card is always the key.

SOunds to me like it is a good system. I would not mind having one.

Never heard of this one. But I really finding it interesting.

Unless you've got a T1 at your home this isn't a good idea. Server side streaming of the graphics engine is going to be bandwidth heavy and most residential connections won't be sufficient.

Originally Posted by iebo

Unless you've got a T1 at your home this isn't a good idea. Server side streaming of the graphics engine is going to be bandwidth heavy and most residential connections won't be sufficient.

Agreed. Games eat up a lot more resources and playing some of them this way is going to cause a lot of quality issues. It sounds like a wonderful idea in theory but I don't think it'll amount to much in practice.