| Kotaku has some decent videos up of the service today. »kotaku.com/5181625/see-onlive-in-action
There are several games they already have up and running right now as a demo at GDC 09 this year. They explain how the resolution displayed will scale to your currently available bandwidth. They were saying 4 to 5 Mbps would be enough to render a 720p game at 60fps. 1.2 Mbps would be needed to do a Wii quality SD image at 60fps.
The games can be streamed down to a Windows PC or a Mac. They also have a thin client box for TV use. Who knows how this will ultimately work out, but I don't think you can outright dismiss this as the next Phantom since there seem to be real demos of the tech taking place. |
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| LOL so the vast majority of users would have something that may or may not look as good as the Wii? Well whooptie doo. This is not a knock against the Wii, personally I love to play the Wii, but camon. The graphics of the Wii are not anything to get excited about. If some company thinks that people will be satisfied with that level of graphics, they are crazy. |
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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | Not graphics of the wii... but the resolution of a wii. |
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said by HeavyC: They were saying 4 to 5 Mbps would be enough to render a 720p game at 60fps. 1.2 Mbps would be needed to do a Wii quality SD image at 60fps. 720p, that'll look incredible! No, wait, a couple years ago that would've been impressive. I'm sure one will sacrifice other visual details as well in order for this to work even halfway decently. I'll spend a few extra bucks and keep building my own systems. I think they're gambling on the fact that a lot of people think it takes $2-5K to buy a good gaming PC and it's good for only 6 months. Nothing could be further from the truth. |
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