OnLive Adding Wi-Fi To Game Streaming Device > hahahaha

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and said people should develop their own gaming system or add to it just like these people did »www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=13085610

Why develop my own when the current offerings get the job done? We are just merely pointing out this offering has some very fatal flaws. The worst of which is mentioned in the article Romney2012 linked(thanks for that), which is the games costing full retail, besides the service fee. It did point out the potential niche of netbooks, but most of those will likely be shut out on the go by the 5mbps requirement. Do you know many public wifi spots that deliver that consistently? I have lived in some of the biggest cvities this side of the pond and it seems to be a relative handful.
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I know for Playstation you don't have to, but don't you have to pay a subscription fee to XBox Live to play online? I don't have either, but what is the real difference between XBox Live and this OnLive stuff?

You can't even load the game and play 1 player games with On-Live without the service being paid for and your broadband connection working. Plenty of 1 or 2 player games for XBOX that also work on XBOX Live as multiplayer.
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reply to Luker3
The difference is you own the game, and not have a two year rental.

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reply to Selenia
and why are you using the resources of a public hotspot to game? that's not why its offered. Speeds are limited there due to this. People that game on their systems and just want ot free load for the bandwidth.

And why develop? Because its a way for you to make what you want for yourself and anyone else that has a problem with the way their products are build/designed for the public. but instead you take the lazy way out and bitch about their product and how it has flaws and is going to fail. Well news flash! they're investor and partner is the largest Telco in the United States. It's far from going to fall.
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The lazy way out because I critique a product that has obvious flaws, you are a funny guy LOL. Most of which don't exist in any other product on the market(retail price for a 1-2 year rental, latency issues, insane bandwidth requirements). I never said I run this on hotspots. I wouldn't run it period, mainly because of full retail price for rentals and not a fast enough broadband connection available even at home to support it(though I am looking at wirelessly backhauling a 15 mbit TWC connection from the next city, but not for this thing with its 1-2 year rental bullshit). I guess I am too busy designing networks to worry about learning to design gaming hardware too. So sorry LOL. As to freeloading, I almost never use public, wifi for anything. I play FFXI on the go over my good ole AT&T data card. The game requires less than a 56k modem to work perfectly. The stereotype you buy into that games are bandwidth intensive is just false. A few may be, but not the majority.
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well why bitch about the product if you're not going to use it just becaues it has flaws. they have customers and are making the $$$. if they didn't the product still wouldn't be afloat but T also has a good share of $$$ invested.

and the latency issues aren't a problem with OnLive. I use them and it works just fine.
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That is actually surprising, given you're in Ohio. Aren't all their servers in CA, at this point? You must have some good routing then. Still, you gotta figure at least +80ms or so on the controls plus server response time, especially under load. That would actually be good, but still not compare to a game running locally. For those sick of upgrading the PC just for games(especially if they run Linux), there is still the XBOX360 or PS3(even though I'm pissed at Sony). You would get a better experience that way and still own your games forever. I would try this service , other than my small test on a friend's laptop, if the pricing weren't so insulting. Full retail for a 1-2 year rental, plus an inevitable monthly fee just for the right to play? Screw that! I'll get the boxed game with all the art, etc and own it forever. I still play the old FF and Zelda games, to name a couple. They wouldn't be such classics if people only rented them for 1-2 years for around $60.
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