"New service could mean game over for PlayStation and Xbox"

[[SCUM] Leroy]

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... 969564.ece

[[SCUM]-Tommee Gunn]

if all the games are online. is the PC game affected. this would stop all mods

[[SCUM] Miginty]

miby not as a mod is an add-on to the game, the publishers could simply add it to the server, and to see if it catches on they could trial it for a month on the server and if no one likes it then it could be removed

[[SCUM] McPhil]

We've been moving new modding product for the xbox 360. Basically you pull the guts of the xbox 360 out and rebuild them inside this case. You can add in a hard drive or two and a plethora of other third-party components. Oddly, once done, the xbox 360 now appears to be a PC...

http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=261&cl_index=1&sc_index=35&ss_index=87

They even put in water cooling tubing slots...

I don't think PC or console gaming is at risk of ending. I think game developers are trying to find new ways and new formats to pull in new potential gamers. Grandma and Grandpa don't play game on a console because it's not respectable but they might buy a game through a browser because it's a service on the internets and browsing is respectable.

[[SCUM] Miginty]

the presentation from the GDC

Holy Grail

oh and who else would say yes if they got that as a facebook invite

[[SCUM] Reaper]

i saw that yesterday very interesting wonder if it will work.

[[SCUM] FeRoL]

Wow this looks awesome, wonder how much it'll cost tho?
Would make the use of hax more difficult aswell

Can imagine this service might put a strain on local exchanges if lots of peeps use the HD connection (5 mb + streaming) ?!

[[SCUM] Leroy]

I'd imagine by the time this comes along we'll have more fiber optic services and better exchanges

[[SCUM] OUTLAW]

Wont work,it would cost way too much to setup and run,and to maintain as well,its just not cost effective.

[[SCUM] Miginty]

miby not outlaw, as they said they have redone the algo's for streaming and made whole new servers, plus theres new servers on the market now that can do i think it was somthing like 2.3 petaflops, which would make the whole "im geein it aw she's goat cap'n bit she canny take much moar" malarky not an isssue

[[SCUM] OUTLAW]

someone else thinks its bollocks as well...


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gdc-w ... rk-article

To give the kind of performance OnLive is promising (720p at 60 frames-per-second) realistically its datacenters are going to require the processing equivalent of a high-end dual core PC running a very fast GPU - a 9800GT minimum, and maybe something a bit meatier depending on whether the 60fps gameplay claim works out, and which games will actually be running. That's for every single connection OnLive is going to be handling.

So, let's say that Grand Theft Auto V is released via OnLive, and (conservatively) one million people want to play it at the same time. We can talk about Tesla GPUs, server clusters, the whole nine yards, but the bottom line is that the computing and rendering power we're talking about is mammoth to a degree never seen before in the games business, perhaps anywhere. There may be a way how this can be handled (more on that later), but even having capacity for 'just' 5,000 clients running at the same time is a monumental effort and expense. It would be the equivalent of us running a single Eurogamer server for every reader who connects to the site at the same time. The expense involved is staggering (not to mention the heat all this hardware would generate - think of the children!).

[[SCUM] Miginty]

i get where there coming from...im just putting a bit of faith in the new algo's theve made and the custom silicon and custom servers, but time will tell.....oi mcphil, dad of three and the rest of our friends from over the puddle, get ur ass over 2 onlive.com and sign up 4 the beta and let us know