So OnLive just canned their plans for subscription fee, which is just as well as I was feeling slightly ripped off that the founding members program was only available to Americans when I'm 2 hours away from Seattle. It's mainly interesting to me for running games on my NetBook, which is what I did.
-Connected over WiFi, and it worked overall but 2 times in 45 minutes the connection quality lowered to the point that the game stalled. A bit annoying, hopefully they'll work it out, or maybe I'll have to buy a long ethernet cable.
-I didn't check bandwidth usage before starting, which I should have, but after 45 minutes of play I didn't see anything to suggest there was huge usage, so one of the concerns I had that I'd need to buy additional bandwidth probably won't be an issue.
-Having Batman Arkham Asylum run perfectly smooth without troubles on a Netbook with a 1.6GHz Atom and integrated graphics was pretty sweet.
-The software selection is small, the optional 3 day and 5 day passes seem fairly pointless given the available titles. I can't think of anything other than Akrham Asylum that I'd want to buy, so it's by no means a replacement for another console, or even a gaming PC, really only useful if your system doesn't have the specs to handle it.
-Controls are detected without configuration, I plugged in my Cyborg P3200 gamepad, it detected without a fuss and the on screen hints immediately switched to telling me what I needed to use.
I can see it having potential for me - 1 or 2 good titles on my netbook is pretty nifty, I wouldn't be playing them all that much so the bandwidth usage shouldn't be an issue, and it might turn out to be quite appealing to people who have older systems, like a P4 or Athlon XP, or anything with Intel graphics. With a new generation of gamers being used to playing everything in their browser, downloading a client might not seem like such a big deal and might actually be worth it compared to figuring out what they want to buy for a solid gaming PC. MMORPGs could also work really well. I wouldn't mind seeing Guild Wars 2 on it.
-Connected over WiFi, and it worked overall but 2 times in 45 minutes the connection quality lowered to the point that the game stalled. A bit annoying, hopefully they'll work it out, or maybe I'll have to buy a long ethernet cable.
-I didn't check bandwidth usage before starting, which I should have, but after 45 minutes of play I didn't see anything to suggest there was huge usage, so one of the concerns I had that I'd need to buy additional bandwidth probably won't be an issue.
-Having Batman Arkham Asylum run perfectly smooth without troubles on a Netbook with a 1.6GHz Atom and integrated graphics was pretty sweet.
-The software selection is small, the optional 3 day and 5 day passes seem fairly pointless given the available titles. I can't think of anything other than Akrham Asylum that I'd want to buy, so it's by no means a replacement for another console, or even a gaming PC, really only useful if your system doesn't have the specs to handle it.
-Controls are detected without configuration, I plugged in my Cyborg P3200 gamepad, it detected without a fuss and the on screen hints immediately switched to telling me what I needed to use.
I can see it having potential for me - 1 or 2 good titles on my netbook is pretty nifty, I wouldn't be playing them all that much so the bandwidth usage shouldn't be an issue, and it might turn out to be quite appealing to people who have older systems, like a P4 or Athlon XP, or anything with Intel graphics. With a new generation of gamers being used to playing everything in their browser, downloading a client might not seem like such a big deal and might actually be worth it compared to figuring out what they want to buy for a solid gaming PC. MMORPGs could also work really well. I wouldn't mind seeing Guild Wars 2 on it.
