OnLive at E3 after all!

[Overlord_Dave]

It's all in this Joystiq article:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/03/impressions-online-and-live-with-onlive/

Taken from the article:

In summary, the thing works.

I'm feeling hopeful. Thoughts?

 

[phoenixbeast]

It would help me a lot, as all I have is a Wii and a laptop that doesn't due to well with gaming anymore...so I say all the more power to them if they can pull it off

 

[Quadtrix]

"Of the four games, the shooter was the only one that felt slightly sluggish, and it was also the only active multiplayer game out of the bunch, pairing us with other OnLive users scattered around the country"

And I doubt the number of OnLive users playing this so-called shooter is very massive.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

"it claims the service was running over a normal at-home internet connection." and
"An OnLive executive told us that speeds through the modem were averaging four to five megabits per second"

In the UK, the average is below 2Mbps. Also, BT tends to throttle its broadband at certain times, since our network needs serious overhaul.

Although I doubt this system would ever reach these shores.

I'm also still highly skeptical that it would ever work en masse.

 

[MowDownJoe]

"Of the four games, the shooter was the only one that felt slightly sluggish, and it was also the only active multiplayer game out of the bunch, pairing us with other OnLive users scattered around the country"

And I doubt the number of OnLive users playing this so-called shooter is very massive.

They said they had 100 people playing the beta. Assuming an even distribution over all of the games, that means that the multiplayer FPS was lagging with only 25 people. Oww...

 

[bodyklok]

I for one am looking forward to our new OnLive overlords.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

Still Onlive is in it's infancy... if it catches on that means more money and more money means they can research and develop to improve itself.

Honestly, I see Onlive as the one and single serious threat to console gaming in general and the big 3 probably are scared to death at the mention of it's name, especially if it can be shown to work even most of the time...

 

[Overlord_Dave]

About the FPS lagging, they also said this:

It also was a title we weren't that familiar with ... [we can't] try it out and see if it was the service, or if that's just how that game plays.

And as for crappy British broadband... yes, even if OnLive works exactly as they say it will, it won't work in the UK for a loooong time. That makes me a sad panda