Onlive online gaming coming to a cloud near you.
Onlive, in stealth development for the past seven years, launched as a beta today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. We’ve not done any testing but the claims of this service are quite extraordinary and unless they fail to deliver on the promises this could actually become something of the gaming revolution Onlive claims to be as they plan to move console users off their expensive devices and into the cloud and compete very directly with the shrinkwrapped video game market, providing instant streaming and downloads of the latest major games. Onlive allows users to access most popular console video games, download and play them over broadband on a computer or TV using a special adapter.
Historically console games have had perceived advantages over PC based games but Onlive suggests they’ve bridged that gap and that their massive server infrastructure combine with special coding of the applications such that a normal computer equipped with broadband will see outstanding game play.
