Espen André Øverdahl

OMFG

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:17:35 PM

onlive, omfg, need a cup of coffee, excited, awesome

What if you could stream games, any game, over a decent broadband connection to any device? Shit, a company (and technology) called "OnLive" does exactly this and is coming winter 2009 in the US.

If this is not in place in Europe (Norway) by Q2 2010 I am officially moving to the US.

OMFG, I am so excited right now. This is the future of video gaming. Check out Gamespot's coverage.

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:13:38 PM

Looks cool, more to do in my Opera browser http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -

namedduenker # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:14:09 PM

I know people who are to lazy to get themselves an internet connection. Games which need steam are no option for them, even more something like that.
My brother bought "Empire: Total War" two weeks ago and would immediatly kill the inventor of steam if you presented him

Streaming games sounds fun, but if you want to play a game and you have only that one option it's not better than any other sole option. Diversity should be the key, only offering one way is too narrow minded.

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:16:53 PM

Yes. Only downside is constant Internet connection, but that's not a problem here in Western Europe or in the US. Almost everyone has fiber anyway these days, so...

Angelikiellinidata # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:05:26 PM

as Alexander said in his post
it is like "watching the future"

KYrenKYren # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:35:26 PM

Now India needs decent 3g providers.And yeah,mobile pones should have at least 1Ghz processors and 1Gb RAM.Mali from ARM is a quad core GPU for mobiles.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10201909-64.html?tag=mncol;title#comments

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:09:05 PM

As long as they don't create a horrible revenue model I think this will be ace and may be the future of gaming.

It also might put extra pressure on ISP's to amplify Internet connections.

Christopher DaSilvadannii # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:03:50 PM

Lol Espen! You have such a dirty mouth!

Angelikiellinidata # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:10:30 PM

on a head full of brains

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:56:33 PM

Here are 6 Reasons (according to PCWorld) why OnLive could be a bust.

Angelikiellinidata # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:03:06 PM

I wonder of how do you feel about this comment on PCW ?????

"
**************** says:
Wed Mar 25 13:22:53 PDT 2009

"For this to work, the entire Internet infrastructure would have to be re-done. No more cable or DSL, but rather fiber optic. Such a huge effort would not only be targetted at centralized gaming, but HDTV and VoIP as well. Of course the government would be involved though. So bottom line: I don't see virtualized server-side gaming becoming a reality anytime soon""

KarenNerak # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:11:53 PM

If this is not in place in Europe (Norway) by Q2 2010 I am officially moving to the US.

w00t!!! I'm hoping for an EPIC FAIL.

theoddbod # Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:52:54 PM

Let's see how it works in the real world, with laggy variable speed connections and fighting for bandwidth with a dozen Torrent-obsessed students in the area.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:32:33 AM

a dozen Torrent-obsessed students in the area.

Shaunak DeShaunak # Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:52:40 AM

I surf on a 256 kbps connection.

So you cant blame me for not getting excited.

Will kill for bandwidth.

Dacotah # Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:56:50 AM

namedduenker # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:04:35 AM

I hate the internet connections we have here in germany. Almost everyone has to stick with ADSL, everyday you hear about those *huge* download-speeds, but once a friend wants to send you some photos or videos, it will take hours. In the age of user-generated content this really sucks. Some high quality pictures already may take up several hundreds of megabytes, sending them via adsl to a friends is like slowly killing yourself with a spoon.

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:20:16 AM

Can you sue ISPs for false/diverse marketing?

namedduenker # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:24:19 AM

They are only advertising their download-speeds, that upload sucks is just not mentioned

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:25:57 AM

I have a 10Mbit/s fiber connection at home. Tests indicate 4.5Mbit download, 5.6Mbit upload.

namedduenker # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:32:04 AM

I have about 600 KByte/s download and 70 KByte/s upload, asynchronous connection speed sucks :<

Shaunak DeShaunak # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:42:08 AM

Can you sue ISPs for false/diverse marketing?

Nope.

The maximum speed any ISP offeres here for home users is 2Mbps, capped at 400Mb download limit. (Yes thats right, 400 Mega bytes)
Atleast I get 10GBs. (Slow and steady...)

PS: great new theme.

Dark FurieFurie # Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:49:27 AM

You can sue anyone for false advertising. Hell, if someone in a cafe or bar over here gives you Pepsi but calls it Coke you can get up to £1,000 compensation on top of them being fined £5,000 for passing off.

Narrowly dodged that one myself.

Dacotah # Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:01:55 AM

Wish me luck, I signed up for the beta testing.