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JD:
This

and this

Darke:
[keanu]Whao...[/keanu]

If that works, it could be the best thing to happen to gaming in years. Possibly ever. Being the kind of person who isn't hugely into PC gaming due entirely to the annoyance and expense of regular upgrades, this makes me all kinds of excited.

Scandanavian War Machine:
yeah, same here.

but i kinda get the feeling that this might end up being one of those good ideas that still ends up flopping, for whatever reason. i dunno though, that's just a mild hunch and not really based on anything.

LTK:
Whoa. Who-ho-ho-ho-hoa. Does that mean that, in the future, you may not need hardware beyond what is necessary to project it on your screen? That is awesome. If Steam incorporated this too, they'll probably be set for life, as well as all of their members who can stop spending loads of cash on hardware upgrades. But wait, what does this mean to the producers? Will NVidia's sales plummet because OnLive is the only one buying their products?

The only problem I can think of is the internet connection. You'd basically be trading hardware reliability for internet connection reliability, but with internet connection failure the loss is much greater. Hmm...

ackblom12:
I really do think the issue is going to be hardware manufacturer's being very unhappy with the situation. I mean, as much as i hate the upgrade cycle on PCs, it fuels a lot of progress in the hardware.

At best, I see this being a more modernized version of Gametap being like, mostly 2 or 3 years behind. Certainly not a bad thing, but there's no way in hell publishers and console giants would allow their newer titles get on this service until sales started dipping.

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