With the Game Developer's Conference going on in San Francisco right now, all sorts of interesting new video game technology news is hitting the media. One of the most exciting was the unveiling on OnLive, a cloud-based service that is a lot like Hulu but for video games. The idea is you can play a variety of console and PC games right from your own PC of any level of gamingness or even your TV. Pretty amazing, and definitely next-generation stuff. A lot of the buzz surrounds the ability to play games like Crysis on a less powerful computer. Some think this could be a serious revitalization for PC gaming while others claim it is the death of the consoles. We'll see I guess!Tuesday, March 24, 2009
onlive could be a big deal
With the Game Developer's Conference going on in San Francisco right now, all sorts of interesting new video game technology news is hitting the media. One of the most exciting was the unveiling on OnLive, a cloud-based service that is a lot like Hulu but for video games. The idea is you can play a variety of console and PC games right from your own PC of any level of gamingness or even your TV. Pretty amazing, and definitely next-generation stuff. A lot of the buzz surrounds the ability to play games like Crysis on a less powerful computer. Some think this could be a serious revitalization for PC gaming while others claim it is the death of the consoles. We'll see I guess!
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It won't be a big deal until they solve the latency problem. That being when you hit a button on your controller, it has to communicate with the server and back to your screen in a timely fashion, in order to not look "stuttery" or "delayed".
I see this as a huge problem, as even on my broadband, low latency connection (30 - 40 mS typical) I still see fellow players jumping across my screen (probably with their own lagged connections) in ridiculous fashion.
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