Posted 03-24-2009 at 04:20 PM by Boucher
Updated 03-24-2009 at 04:22 PM by Boucher
[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/onlive.videogame.console/"]http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/onlive.videogame.console/[/URL]
[QUOTE][I]Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
Popular video games like the "Grand Theft Auto" series may soon be available on a new system.
It's too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.
OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system -- seven years in the works -- that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels.
The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.
The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.[/I][QUOTE]
The actual website
[URL="http://www.onlive.com/"]http://www.onlive.com/[/URL]
I dunno about this, this could be the time when we forget about which console we play on and band together to keep console gaming alive and well
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