Goodbye Consoles?

A new company, called OnLive, has a revolutionary idea for gaming: Remotely hosted, streaming games. What exactly does that mean? It means all the rendering and action is hosted on OnLive's servers, then streamed to your TV with a new, highly optimized compression type.

This type of technology could be win/win for companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, as well as consumers. Consumers wouldn't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a console, and console manufacturers wouldn't have to sell millions of units at a loss. While it still requires a small "console" to work with a television, it is basically a cable box. Using it on a PC simply requires you to install a 1MB plugin.

While the technology even seems impressive now, as more companies take the idea and run with it, I can only imagine it getting better.

Official Site:

http://www.onlive.com/

A little info:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161853/onlive_video_games_without_the_hardware.html?loomia_ow=t0:a41:g2:r5:c0.038051:b23265270

Preliminary Review:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161852/onlive_will_it_beat_xbox_360_ps3_and_wii_at_their_own_game.html