I could see this being really cool for some kinds of games, but I'm very skeptical when it comes to fast action games. What games have you tried, and how bad was the latency?
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I could see this being really cool for some kinds of games, but I'm very skeptical when it comes to fast action games. What games have you tried, and how bad was the latency?
Tried this out and it works really well. Surprised how well done it is actually. My only question is how do you increase the resolution? It looks pretty low, 480P maybe? Everything else runs fine. Everything is really playable and doesnt seem to be affected by lag at all. I tried a few FPS games and I could kill shit no problem.
I too gave this a shot, Just Cause 2 wasn't terrible, and shit if I had like a laptop or something this could be fun for when I'm on campus, but it's not even a fraction of as nice as the game runs on my hardware. I don't see anyway how it ever could be; bandwidth aside, they can't upgrade all their machines as quickly as home PCs are capable of being upgraded. So even when the internets is fast enough that you can stream it perfect, their rendering won't ever catch up to a home PC, it might get close, but it won't ever actually catch up.
Nice for people who don't want to build a gaming PC though.
This is a huge market. Also, imagine once they get into mobile apps, etc - being able to access your games on any device. Got a screen and internet connection, play your games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
It also looks like they're launching a Netflix Instant-style subscription service for certain games for $10/month.
I'm aware of that but I'm interested in only the mini-console's performance. As other people said, this is clearly the future of gaming so even though I have the games available, I just want to try it from a tech perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anal Kaboom
Hope they can keep the game price's reasonable since PC game prices fall to the sub $15 level very quickly.
I'm in the US now trying out OnLive on my parents' crap cable connection (Charter). Ninja Blade was quite jerky and bordered on unplayable but oddly enough Metro 2033 and Unreal ran decently enough (around 30fps) in 720p but still noticed a decent amount of artifacting in the feed. The arena feature is pretty neat.
Just tried this on Fios amd it works surprisingly well. Downloaded, installed and made an account in less than 5 minutes. I played some fear 2 and the only weird thing was that my mouse wouldn't highlight menu options when I was directly over them. If I was just below what I wanted, it would highlight it. Colors looked kinda washed out and the resolution didn't seem all that high. Didn't notice any lag in gameplay or artifacting and it loaded fast. My computer cam definalty run in better on it's own but this is some wild tech going on here. The potential for this is pretty crazy, it just needs some maturing. I really like the UI too.
man now I want to try it out even though I don't need it.
The free PC/Mac demo goes to the end of this week I think. It's worth trying just to see it in action.
Yeah the free play Netflix-style subscription service is great. Just needs MOAR GAMEZ.