GDC: OnLive press conference in video, Crysis shown running on Dell laptop

So if in the future everything is done online what will happen to the millions of video game shops and the people who work there…?

@Gekidami

Mate, who gives a shit? Lots of other work to do.

Hmm… interesting.

Yeah, this sort of thing definitely needs a real world test.

I can’t be bothered to watch the whole video, so I’ll just be lazy and ask if anyone knows if there is a mention of price anywhere in there?

LOL @ portaprima.

@ Gekidami: They will have to change their business model and adapt, or simply go out of business.

720p is pretty low-res for high-end PC games these days. I can’t see OnLive competing for those of us who want to play games in high resolution. It seems more of a service for casual gamers.

@G1GAHURTZ
That’s about what I ment

“I can’t see OnLive competing for those of us who want to play games in high resolution.”

Or gamers who don’t want horrible lag between the video and the controls.

it is good only on the world

Or those who like to play there games while not being connected to the internet, for whatever reason.

But for the billions of other people, it’ll be good.

Not that I’m saying I like it, but mainstream is where the growth is.

Strangely though, they seem to be targetting the hardcore gamers, so far.

Watching who’s the best at each game… Demo’s of Crysis Warhead… Recording your last 15 seconds of pwnage… etc.

Well its PC games which is all they have access to at the moment and while some in the hardcore PC gamer scene wont like it because they need to justify that $500 GPU they are a drop in the ocean when it comes to consumers.

There a lot of people who could be interested in games & not care about the tech & want it to just work, its a really graet idea & the whole video is worth watching.

Even the graphics whores could get turned eventually as if it were successful their data centers could pump out games with visuals better than any PC or games console could manage (too few high end PC’s to justify cost and consoles have hardware limits).

The biggest hurdle is data centers they need to set up (3 in the USA at the moment from the vid) so unless there is one in your country then no proper access to the service.

“Watching who’s the best at each game… Demo’s of Crysis Warhead… Recording your last 15 seconds of pwnage… etc.”

Why do you think the mainstream wouldn’t be interested in this sort of thing?

I’m sure that some of them are, but if you are targeting the mainstream, you give them things that you know that they like, like The Sims, or some sort of Wii Sports clone.

Not Crysis and a twist on the features on Halo 3′s multiplayer…

I’d imagine they showed Crysis to show that they can do fast-paced games and not just poker. The other stuff could be applied to any type of game. See, for example, The Sims movie mode.

They were showing it at GDC, not to the general public.