OnLive On PS3 & 360

[Robin]

OnLive's founder said today that he hopes to bring the system to PS3 and 360....

"We are quite open, if the opportunity arises, to allow OnLive to run on consoles," Perlman admitted in an exclusive interview with T3.

With Perlman insisting OnLive is designed to be "complimentary to consoles rather than a direct competitor," the service's founder, CEO and president has expressed his interest in having OnLive run on the current market dominating Xbox 360 and PS3 devices.

"We've been actively pursuing running OnLive on consoles since the beginning," Perlman said. "The other people that are pushing it are the publishers."

He added: "There is no technical obstacle, the only real boundary is the console makers, they have to decide what is available on their consoles. We use a very small fraction of the computing power of a console to make OnLive work, it runs just fine on all of them, even the Wii."

Seeing as OnLive can run on anything even a smartphone the consoles are more than capable but would Sony and MS ever allow such a thing? It would be like having a competitor right within your product! but they could take a nice cut.

I have to say it would be pretty sweet to have it on your console because then you could play with the one controller and switch easily between your own collection and the streamed collection. Plus this would mean top notch PC graphics feeling like its coming from your console.

Thoughts?

 

[Tornado]

Plus this would mean top notch PC graphics feeling like its coming from your console.

It doesn't mean that.


tl;dr: If you're lucky, the PC version of the game you are streaming with OnLive will match the PS360 port of the same game in visual quality. More likely, however it will look worse overall rather than better.

 

[Akira AC]

I found OnLive really convenient for some things, inconvenient for some others, and overall, I believe that it wont happen.

It wont happen for several reasons which includes exclusivity of games, licenses and their own services of digital distribution, the mere concept of OnLive is competence for them, therefore a partnership is highly unlikely, besides it goes against the concept of OnLive services(not relaying in physical copy and the device).

Not sure but it wont happen, or it will happen but only to titles from third party publishers.

 

[Robin]

tl;dr: If you're lucky, the PC version of the game you are streaming with OnLive will match the PS360 port of the same game in visual quality. More likely, however it will look worse overall rather than better.

I find it quite surprising if thats the level of quality OnLive offers because I thought the whole point was that you could get future proof gaming always running with the best visuals available (obviously taking into account network connections).

I'm quite sure though that OnLive visuals will eventually exceed consoles as they continues to age yet the streamed services hardware and connections will continue to improve so in the end it will offer better graphics, its just a matter of time.

I could see Sony and MS doing their own clone of OnLive though if they want to keep it all in house. I seem to remember Sony registering a patent for something similar a while back. It all comes down to how well OnLive takes off and it might end up being something that they can't afford to not have integrated.

Robin.