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I've a magazine back from .. 2000? with a mini...

2009-09-04T10:05:48.827-07:00

I've a magazine back from .. 2000? with a mini-article about the Phantom. Looked similar to an XBOX, if I recall correctly.

I don't need to hear a single thing about onlive t...

2009-03-27T13:57:00.000-07:00

I don't need to hear a single thing about onlive to instantly hate it.

Firstly: You'll need broadband for it. Thats their first epic fail. The people they wanna con into buying this *dont know how to get it or cant afford it*.

Second: Who, in their right mind, wants to play all their single player games on an online console...? If the connection dies you're fucked.

Thirdly: Who in their right mind buys a console to play pc game son when they can simply buy a pc and do a billion more things with it? Most of them involving much enjoyed porn.

Thats just off the top of my head..

Personally, I have a hard time believing it'll wor...

2009-03-27T11:18:00.000-07:00

Personally, I have a hard time believing it'll work. I get enough lag with online games where I send out control info and control info is all I get back. Now they expect me to believe that it'll work just fine when I send out control info and they send back real-time high def video of the game I'm playing?

I mean, yeah, it'll scale the graphics down to 480p if the connection's too slow so they don't have to send as much data, but still, this is supposedly realtime - you push the button, it goes to their server, their server renders the video and sends it back to your computer or TV for you to view.

They expect me to believe that the lag will be negligible if the controller input travels across the internet out to some server located who-knows-where?

Am I just thinking too much about this?

Hmmm. A console with streaming online porn. I'm su...

2009-03-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

Hmmm. A console with streaming online porn. I'm sure there's a business model, like Wii channels. The bigger issue is, how many Nintendo execs would I have to mutilate to make that reality?

Oh, and one more thing:

Please

be

a

bit

more

selective

with

the

newlines.

Pretty please?

"closed" beta is always the last stage before the ...

2009-03-27T03:11:00.000-07:00

"closed" beta is always the last stage before the whole bunrning-thingy kicks in.

*grabs some cookies and makes himself comfortable for the burning*

BRING IT ON GUYS!

While I haven't really heard of OnLive before, and...

2009-03-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

While I haven't really heard of OnLive before, and I really only heard about the Phantom after the fact, I have two things to say about them.

1. As far as I can tell, OnLive is just a distribution service, not an actual console. There will BE a console, for people who don't have computers (insert laughter here), but the console isn't required or even really a main highlight.

The Phantom was slated to be a video game console that worked entirely through digital distribution. This was in 2002. As I recall, digital distribution as a whole hadn't really taken off to the degree it has today by that point. On top of that, why base a game console entirely around that rather than use the digital distribution platform to deliver PC games? It's like if Valve tried to make a console to play games over Steam. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

2. The Phantom became easy to ridicule as time went by with no results. Everyone makes fun of vaporware, even Duke Nukem Forever is still entertaining to poke fun at now and then. If the same thing happens to OnLive - lots of time going by, no tangible results - then definitely expect the amount of ridicule to take a steep rise.

OnLive is in closed beta at least. Did the Phantom ever even GET that far? (O_o)

I gotta agree with you [GM]Dave, I've yet to hear ...

2009-03-26T17:16:00.000-07:00

I gotta agree with you [GM]Dave, I've yet to hear a single bad thing about OnLive, other then the fact that some people think it will make DRM look like a good thing