I'm sure that the future of gaming is close to that proposed by OnLive. I know they went bankrupt, I know it kind of wasn't a hit, but everyone who tested it was surprised how well it worked, even for games that rely on good latency. The main point was that the market isn't ready for it.
In a few years from now, 4G Internet will be almost everywhere and online only won't be a problem anymore. The technology that OnLive invented must have been really cool, because it somehow magically worked, and due to their financial problems they will eventually need to sell (or at least license) their patents. Then some bad ass company will turn that "stupid idea" into a "must have thing" and basically kill the console market. Applications are going into the cloud already, and it's just the beginning. There will always be some offline games, and there will always be some offline gamers, just like I will prefer a PC and old-fashioned PC game till the end.
All that of course has not much to do with XBox 720/PS 4, sorry. Was just reading over all the "online only" posts and reminded of discussions from 15-20 years ago. You know, when the Internet was basically not invented yet. No one saw it coming (except for Mark Weiser maybe) and no one here actually has even the slightest idea what the gaming industry might look like in another 15 years. Jesse Schell had some awesome thoughts about this in a TED talk, if you're interested. This of course would rather belong in a thread called XBox over 9000/PS 8.
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ModeratorIn a few years from now, 4G Internet will be almost everywhere and online only won't be a problem anymore. The technology that OnLive invented must have been really cool, because it somehow magically worked, and due to their financial problems they will eventually need to sell (or at least license) their patents. Then some bad ass company will turn that "stupid idea" into a "must have thing" and basically kill the console market. Applications are going into the cloud already, and it's just the beginning. There will always be some offline games, and there will always be some offline gamers, just like I will prefer a PC and old-fashioned PC game till the end.
All that of course has not much to do with XBox 720/PS 4, sorry. Was just reading over all the "online only" posts and reminded of discussions from 15-20 years ago. You know, when the Internet was basically not invented yet. No one saw it coming (except for Mark Weiser maybe) and no one here actually has even the slightest idea what the gaming industry might look like in another 15 years. Jesse Schell had some awesome thoughts about this in a TED talk, if you're interested. This of course would rather belong in a thread called XBox over 9000/PS 8.