[citation][nom]lasaldude[/nom]Have you even used On-live yet? Because I have no issues and it's great. Maybe upgrade your connection or set bandwidth settings for certain ports on you router. Onlive is the future, It's crazy fast and easy to use. No more stupid long loading screens and discs to lose and scratch![/citation]
Got a 100/100 mbit connection, still runs poorly compared to anything running on my computers locally. Likely you play chess or other turn based games and are satisfied! *Many* people aren't satisfied because of the latency's involved that are unavoidable.
First you stream video.
That have to be rendered on server, compressed on server with lost quality AND adds latency and finally it have to be sent and decompressed on your side (more latency) thats just the video stream alone!
Controls in multi player games.
You send the ingame commands like movement ect to the onlive servers who then sends it to the game server that processes it sends the new userstate back to the onlive servers wich processes it and renders the next frame (se video above). Whats most amusig is that the onlive servers games report the latency from the onlive to the game server not the actual latency for the user (game-onlive-server-onlive-extra compressions-decompression latency-gamer).
So you say that a computer to server and back is not faster than the above? Sorry I have to say this but some loud people seriously need education before speaking up about matters they don't fully grasp!
Sure onlive could be a possible future and has its uses even today when you run on a poor mans gaming computer but don't for a second try to convince the less educated people that its the best option today because its simply just a marketing statement based on the above - weak computer with a high bandwidth connection and most peeps that can afford the better connections sure as hell can afford a good computer voiding the main targets for the onlive.
I think download content is the future like steam! Even publishers have even spoke up against onlive and they use to be cautious. Main reason - it don't allow them to let their players experience their games as they want and that should tell just about any uneducated where their trust lies!