Thanks to Google, the Internet has played an important role in our lives as gamers. In fact, it’s transformed basically every aspect from how we play our games, including how we obtain them.
OnLive is a service that was announced roughly a year ago and quickly disappeared out of the headlines in all this Project-Natal-is-the-future hype. For those who need a brain-refresh, OnLive is an online service that is accessed through your PC or a little black box that is plugged into your TV. Games that you purchase through the service are supposedly then streamed at 60 frames a second, in HD nogal. OnLive is destined to do gaming what Google’s done to the Internet. Complete domination.
The benefits are awesome: Hardware as it currently stands will be a thing of the past as all rendering will be done on OnLive servers, no hard drive space will be required to store the games and titles will never run out of stock.
The question as to whether this will be the future boils down to money. If this is an easier way for corporates to cash-in, then this will be the future. It will force funding into Internet infrastructure, even in 3rd world countries, reduce global warming by cutting out shipping units and eventually bring forth world peace.
I’m just a little concerned that Google will buy the technology over and we’ll end up as robot slaves, worshipping the Almighty Google god. They’ll use OnLive* combined with Project Natal** to read our minds***. You see that Milo vid? Well, the chick is Google and we’ll be Milo.
Do you know why we’ll let them do it? Just imagine never having to buy a console. Ever again.
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Grant Hinds is the presenter for GameState, South Africa, if not the world’s, greatest online TV Show. That includes that video with the chimp drinking it’s piss.
