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BBC NEWS said:A new online video game distribution network hopes to revolutionise the way people play games and re-write the economics of the industry. OnLive, to be launched at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, aims to let players stream on-demand games at the highest quality level. The service could signal the end for Playstation, Xbox, and the Wii.
"OnLive is the most powerful game system in the world," said company founder Steve Perlman. "No high-end hardware, no upgrades, no endless downloads, no discs, no recalls, no obsolescence. With OnLive, your video game experience is always state-of-the-art," he declared.
Mr Perlman said that the company has developed a data compression technology that allows games to be powered on remote servers rather than on game consoles. Users download games instantly through the OnLive MicroConsole or straight onto a PC or Mac. The MicroConsole also connects to any TV. All that is required is a high speed connection.
Kotaku.com said:We were a little suspicious of OnLive's capability to deliver perceptually lag-free on-demand games. But then we played a hasty online game of Crysis Wars on the service and became a little less suspicious. It seemed to work.
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