It will cost $99 and comes with a wireless controller, game voucher and a long HDMI cable. It lets you play PC titles via your television without the PC!
Of course you do need a good bicep-flexing Internet connection as that little MicroConsole will be flooding your bandwidth with videogame goodness. Games with OnLive are available to buy outright or rent for 3 to 5 days at a time.
”We have over 100 games in the pipeline,” said OnLive boss Steve Perlman. Publishers ”legitimately have reasons to be sceptical, but what is happening now is they’re saying, ‘Wow, this isn’t just an adjunct platform,’ this is something they’re going to design to.”
OnLive works by having super-speed servers do all the mathematical crunches on the videogames for you, meaning you need only the MicroConsole for hardware. It eliminates the need to have a super PC rig to play the latest GPU-slurping games.
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