Gaming Warner Bros. backs new game console

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SAN DIEGO -- Warner Bros. is among the financial backers of a new gaming venture, OnLive, that promises to leverage cloud computing and broadband connectivity to provide high-end play of the latest video games on PC, Mac or TV.

To be unveiled Tuesday at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, OnLive is the brainchild of Steve Perlman, who founded WebTV a more than a decade ago.

Perlman described OnLive as a revolutionary, on-demand game platform that can deliver the latest and most advanced games on any TV via a sleek, inexpensive MicroConsole or on almost any PC or Mac. "You can have instant access to games," he said in an interview. "You just click on it and it goes."

Unlike current consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360 -- or even the PC -- OnLive will have all the graphics, assets and game play taking place on its servers and then streamed in real-time using a special interactive compression technology that took seven years to develop.

 
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Oh my god!! How do you play the games? Remote control?
 

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Its the same concept as remoting into another computer. They have just improved the compression so they can get all the gameplay off there box and they just have to read the controller ports and stream the data. A brilliant concept actually as I bet that actual console can be made cheap and even given away to support the pay per play type model.
 

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Now I see what you mean, a game that lets you download, and save it into the internal hard drive of the seventh console, and then you play it directly from it by utilizing the wireless controllers.

I bet the hard drive minimum requirements is around 160 GBs.
 

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I bet it does not even have a hard drive. They said in the article if you read it that the game will be played on the actual service server, the full info will be passed back to the box which just has to send the controller information and display the graphics and sound.
 

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It streams, so you won't need so much data stock.

Anyway, this seems like a good idea, since you can make one of the cheapest consoles using this technique.

The only bad thing about this is that, if you use the internet in order to play this, you'll have stupid latency for most people. You'll also have problems with broadband providers who limit the maximum bandwidth.

If this has some kind of its own connection, no doubt is it, that they'll charge us for using it.
 

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I do hope the servers use an additional high-voltage wind generator to run.
 
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