Wednesday, March 25, 2009

OnLive Demos Streaming Games: Yes, That's Crysis on Integrated Graphics [Gaming]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/wRe97unSNyY/onlive-demos-streaming-games-yes-thats-crysis-on-integrated-graphics

I'll grant that OnLive—the streaming game service that its makers claim will bring any game to virtually any PC or TV—borders on implausible, but you gotta beliiieevve! For the haters, here's a demo video.

Plenty is discussed here, and it's worth watching all the way through if you were at all intrigued by yesterday's announcement. The boner moment: around 15:00, when a lowly Dell Studio 15 plays Crysis without even flinching. The presenters discussed latency and did their best to demonstrate that OnLive does provide the same experience as a proper gaming machine, but until the service rolls out it'll be impossible to tell if this is true. OnLive will live or die on a few milliseconds. [Gamespot]