OnLive - konec konzol in menjav računalnika?

Ni samo net issue. Zaenkrat predvsem HW in poraba energije. V bistvu rabiš totalne high-end kište, za igrat to, kar oglašujejo. Kaj manj zahtevnega je pa druga scena.

He’s confusing compression latency (1ms) with frame time. The frame time is NOT 1ms (which would imply 1000 fps). It’s 16.7ms (which implies 60fps). Just as linear video compression time is much HIGHER latency than one frame time (e.g. 500ms latency does NOT imply a 2fps frame rate), interactive video compression is much LOWER latency that one frame time.

Regarding server costs, he does not understand server economics. It doesn’t matter how many subscribers you have per server. It matters how much revenue you earn per server. Most web services are ad-supported and CPM-based and need to have thousands (if not millions) of users per server over the course of a month in order to pay for the server because they earn a tiny fraction of a cent per user.

OnLive servers earn many dollars per user each month (many orders of magnitude more than a CPM-based business), and when one user is offline, another user is online, so even a server that is only serving one user at a time (e.g. for Crysis), is reused by many users each month. The useful life of a server is probably around 3 years. so, if you amortize the cost of a server over 36 months, you quickly realize that on a monthly basis, the cost per server is very low. And lastly, the cost of a server is much less than a home gamer PC: we don’t have the case, disk drive, optical drive, etc. And we don’t have to worry about retail markup, customer service, etc. Long story short, the revenue per server per month is much higher than the cost of the server. It makes OnLive a very healthy business.

So, again, it doesn’t matter how much a server costs. It matters how much the server earns relative to its cost. And, OnLive’s servers are far more profitable than servers used in CPM-based businesses.

But, above all, it should be patently clear to anyone who knows the video game business that there is NO WAY that top-tier game publishers would support us with the latest top-tier games unless they had put OnLive’s technology through the ringer. It took years…literally…working with EACH of these publishers where they have verified there are no smoke and mirrors, the tech works in a normal home, the business model is viable, and the quality of the game play is as good or better than a PC or console.

And lastly, the cost of a server is much less than a home gamer PC: we don’t have the case, disk drive, optical drive, etc.

Berserker je 21. jun 2011 ob 13:58 izjavil:

No ja potem mi na vasi ( in nikomur za hrbtom) tako ali tako ne bomo imeli dobene možnosti. Če je to future gaming smo res naj***** . Optike pa tako ali tako nikoli ne bo.