"The implications are nothing short of world-changing."

Sometimes people get delusions of grandeur and they regret what they say later on. I think this is one of those time. It is nice that they got a pot of money, but it isn't like they solved world hunger and poverty.

Sorry for the second post, but I just had to add this link:

http://www.cracked.com/article_17412_6-world-changing-inventions-that-didnt-chan
ge-shit.html

Will OnLive be number 7?

Well it certainly has the potential to be "world-changing" for gamers, devs, publishers, and distributors.

Does anyone know how devs and publishers can get an sdk or something to start working on this platform?

Alec, try to have a sense of humor. Live a little.

steve roger @ 8:57
+1

Alec Shobin @ 9:09
+1

steve roger @ 9:15
-1

Alec, the internet does magical things when you search it...

http://www.onlive.com/partners/plug_into_onlive.html

goodluck,
James

I don't think it's world changing, since the world has already changed. Digital distribution (content and applications sold on demand) isn't some new technology just invented yesterday. It's been around for a decade, the only limiting factors was secure commerce and bandwidth. Now both are available and it's just a natural outcome of such.

Look at the iPhone, a simple mobile device has served over 2 billion downloads! Of which probably 30% are transacted sales, on demand digital e-commerce. Selling apps, server time, games, play time on a remote server, they are already being done to some extent. Onlive has a hook with their novel render scheme and I'm sure will find an audience (people who don't want to own a game rig or want to play from a browser etc..).

But world changing? I don't think so, this is just the natural evolution of technology.

-ddn

If it does change the world, let's hope it isn't for the worse.

@ddn d - This is much more than just digital distribution. With D2D, Steam, or the Iphone App store, you download the software and then run the application on your computer/Iphone. With OnLive, you purchase the rights to play a game and then play the game on their servers which stream the video feed to your box.

It is new brand new business plan and could have a very real impact on the future of PC/Console gaming. Whether or not it will be successful and 'World Changing' is still to be determined...

Exactly. I wonder how this will work for game developers.

Do developers get paid once for a site license?
Do they get payed based on the number of times a game is played? How long a game is played?

If OnLive becomes popular, these minor differences can make a huge difference on what type of games get made in the future.

OnLive: Successful? Quite possibly, quite likely even. World changing? Not hardly. This isn't a method to expand the maximum population the world can safely sustain or prevent nuclear annihilation, just another way for gamers to get hands on products and the developers to publish in hopefully easier, cheaper methods.

(They'll have my business if the servers work properly. Spending money on new video cards every year or two is the biggest ripoff the computing industry has ever seen.)