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ONLIVE MIGHT BRING AN END TO CONSOLE BASED GAMING

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A new online video game distribution network ,Onlive to be launched at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, aims to let players stream on-demand games at the highest quality level ,hopes to revolutionise the way people play games and re-write the economics of the industry.The service could signal the end for Playstation, Xbox, and the Wii.

According to Onlive founder Steve Perlman,"No high-end hardware, no upgrades, no endless downloads, no discs, no recalls, no obsolescence. With OnLive, your video game experience is always state-of-the-art".He also added"OnLive is the most powerful game system in the world".

Onlive boasts of having a data compression technology that allows games to be powered on remote servers rather than on game consoles.Users download games instantly through the OnLive MicroConsole or straight onto a PC or Mac. The MicroConsole also connects to any TV. All that is required is a high speed connection.

Gamers will be able to select from an on-demand catalogue of video titles stored on these data servers.Dont worry,you can play all the latest games(all high end games at the highest resolution) and not just the cheap online games.To support Onlive's cause,Gaming giants like Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, THQ and Atari Interactive have all signed up with onlive,giving it much credibility and some serious sleepless nihts for console giants like Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo.



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