gametaroo! writes:
There’s no better way to create awareness of a new system than getting it into people’s homes and letting them evangelise about their (hopefully positive!) experiences. With this no doubt in mind, fledgling cloud-gaming service OnLive gave away thousands of systems (MicroConsoles and controllers) at London’s Eurogamer Expo 2011, of which I was one lucky recipient. Obviously I was eager to try the service out at the first possible opportunity, but two fairly major hurdles made me realise that I might not be in a position to take regular flights up into the cloud…
DS:
Sometimes life just isn't fair. Vincent Van Gogh went completely unappreciated during his lifetime despite his obvious genius; Jesus - a man who could turn water into wine, don't forget - was nailed to a cross and left for dead; while Steve Brookstein has only ever had one number one single, despite winning the very first series of The X Factor. Now what's that about?
the dreamcast was not amazing:
-It's graphics were in between ps1 and ps2
-the controller felt so narrow and skinny
-no dvd drive
I don't know why people act like it was anything more than another overrated undersold flop of a console. My friend had one because "next gen" and I told him I'm just waiting for PS2.
He always talked about graphics, non stop. Of course when I played it did look better than anything I've seen before, but that was it. The games were ok at best. I didn't like NFL 2K's control scheme compared to Madden's.
Even as a kid I predicted this console would die off in 2 years, well what happened...
Failure is always relative. How many sales makes something successful? "If your not first, your last", or in this case, you failed. I'll admit, I've never heard of a couple of these.
GameCube made the most profit in its generation. I don't consider that console a flop.
I consider a flop to be a product that has a negative impact financially for a company.
OnLive announced that they would be shutting down their streaming service for good at the end of this month, which has unsurprisingly upset some of the streaming service’s supporters. While some took to griping on forums, OnLive user Larry Gadea decided to take action.
OnLive has been acquired by Sony and will shut down all services on April 30th, 2015. Vault of the Gameverse says Goodbye & Thank You.
I think using new technology for the sake of using new technology is rather dumb really. If you have a console stick with a console. The "ONLY" advantage OnLive gives you is instant gaming from you home, but compared to all the disadvantages that system has I have to ask myself what are these people thinking that use this rather bad service.
And no I'm not completely referring to the graphics when streaming. All the disadvantages make this service bad.
Sorry OnLive, I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid just yet!!!
Can't wait until this is deemed a flop and we don't have to see this stuff every day. I'll be in my grave before I stream anything instead of having an actual game console.