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OnLive To Be Built Into Vizio Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-going dept.

Gamasutra reports that cloud gaming service OnLive has reached an agreement with Vizio to integrate OnLive directly into the hardware manufacturer's TVs and Blu-ray players. "Vizio also announced that it will introduce ... tablets and smartphones based on Google's Android operating system that integrate the gaming service through its Via Plus ecosystem. OnLive is already publicly available for Apple's iPad, but that app is exclusively for spectating other people who are playing Onlive through PCs or the MicroConsole. Perlman said Onlive is coming to Vizio's mobile devices with playable games. ... Perlman also said that thanks to the open nature of the Android platform, manufacturers are creating more traditional game controllers for Android tablets. Some resemble a gamepad cut in half, where one half snaps on either side of the table screen, Perlman said. Certain Android tablets will also potentially work with Onlive's official controller, if the mobile device supports the appropriate RF interface."

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  1. more anti-consumer 'choice' in the market by epyT-R · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lets pay full retail price for the game + monthly onlive subscription so we can:
    1. get on a treadmill that gets harder and harder to get off each time a new game is purchased, because if a subscription is ever canceled all purchased games are gone forever.
    2. get heavily bandwidth constrained lossy 720p video streams.
    3. repeatedly peg bandwidth caps on our internet connections just by playing comparatively few hours of gaming a month.
    4. get laggy input
    5. lose control over yet another thing we're supposedly purchasing. (spare me the legal crap, games are presented as sales, not leases or rentals)

    perhaps the terms have changed since the last time I looked at this, but I doubt it.

    1. Re:more anti-consumer 'choice' in the market by brjndr · · Score: 3, Informative

      1. get on a treadmill that gets harder and harder to get off each time a new game is purchased, because if a subscription is ever canceled all purchased games are gone forever.

      [...]

      perhaps the terms have changed since the last time I looked at this, but I doubt it.

      They have changed, there is no subscription fee anymore.

  2. Onlive has changed my life! by mykos · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, for one, am glad to see that Onlive is going to be included in a tablet. In fact, it should be included in every device with a display!

    Before Onlive, I was throwing away over $50,000 per year on expensive consoles and PC upgrades, which is an average amount that any family can spend on gaming every year. Not only that, but I couldn't run games even on my netbook or portable devices like I can with Onlive!

    When I saw how low Onlive's prices were compared to the $50,000 a year it costs to maintain my consoles/PC upgrades, I knew right away that this was the service for me.

    Now for a low monthly fee*, I can get great Onlive service with zero latency whatsoever in all the latest games. It seems that Onlive has conquered the laws of physics!

    Be sure to pre-order the Onlive MicroConsole like I did. I'm very certain it will be a big improvement on what is already a great Onlive experience!

    *Games sold separately