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Onlive Microconsole

Onlive Microconsole - We had a chance to snag an early copy of the OnLive MicroConsole. The device basically brings the streaming video game service to living rooms. The one caveat is that you need a pretty fast Internet connection. It has to be at least 5MB per second download speed for it to work. Unfortunately, I don’t have a service that fast at home, so I turned to a few friends and asked them to try it out at work. (They have a ridiculously blazing fast Internet connection.) Here’s what they said:

“There’s no problem with the technology. It works as advertised. The only problem I see is when you move the camera around. There’s frame rate issues,” my housemate John said. “It doesn’t run as fast as it would locally.” He also mentioned that there’s an input lag. It was noticeable on NBA 2K11 despite the nice graphics.

Overall, they said they were impressed it worked because streaming video games is hard to do logistically. One of them said he wouldn’t play fighting games on there though. He said he didn’t have an issue with the input as much as the frame rate. He’s a guy who needs all his games to run at 60 frames per second.

As for other snafus, they took issues with the pricing. They said some games are more expensive than retail copies. More specifically, there are games on the service that cost $40 but could easily be found on Amazon at a better price. But what they really wished for was more PC-centric games. “What they need to do is get PC games like Civ 5 and bring it over,” one said. They need something other than console ports. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing that either. A game like The Sims 3 would work perfectly via OnLive.

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