GAMING – More News from the Future: OnLive Coming to 360 and PS3?

By R. Bryant Francis

Oh hell yes! OnLive’s Joe Benteley today, while speaking with Computerandvideogames.com confirmed that they’re in talks to get OnLive on the PS3 and Xbox 360. While nothing’s official yet, this could open up a whole new world of gaming, and a new way to think about who owns the game, and where you can play the game.

For those not in the know, OnLive is a video-game streaming service that you can access with your P.C or Tablet computer right now. It’s a subscription service, so it ain’t free, but it means your computer from 2001, so long as it has a high-speed internet connection and can basically play a Youtube video, can play high-powered games like Borderlands or Crysis.

The system works by streaming the video of your play session to your computer, so the actual computing for the game is being handled by a computer somewhere far, far away. Instead of putting a CD in your computer (which, hell, thanks to Valve, I haven’t done in ages), you play the game over the internet.

Think about what that could mean at its furthest extension: You could logically play Halo on a PS3. Play The Legend of Zelda on your PC. It doesn’t matter, because the computing’s all going on another device. While that’ll probably never happen, there’s still legitimate talk of it coming to consoles…the age of exclusive content wears down even further!

Yeah Right.

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