OnLive Aims to Replace Game Consoles
Imagine never upgrading your hardware again.
If you're a console gamer playing on your HDTV, that means avoiding shelling out $500 to play next generation titles. If you're a PC gamer, it means opting out of the endless cycle of new CPUs, motherboards, and graphics cards. It also means you can play your favorite game on just about any platform—even laptops or netbooks. This even includes games famous for being resource hogs, like the Crysis series.
At least, that's dream of Steve Perlman and Mike McGarvey of OnLive.
OnLive is a new gaming service, slated to launch towards the end of 2009. The core idea of OnLive is to make all modern games playable on any system. The actual heavy lifting of rendering, AI, and other gameplay is handled by big iron servers, which are loaded with multiple CPUs and high-end graphics chips (GPUs).
