OnLive Coming to the UK
OnLive, the groundbreaking streaming games service has announced today via its company blog, an official partnership with BT to bring the service to the UK.
With demand for the US beta being overwhelming, and a large number of European users trying to sign up, OnLive have responded with the news we have all been waiting for.
Secretly in testing since 2009, OnLive have been running a test setup out of a datecentre in Wales, to determine if the European infrastructure could deliver the service to the quality required, and OnLive have reports the results were nothing short of awesome.
In a partnership deal with BT, they will be offering exclusive bundle rights to supply OnLive with BT broadband packages, and they will be working with BT to ensure quality and performance over their network. They have also commented that OnLive will still be available to other networks, so dont worry if your not a BT user :)
No dates for OnLive in the UK have been set yet, the company want to focus fully on the US launch first, but with that just around the corner, I would expect more news in the next couple of months, and I am sure we will see a big piece of OnLive at E3 in a few weeks time.
You can read the official blog post here.
COMMENTS
icaruschips - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
I still think this sounds like toss. I like to own my games in case my net goes down - at least that way I can still play them - not rent them then have a constant worry about whether or not my net is running well enough (or at all) to stream the games properly.
Angelfromabove - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
This isnt actually something ive heard of before but it seems like a good idea, on demand gaming whenever you want it really. Will be keeping an eye on this.
G_Silberrad-1468851493 - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
As awesome as this sounds, I can't help but wonder if the UK's internet infrastructure is really up to this. Iirc there's still a large amount of copper cable serving as backbone around the UK; and what about those places which aren't close to an exchange? Plus, where I go to uni, the broadband speeds are woefully inadequate, but BT/Virgin refuse to upgrade the lines, citing "Oversubscription". tl;dr - How will the UK's infrastructure cope with massive games streaming when it can barely handle iPlayer at times :u02
Kaostic - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
Basically, it won't. It's a fantastic concept, I love it, but it will only really work in places like Korea where the standard is 200MBPS.
Platinum - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
This is the future, but not now, I just think there will be to much lag, perhaps the average console monkey may not notice much but I know I and most people here will, hell we even notice lag on wireless mice and thats only got to transmit a signal a few feet :)
Flarty-1428100688 - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
I've been waiting to give this a blast. Infact i've held out upgrading my crumy 9600 till i could confirm if this was any good or not.
TGK - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
As awesome as this sounds, I can't help but wonder if the UK's internet infrastructure is really up to this. Iirc there's still a large amount of copper cable serving as backbone around the UK; and what about those places which aren't close to an exchange? Plus, where I go to uni, the broadband speeds are woefully inadequate, but BT/Virgin refuse to upgrade the lines, citing "Oversubscription". tl;dr - How will the UK's infrastructure cope with massive games streaming when it can barely handle iPlayer at times :u02
Oh hai Guy - I really should stop bringing people to the forums... I think this concept is good but like Guy says it's about where you are. I have a sh*te connection so how would that effect myself. I think that the next-gen consoles may implement a similar system on board the consoles to compete with something like this. My bet would be on this to shoot off if someone like Activision jumped on-board.Platinum - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
And there current partners are not enough? [url]http://www.onlive.com/partners.html[/url]
ExcessNeo - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
And there current partners are not enough? [url]http://www.onlive.com/partners.html[/url]
This. Plus Activision are worse than EA these days with new money for old rope.Flarty-1428100688 - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
in all reality though how many partners did steam have when it first launched? i can only remember sin being the first non steam game and the developers went bump after the first episode.
Betty_Swallocks - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
A nice idea but I wonder how much it's going to cost. They're currently charging $14.95 a month service charge which will probably translate to £14.95 over here. I've noticed that they very carefully explain that the 14.95 doesn't include games so how much will they be charging for those? Unless they're significantly cheaper than buying the game from the shops I can't see many people going for it. Would you use Steam if you had to pay 15 quid (or even dollars) a month for it?
cloud_ds-1468850540 - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
Not for the games I play often, not unless they can break the current laws of physics and get data to travel faster. I can see uses for other things though.
Flarty-1428100688 - 03:18pm, 18th July 2016
it depends what they offer with the service, it maybe worth it, may not be worth it, we just have to wait and find out.