OnLive, the cloud gaming service being developed by WebTV alum Steve Perlman, will be going public on June 17, 2010. The service will have somewhere between twelve and twenty five games at launch and will be available on the Mac and PC. Perlman has stated that the launch of the micro-console, which allows you to play games on your TV ala an Xbox or PlayStation, will be announced at a later date.
The service will debut at a price of $14.95 a month with game purchases and rentals costing an additional fee (though we don’t know if that fee will be less than or equal to a retail game).
OnLive is offering the first three months of its service for free for the first 25,000 people to sign up. Will OnLive be a game changer? I guess we will wait and see.
i really hope this fails badly. in my eyes it won’t do anything good for gaming.
….subscription fee…plus you have to buy/rent games…worst idea ever
100% agree