Move aside OnLive, Microsoft is here - XBL Game Streaming Service.

http://www.tested.com/news/rumor-microsoft-launching-xbox-live-game-streaming-service/2981/

The rumor calls for an Xbox Live universal gaming portal for PC, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox, where titles would be delivered simultaneously across all three platforms. Supposedly, gamers could buy a game once and play it on multiple platforms witha streaming service akin to OnLive.

Windows 8 is suppose to feature XBL so this may be true. What do you think?

sounds like a gimmick to me

Possible,but still rumor for now.

I'm actually suprised pc already doesn't have some kind of live feature, since they already have a phone version for mini games

Again, that sounds like a fantastic idea to me.

If this is true (and will support old titles), I will laugh at all the people who bought an Xbox 360 for the games.

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

Our onlive salesman will go into total rage about this.alexside1

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

Ravensmash

IF true its nice to know I wouldnt even have to consider buying a MS console ever again

[QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaShadowDeathX

ONLIVE gets to much hate here. But i dont think what ms is doing will be like onlive just yet.

i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaLP4EVA2005

Why would you laugh at lems?

I don't understand the SW mentality.

You're either backing MS, Sony or Nintendo right? And MS supports multiple platforms. So naturally if you're backing MS you'd want them to do well. The hardware is irrelevant to supporting the company itself. :|

they will have a ways to go to best onlive.

i just checked it out again after a long time and it's kinda a sweet deal now if you get the playpass or whatever they call it.

also the games run way better than they used to.

i'm thinking i messed up when i missed my chance to get a free micro console with a game.

if they ever bring that back i may subscribe.

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"][QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaianuilliam

[QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaNeonNinja

Why would you laugh at lems?

I don't understand the SW mentality.

You're either backing MS, Sony or Nintendo right? And MS supports multiple platforms. So naturally if you're backing MS you'd want them to do well. The hardware is irrelevant to supporting the company itself. :|

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[QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaSakusEnvoy

Why would you laugh at lems?

I don't understand the SW mentality.

You're either backing MS, Sony or Nintendo right? And MS supports multiple platforms. So naturally if you're backing MS you'd want them to do well. The hardware is irrelevant to supporting the company itself. :|

It doesn't make sense to me.

I figured a fanboy would follow whatever their company of choice does. At the end of the day the system is nothing more than a gateway to an experience. If it's MS's decision to try and bridge the gaps between console, PC and mobile gaming I don't see how that's bad for Lemmings. If anything it gives them more options on how to play. Much like Kojima's new plan to have your PS3 and Vita progress be essentially the same. It's just a way to open up new avenues of play for the fanbase.

i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaLP4EVA2005

i know right? thats the first thing I thought when I read this a few days ago.

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

Ravensmash

no it wont. Video games will continue to increase in graphical fidelity streaming gaming doesn't even work right now the amount of compression and sheer down grade in visuals to push that content through the internet we have now while keeping input lag down to a minimum and they haven't even managed that I've tried onlive off and on many times and when it first came out input lag was so atrocious at a 25mbps and 4mbps up line that it was literally push a button and the action on screen would responde near a half second later and they've still yet to improve upon it that much.

graphical fidelity will increase causing for more downgrades in the graphics we see dispalyed on our screen from streaming just to keep up with the input lag these games will cause it will never be a viable option unless gaming stays static with its graphics then as internet speed increases it will actually be able to keep up but they will never get rid of the input lag fully it will always slower then a local setup would be when it comes to input lag.

As well dont even compare Streaming gaming to Digital distribution they are 2 completely different concepts one is a method of receiving content another is a method of playing content online Digtial distribution doesn't have near the hinderances that Streaming gaming does.

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

[QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaNeonNinja

Why would you laugh at lems?

I don't understand the SW mentality.

You're either backing MS, Sony or Nintendo right? And MS supports multiple platforms. So naturally if you're backing MS you'd want them to do well. The hardware is irrelevant to supporting the company itself. :|

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

savagetwinkie

Once this is confirmed, I will sell my 360 on Ebay the same day. Why in the hell would I own a 360 if I could play the occasional "must-own" exclusive (which is pretty much only the Gears of War games) on my laptop?

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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"] Now we are going to get games Exclusive to Services..SakusEnvoy

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

Yes! Competition in the clouds!

I doubt it. If anyone has the money to make cloud gaming decent its microsoft

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

todd2r

Any of these companies would LOVE to just give you a box with a name on it and make you pay $99/month to stream games. MS may be the first to achieve this.

Well wouldn't that be viable only for developers who agree to release so (thinking only first party right now)?

And what costs will there be associated with this?

Will this be forced on Windows 8 in order to play games?

great idea and Im sure it will be implemented awesomely... Just Kinect games wont be able to be played. ForzaGearsFace

[QUOTE="ForzaGearsFace"]great idea and Im sure it will be implemented awesomely... Just Kinect games wont be able to be played. Nonstop-Madness

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

savagetwinkie

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

[QUOTE="savagetwinkie"][QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

I knew OnLive was going to get screwed over once bigger companies came into play. Goodbye OnLive, it was nice knowing you... well not really. I wonder how Rikusaki is taking this news.

I'll wait tell I hear something official since this is just rumor

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Why would you laugh at lems?

I don't understand the SW mentality.

You're either backing MS, Sony or Nintendo right? And MS supports multiple platforms. So naturally if you're backing MS you'd want them to do well. The hardware is irrelevant to supporting the company itself. :|

NeonNinja

Um, you know your example is dumb, right?

Comparing the combined sales of three different platforms to one is really stupid.

But opening up your games to work on every platform you as a publisher support is a positive.

And WTF is an SDF?

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"][QUOTE="LP4EVA2005"]i hope its true so i can laugh at at lems... bye bye exclusives muahahahaianuilliam

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

Ravensmash

There are a few key differences between DD and streaming games. First of all, on a hardware level, a DD server is simpler and less expensive. Secondly streaming necessarily requires compression and there is inevitably input lag. The further you are from the server and the more nodes you go through the worse the lag. Thirdly, DD only requires a persistent Internet connection for the duration of the download whilst streaming requires a persistent Internet connection at all times. Pray that your buddy doesn't decide to download a torrent or watch netflix!

The idea is poor. The role of the cloud in gaming will probably be limited to saving on a remove server and stuff like that.

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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"] Now we are going to get games Exclusive to Services..ShadowDeathX

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

WilliamRLBaker

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

lhughey

movies =/= video games

The technical challenges of doing the same with games are far greater than that of streaming video.

Um, no.

Onlive and "buy once, play multiplatform" are not the same thing. As far as I know, Microsoft is not getting into the "streaming games" business (because it's a moronic way to distribute software).

Microsoft wants to unify the purchasing experience in Windows 8, and this has a lot more to do with video than games. Right now, if you buy a movie on your XBOX 360 it's "stuck" there. You can't watch it on your PC or iPad. MS wants to change this by allowing content purchased on the 360 or Windows PC to be playable on any "registered" device (you get up to 5).

This will affect games, in theory, by allowing you to purchase a game on XBOX Live Arcade and then play it on the XBOX 360, Windows Phone 7, and Windows PC, assuming you had all 3. In theory, if you bought the online version of a "packaged" XBOX 360 game you would also get an online copy of the PC version.

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its stupid streaming will never be a viable option.

lhughey