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Those who read Penny Arcade will recognize the above panel, which came out yesterday. If Gabe and Tycho are making a comic about it, then it must be at least somewhat legit.

I want this thing to work, I REALLY do, but I just don't believe in it. I've never had a gaming quality computer (hell, I use a mac!), but I've always wanted to play quality games on there. I think onLive might work for me, but not you. That is, I believe onLive can work well with slower games, such as RPG's, puzzle games, and tactics games, which are my kind. However, the typical gamer these days prefers the shooters, fighters, and racing games, which simply require much less latency than onLive can possibly deliver.

It's really not a matter of opinion, it's simple physics. Unless these guys can open a worm hole between their server locations and your home, as well as slow time everywhere outside their server location, the delay would simply be too great between your button press and the stream of the video coming back to you from their computing location. This being said, I'm sure I'll get one, and I'll probably enjoy it. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to use it at school, as we have an awful 1/2 Mbps cap on our internet (and onLive recommends at least 1.5 Mbps). Luckily, I rock around 20 Mbps at home, so that's where it will stay.

Btw, if you want to determine if your internet is fast enough, 1.5 Mbps = 187.5 MBps, which will get you low definition through onLive, and 5 Mbps = 625 MBps will get you high definition through the system.