The current expensive consoles like PlayStation, Xbox, Wii and others could be simply replace by OnLive. OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. Actually, it is like the films that you watch in the net by streaming but for video games. You will have an account to OnLive that will allow your access to their server. From the server you will be able to play to any game stored. No more consoles at home, no more CD's games and, thanks god, no more old nintendo's cartridges!!! All replaced by a little device of 10$ and a monthly subscribtion fee (10$).
There are no downloads, it's streaming gaming. OnLive promises to stream games live, over the Internet, with no lag. Let me say that again: No lag. How are they able to assure that level of flux data without lag? The inventor, Steve Perlman, (the guy who created WebTV and sold it for a cool $500 million to Microsoft) assure that they have developped, through 7 years, a system of data compression that makes this technology possible!
If true, OnLive could be the holy grail of gaming. It lets publishers give the finger to GameStop and other retailers, and distribute their games directly to consumers. It would eliminate piracy. And it makes the console war a moot point.
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This is cloud computing applied to gaming. I do not know if it will have real success, but anyway it seems clear that the future of software is services, services, services
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