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Onlive Gaming Console

What will they think of next? The newest gaming console being thrust into the market is that of WebTV founder and CEO of Edios wet dream. The system will be an on demand gaming console with 16 games already posed for the market from the biggest manufactures in the industry today. The system will use a computer coupled to a broadband internet connection to stream games directly from the Onlive™ server. To me this all sounds great for those gamers who want a variety without having to keep an enormous collection on a rack. The down side i see being played out here is the makers charging a premium in subscriptions such as that of XBOX360 and PS3 online cards. Something about owning your own games and being able to play them at a one time cost without timeframes is really what gaming is all about. Just look for monthly fees to be attached to this system.  Keep the cons here in perspective, you still would be required to use a computer seperate from this unit to connect and act as a server for the overall system. To me it just sounds so much more expensive than to buy one of its competitors. HD graphics sound good, but if your internet connection goes down because of a ship running aground over the fiber optics laid in the ocean then you could spend weeks out of the game.