helldragon

This is truly an incredible service, and I am absolutely impressed that they managed to accomplish something like this.

However, it gets interesting when compared against Onlive. Onlive has already mentioned that they will offer demos for free. The biggest difference between these two technologies is that Onlive depends on the connection speed the end user has, while IA depends on how up to date your hardware is. IA also has the added ability that they can potentially plaster the videogame anywhere, and allow for people to experience it with ease.

The only problem with that is that once you get out of low end games like The Secret of Monkey Island, to more high end games like Assassin's Creed, the amount of people who can experience the game reduces dramatically, even if the game is embedded into several different places.

Now in the linked article, Lou mentions that they will be teaming up with Gaikai so that people will be able to play higher end games that are still embedded.... as long as they have a connection to Gaikai servers.

So it doesnt seem like IA is direct competition for Onlive but it does seem like IA can be a gateway for either Onlive or Gaikai. So im just wondering why do you think IA paired with Gaikai? Do you think it was a good move?