DICE 2010: "Instant Gratification" Presentation

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Assuming some other company understands that a Cloud-Gaming system is a goldmine and spends the time to develop a lagless user experience that permits people to cross the device gap--ie; a 360 owner can jump onto a game and play in tandem with someone on their Droid Eris--as well as someone on a PC...

This could be VERY good for all of us.

Personally, if this system does work off of a 'the more time you spend playing the more you pay' it will fail--and piracy will remain unchanged despite the good intentions of OnLive.

HOWEVER if this system can become something more like the Android Market/Apple App Store, where it is ALL custom made content--thus facilitating less lag as well--but more importantly the media will be purchase based, low cost, and more indie game makers will be able to break into a VERY accessible market with FREE games allowing people to play out of sheer joy of gaming. Now, that's not saying that existing games couldn't be ported onto this new system--doing exactly what OnLive is right now...but not requiring a subscription fee, and then making sure that games stay inexpensive to purchase and thus play whenever you want them....I would develop a game for them--I'm sure almost ANYONE currently developing apps for Android/iPhone would jump at the shot to put their content into the hands on console gamers...and those developing for XBLA/PSN would jump at the shot to move their content seamlessly into the eager claws of mobile gamers.

Bottom-line:: They need to adapt their payment system to a cheap one time purchase of their hardware which is then attached to whatever device you're going to use, and then avoid a subscription system in favor of something more akin to existing marketing strategies out there.

I've already been working on a system identical to their Cloud-Gaming concept allowing cross-platform gaming, I've been developing a rather in-depth Fantasy Turn Based Strategy game that would run VERY well on a system like OnLive...if I get a shot I'll throw together a demo on their SDK and see if they'll pick it up....considering I'd probably get better exposure to my target demographic that way.