Plenty of reasons but here's one. Nintendo. They've been making money off of gaming hardware for years, even the GameCube. They aren't going to junk their business model because everyone but them is struggling with it.
Long term things will change but not by 2012 and it's far too early for a service like OnLive to become a sustainable reality. I'm disappointed in the gaming media this week for not finding some proper networking experts to talk to and assessing how this would scale out to consumer broadband connections. Demos on a LAN, potentially a Gigabit one simply don't cut it. Not to mention other issues even if you could guarentee the 5Mbit a second needed for 720p they are touting.
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This generation will definitely be longer.
It won't be the "last" generation of consoles.
Plenty of reasons but here's one. Nintendo. They've been making money off of gaming hardware for years, even the GameCube. They aren't going to junk their business model because everyone but them is struggling with it.
Long term things will change but not by 2012 and it's far too early for a service like OnLive to become a sustainable reality. I'm disappointed in the gaming media this week for not finding some proper networking experts to talk to and assessing how this would scale out to consumer broadband connections. Demos on a LAN, potentially a Gigabit one simply don't cut it. Not to mention other issues even if you could guarentee the 5Mbit a second needed for 720p they are touting.