Industry NewsOn live in public betaOn Live Blog - September 3, 2009
Submitted by welshbloke (60)
at 8:04AM PST on September 3, 2009
I’m very excited to say that we are now opening the OnLive Beta to outside gamers who signed up on our website. It’s not too late to sign up if you haven’t already. We are very much looking forward to hearing from gamers all about their experience with the OnLive Service.
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Video:
In the Video market for example you cannot resell a purchased movie. Rental copies are purchased seperately and at greater cost and these can be sold on.
Digital:
I think that retail offers one form of content with benefits such as physical media, digital offers others which might be cloud based such as the Onlive solution. They offer two different benefits but I do not see us always requiring physical copies as we become more accustomed cloud based solutions.
Cars in the US:
I think the fact that fuel is so cheap and the country so large is probably the reason for high car ownership and a thriving second hand market. Also these items are very high value and cannot easily be scaled down to a video game purchase.