How Did I Miss This About Onlive?

I am not sure how I missed this announcement, but to me this is huge.  I saw some random tweet today mention it, and I thought it was breaking news.  After researching I see Onlive announced it way back in June.  Why has no one even been talking about it?

What is Onlive doing that is so amazing?  They are implementing tablets into gaming similar to the Wii:U controllers.  This is going to be bigger than the Wii:U in my opinion.  Why buy a new gaming system when you already own a tablet?

I think Onlive is going to be the gaming of the future.  If companies start using this technology, and letting you play on your PC, or HDTV along with using your tablet as a controller it is going to be simply amazing. If I was Nintendo I would be a little nervous.  The Wii:U probably won't even come out until 2012, and by than this new tablet controller could already own the marketshare.

If regular PC developers take, and run with this I see it exploding.  With the Amazon Fire making tablets affordable everyone will be able to enjoy this new technology of gaming.  I can't wait to see what kind of games companies develop in this next year using this.

What do you think about this breakthrough?  Is this what keeps PC Gaming alive, and thriving?

Is Onlive really a No-Brainer?

Is Onlive really a No-Brainer?  I never even heard of it until PAX.  I thought it was something to do with the Xbox 360 even when I saw it at PAX.  It wasn't until the other day I realized it was cloud gaming.  No discs, no downloads.  You just click, and play.

It seems perfect to me.  Access to 80+ games for $10 a month.  That is less than a MMO subscription.  I can imagine playing so many games that I would probably not buy normally.  You figure 80 games times 50 bucks is $4k.  With Onlive it would just be a little over $100 a year to play.

Can there really be a downside to Onlive?  I can't really think of any.  Why buy games for fifty bucks, and finish them in twenty hours, and never play them again?  It is like renting games, and I don't understand why everyone isn't doing it.

It also solves the problem of buying a game, and hating it five minutes after you start playing it.  I don't know how many times I have thrown money out the window like that.  This makes it easy to test drive every game, and if you don't like it there are 79 others you may like.

Normally when buying a new game it means you either have to upgrade your hard drive, or uninstalling an older game to make space.  Of course the next time you want to play you have to find the discs, product keys, and go through the whole process of installing again.

Onlive is definitely a No-Brainer for me.  How about you?