Onlive advantages and disadvantages

Advantages:

• Easily accessible to consumers, they can stream games any time and anywhere
• Unique selling point of on demand games means Onlive will receive huge revenues and profits
• Onlive might become monopoly in the games market - Good for their own business because of profits
• Provides new jobs for a new type of technical service
• Reduces retail game shops stock and storage costs
  

Disadvantages:

• Quality issues - could affect internet connection and servers could crash
• Broadband service consumers currently have might not be powerful enough - imposing additional costs
• Expensive service - $15 dollars a month service charge
• Could reduce revenues of retail shops selling games and cause job losses
• Could put other console manufacturers out of business