Friday 7 May 2010

Pros and Cons of Onlive

Advantages
- Get the games instantly don't need to go to store to get the game or wait for it to be delivered.
- Don't need disc to play and takes up no memory space of your PC or Mac.
-Large variety of games from existing consoles as well as new ones.
-Cheaper to get games to gamers as they don't need to pay packaging and shipping costs.
-Don't need to get memory cards to save game data.

Disadvantages
-Will Reduce jobs meaning people will get made redundant as manufacturers and retailers will have no jobs in the games industry.
-New software so possibility for lots of problems.
-Lose owner ship of the game (ie the disc)
- you need to buy a new and expensive console to play the games on even tho most people probably have a console already i.e. xbox PS3 and Wii
-companies will spend money on creating competitive exclusive content for certain games.
-lots of people downloading a new game would crash the server

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