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Last week’s reveal of the upcoming OnLive streaming online gaming service remains a hot bed of discussions on the Internet. Most of that discussion revolves around opinions that the service won’t work as advertised by its founders. One of the companies who expressed doubts this week is Sony. In a chat with Edge Online its Playstation RP rep Patrick Seybold asked, “What will be sacrificed when you [put OnLive] into a real world environment where multiple devices are plugged into one broadband connection?” He also questioned what the final price would be for OnLive to the consumer.

Gamesindustry.biz also has comments about OnLive from outspoken Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli who states that they investigated if such a service could be launched a couple of years ago. However due to current barriers in technology they determined such a service wouldn’t be viable until 2013 at the earliest.

For its part OnLive’s founder Steve Perlman understands the doubters, saying, “They damn well better be skeptical.” In a chat with our sister site Joystiq he says, ” . . . we knew people were going to be skeptical. And they should be, you know.” However his claims that their seven year development time in stealth mode allowed them to develop the video compression technology and servers to make OnLive work. He added that this summer’s planned beta test for Onlive should allow the public to discover the technology for themselves.

Go to Source: http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/04/02/onlive-continues-to-get-skeptical-comments-founder-still-confid/