OnLive Universal Controller, Tablet Apps "Coming Soon"
OnLive is gearing up to launch its Player apps for iOS and Android, and a universal controller for playing games on a tablet, laptop, desktop, Mac or Internet-connected TV.
While talking about the launch of OnLive over in the UK, OnLive vice president of Games and Media John Spinale said that the upcoming Universal Wireless Controller and the Player app will be released soon.
As reported earlier, the new controller will extend beyond the current controller's capabilities by adding support for tablets, Windows-based laptops, desktops, the Mac platform and even Internet-connected TVs -- that's in addition to wireless connectivity to the Nintendo DS-sized "console" OnLive offers to subscribers.
"We're in the process of revving our controller, which will be coming out this Fall, to work with a low latency Bluetooth protocol so that it'll work on the tablets," he told Pocket-lint. "It's the one thing that we thought that was missing; a console gaming experience on a tablet. You can play games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution with touch, which is sort of mind bending. But you realize that some of those games are great with touch, and some of them don't do particular well."
Spinale boasts that using a dual analog stick to play high-end console games on a tablet will blow people's minds. "As a gamer, it makes me happy that I can take my tablet and my controller, stick them in my bag, and take all my games with me," he added. "We've done a lot of heavy lifting to get to this point right now. But the slogging part's done, and now this is the fun part."
Previously OnLive launched a Viewer app for tablets that allowed owners to watch other gamers in real-time. However the new OnLive Player app grants direct access to the service's more than 140 titles and growing. OnLive actually demonstrated the Player app back at E3 2011, which we experienced up close and personal here.
No, it's freaking stupid and will screw up your eyes.
You're not a gamer, then, if you agree to play on this inferior toy. Hell, even consoles are better.
How often do u have access to high speed internet while you're not at home?
Might be useful if you can use the tablet like an OnLive-console and hook it up to your TV, but mobile gaming is useless if it relies on a high speed internet connection.
While it's fun and has a certain initial "WOW" factor, it's something that has very limited uses i think. It's amazing that you can stream live game content like this for sure, but in a real world scenario the 20mbit 4g connections are rarely 20mbit constant clean line. The second problem i see in this is, the screen. Who in their right mind would be gaming on a 4inch screen instead of 24inch? No matter how good the resolution on the tablet it will still be a microscopic picture compared.
For home use on the TV, this is a great low-cost solution for gamers on a budget. Tons of games at a monthly flat-rate and no worries about upgrading hardware. Competition for the consoles i guess. When is the next gen console out anyways?
I guess we all know who wears the trousers in your house
real easy to hook them up to TVs, convenient if your visiting family/friends. I hope the come out with mouse/keyboard support.
These guys are on the right track to making consoles irrelevant.
Take most Android tablets include HDMI ports now so you can connect them to HDMI TV's. Combine this with a bluetooth controller and you have the ability to have a portable console as long as you have a TV and bandwidth at your destination. Hotels have WiFi and most TV's at them now have HDMI. Also you could bring your console to your friends house and hook up. Or move to another room in the house when your wife wants to watch a sappy movie
Interesting possibilities.
the point of having a tablet gaming , is not to game on it at home duffus geeze think for a second the article even says
"it makes me happy that I can take my tablet and my controller, stick them in my bag, and take all my games with me"
And I can imagine what kind of butt-raping you and others will receive when paying for using extra data because you lost track of your cap while gaming.