OnLive demos Crysis on iPhone, expects to go to iPad

I've been anxious of this service since it was announced almost exactly one year ago. I don't expect myself buying every single game from now on through it, but it definitely lowers the barrier to entry to be able to play some really awesome ones. The social networking features built in are really intriguing as well. Plus, it'll be fun to just spectate and wander around, checking out some great players and watching them live.

Its also great, because now I can save money when I finally buy a MacBook Pro. I'm not going to need the discreet graphics chip for most of my work, so the only reason I'd want to get it would be for gaming. Well, the 9400m will be good enough to do some basic games at lower-rez offline, and I can switch over to OnLive for the latest stuff whenever I want. Its going to be killer.

That's exactly what I was thinking. A FPS with no buttons or mouse (or analog joys if you're into consoles) sounds about the most frustrating thing I could imagine.

Especially other games that are more interactive (i.e. more control buttons & key combinations) like the Tomb Raider series was.

i thought onlive required plugin? how would you install this on a iphone or ipad ?

Hopefully we'll start seeing "There's a peripheral for that!" ads. It seems like the ability is already there in OS 3.0 devs and manufactures just arent taking advantage of it.

More importantly, who cares about video games? If you really need to play lots of hardware demanding games, you can buy a console. A computer, even mobile device, is to get stuff done, not waste time.

Argh, this will spawn 10 million 'But it can play Crysis' comments....

Their concept sounds kind of nice in theory, but since they have yet to actually launch anything truly concrete, I'll be a bit skeptical. This would be an interesting feature for something like the iPad though, I have to admit.