22nd January 2010, 3:35 PM
Evidently beta accounts are locked to a specific server, and he was in the East but connecting to the West server, making lag issues much more likely -- so some of the lag issues are due to that, not the service itself.
Still, the awful image quality is unrelated to that. Just look at those comparison videos, it looks awful in comparison!
But yeah, I've definitely never been interested either. The idea's interesting as a way to get people who don't like PCs and the hassles of getting them working right into PC gaming, but I think even that is a ways off -- the bandwidth issues are just too huge right now, you'd need to spend HOW much to get an internet connection that can really handle this? And forget it if your ISP has a bandwidth cap...
Still, the awful image quality is unrelated to that. Just look at those comparison videos, it looks awful in comparison!
But yeah, I've definitely never been interested either. The idea's interesting as a way to get people who don't like PCs and the hassles of getting them working right into PC gaming, but I think even that is a ways off -- the bandwidth issues are just too huge right now, you'd need to spend HOW much to get an internet connection that can really handle this? And forget it if your ISP has a bandwidth cap...