If OnLive has anything to say about it, this could this be a console killer. Something that puts the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii six feet under. OnLive handles all the heavy graphics rendering on its servers and what you get is lag-free gaming as a video stream. IF it works as advertised.
You would use either your broadband-connected PC or Mac, or you could hook up the set-top box to your home theater, which features Ethernet, HDMI and USB. According to OnLive, the box costs “less than a Wii.” OnLive will be launching later this year.
That’s when we will know for sure how it will affect the future of gaming. It has loads of potential.
[Kotaku]
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console, gaming, OnLive, service, set-top box, streaming 
It can’t work for very many people. I can’t even stream video locally between computers with my router, and I don’t have the 200ft of cable for a wired connection to the router. Aside from that, Internet lag *will* be a problem, streamed video will have noticeable compression, this will eat bandwidth terribly for anyone who has a monthly bandwidth cap, and people aren’t going to pay $200 for a console (or whatever it is) with 0 games.
oh good, another monthly fee…