Mercury News has an interview with Steve Perlman, founder of OnLive, where he gives the benefits of his game service over console systems.

One major issue is the skyrocketing cost of developing games for the console. At one point in time, it cost only about 1 to 3 million dollars to create a game. Now it’s $30 million a game.

Distributing the games was also an issue. If demand and supply was not matched properly, it came at the expense of the game publisher.

OnLive is much more accessible than console systems. Perlman compared his game service to television and how accessible it is nowadays to watch TV on our computers. He did not, however, say that OnLive will replace console systems.

The next-generation consoles are going to be much more powerful, but Perlman says the systems will be also be a “beast” in size and much more expensive. He thinks that it’s an easy decision for a consumer to decide between a $600-700 console or spending that amount of money to buy games on his OnLive game service.

Developing games for OnLive will be very easy. It will only take a few weeks to get a PC game to work on OnLive.

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Spectrum has an interview with Perlman that discusses how OnLive came into being, his thoughts on his competitors, and how often OnLive will update its hardware.

MTV Multiplayer has a great interview with Steve Perlman, the founder of OnLive. Perlman really instills confidence in his service, as you can tell by this news title. Some very good arguments are raised on why OnLive should succeed.

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