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by vojant 3985 days ago
I have never using OnLive, did they support playing via browser? Browser solution is key to this as almost every device support modern browsers capable of ruining OP solution.
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They had Windows and OSX apps, as well as an iOS app. Onlive started in a time before browsers had the features needed to make this possible.
The browser is the key to what? Doing stuff in the browser?

It's certainly not the key to getting a game on every device. I can't think of one browser game that people play on their devices. Even Words with Friends, the simplest 2D game you could think of, is not used from a browser - most people run the native app for that.

>It's certainly not the key to getting a game on every device. I can't think of one browser game that people play on their devices. Even Words with Friends, the simplest 2D game you could think of, is not used from a browser - most people run the native app for that.

Because of performance, but streaming games solve this problem. Full screen browser wouldn't be any different than native game client.