Could OnLive be the death of hardware?
GDC 09: Just as Zeebo promises new 'fourth' console, rival service threatens to bring high-end gaming to the masses

With Zeebo proposing that the future of gaming will bring about the end of disc-based media, an arguably even more exciting prospect dubbed OnLive threatens to end the gaming hardware race altogether.

The new on-demand service claims to do for gaming what the 'cloud' concept has done to computing â€" centralise all code and assets on a remote server, with games playable by users accessing the content across a high-speed internet connection.