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hey guys so today I'm here with a comparison between two of the major PC gaming scenes now on one hand we have steam and steam as I'm sure if any of you ever play PC games will know about steam it's a great way to get all kinds of games for print cheap and it's an overall really great thing on the other hand there's this brand new thing called on live now on live works a little bit differently it actually instead of happy running the games on your computer it merely strains them over the internet you know both that the pros and cons so I'll go ahead and compare them and kind of give you guys my thoughts and my opinions on them both so it became with let's go ahead and take a look at steam now if you ever play PC games more than likely you've at least made a steam account you played at least a little bit and there's definitely a really great reason for that steam is really excellent now actually this is one of the perfect things they've actually are having a holiday sale right now and the games are very very cheap I mean you can see here like for example there's modern warfare the original for like $15 Assassin's Creed Just Cause 2 there are a lot of really really cheap games which is one of the major things I like about Steam is that it's not going to be like you know it's continuously you know $60 or whatever you know the most expensive games are they have some really really good deals and of course they have an excellent selection of games so on top of that there's actually quite a few other things so well then take a look you can see here here's all the top sellers and everything like that but and that's a cool thing about this is that they actually have packs which this is a perfect thing going to show you this pack so that you guys should go ahead and purchase a lot of games at once so you can see here you can get all the 2k games so Bioshock Borderlands all kinds of these games you can get them in packs so actually this is a really good you can see you get all of these games I don't I'm gonna try count all of these and you can see here it's $400 of games for 80 bucks so there are tons and tons of really great deals on Steam now a couple of really good things about the steam is that it automatically updates all your games so no big deal you know it's always been running in the background so anytime there's an update to any of your games a lot of matically download and install it no problem in addition you have to go ahead and add friends and play together too which is very very cool so overall I really like Steam if you have a decent computer then really in my opinion this is a best way to go you have a decent Windows computer rather if you have a Mac there are a few games that are pretty good however for the most part most games are only gonna run on Windows so really if you have a nice computer and you want to go ahead and get into some pretty hardcore gaming steam is gonna be an excellent way to do it now let's go ahead take a look at on live online is a very different kind of thing compared to Steam as it is an entirely different experience allows you to play pretty much any game you want no matter what hardware you're running now basically what this means is that it's really more can dependent on your internet connection then you know what your specs of your computer are because all of the games are run on a server somewhere else where wherever they have their servers and basically it has you know they have a massive amount of computers that run the games and merely stream it to your computer now what this means is that you can occasionally have some laggy gameplay now I absolutely will attest to that but it all really depends on your internet connection and you know how decent it is and all that kind of stuff also it's going to show you guys a couple of the cool things so you guys go ahead and actually purchase games through online I'm as you can see here is a very cool interface here so we can go ahead the games are generally pretty reasonable I would like to see you know generally they don't but they aren't quite as cheap as on steams sometimes it kind of depends of course but you can go ahead here first definitely I will say this there is definitely a much much narrower selection than what you might find on Steam there well I'll go ahead just show you guys all the games right here there are not that many games on here however there are a decent amount for example Assassin's Creed Batman Arkham Asylum dirt 2 although you can actually purchase dirt - right now I'm just cause to grow quite a few of them that you know they're gonna be you know it's gonna be enough to keep you busy for a little while but definitely if you're looking for a lot of the cool games such as you know Call of Duty battlefield Lockeford any of those games you're definitely gonna need to go ahead and take a look over at Steam so let me back out here but now I'll go ahead and show you guys some gameplay in just a second but there are a couple other things that I do want to show you so the arena is something pretty cool it basically allows you to go ahead and take a look at anybody playing all these games so that as you can see here these are all different games and people are actually playing them right now so if I want go ahead and take a look at for example here we go somebody's playing wheelman and like I said guys these are all live games playing right now so we want to go ahead and take watch them I played Just Cause 2 and go ahead and click on that and this is somebody right now live playing Just Cause 2 and it's very very cool another section should give you a pretty decent idea of what the performance of the games are in general a lot of times I actually do look a little bit better than what you might find on for example you know the Xbox or Playstation 3 however it's kind of a little bit hazy and of course on YouTube you know the quality's not gonna be quite perfect but a lot of times the video looks a little bit hazy a little bit out of focus it's not the biggest deal in the world however you know it's mentally not you're not gonna get quite the experience if you were going to be playing a game on Steam so overall online is a great way to go if you have a lower power computer so basically the only real hardware specs that as far as I can see is that it needs to be able to play roughly 720p video that's the major thing if your computer is capable of doing that much motions even netbooks are these days and of course this is going to be great for a Mac as well as obviously there aren't that many games available on the Mac so for if you if your computer's capable of that that's going to be great and now the other major thing is your internet connection you definitely need a pretty beefy internet connection you know they recommend probably two three four or five megabits down most of you guys probably will have an internet connection like that but the good thing is on live you can go ahead and download it and play it you know go ahead and play free trials and all that kind of stuff and kind of get used to it personally where I live I have a little bit of lag it's usable but it's not amazing but of course depending on your connection you could run really quite nicely now another really cool thing about online is that there's actually a console I'm sure if some of you guys have been seeing the ads and they've been trying to get the word out for $100 you can go ahead by the online console which is pretty much the exact same thing and just comes with controller and you should get up to TV but it works the same way same game same everything and so the experience shouldn't be any different so basically what I recommend is you guys will go ahead and download and run online for free try free trial or to kind of see how it works and then you go ahead make a decision from there either way though both consoles both you know platforms do have their very pros and cons everything so that's like recommend go ahead and try them both out and see what works best for you personally I think I'm going to go ahead and be sticking to steam for now maybe once OnLive develops a little bit matures and get some better you know looks a little bit better you know has less bandwidth restrictions all it's not stuff I think I might go ahead and play it more but for now I'm going to probably end and stick with steam so any like guys that's it and just want to go ahead and give you guys this comparison if I just kind of tell you a little bit about the pros and cons of each anyway guys thanks for watching