I had a brief chat with OnLive founder Steve Perlman yesterday as we both waiting to be interviewed by USA Today. Perlman said that response to OnLive, the cloud-computing console competitor announced earlier this week, has been strong.
I asked him how he's been handling all of the doubters. His response, he told me, is that major video game publishers don't sign up for a project that isn't going to work. The confidence those publishers have should bolster people's faith in OnLive being able to deliver what both Perlman has promised and what has worked in test situations like the one I played through with the service earlier this month.
He said that people who have told him that what he's doing is technologically impossible just aren't privy to the breakthroughs they've made. We were just beginning to talk about his claim to this blog that "to make OnLive work involved fundamental work in psychophysical science," but I got pulled away.