The beauty of it is you don't need a console, but makes up for it in the bandwidth needed. If my internet goes out I can still use my computer I can play the wii, and chances are if my internet is out weathers not too good outside so I don't really see me wanting something like this.
Idk about other people but I really do like tangible objects like discs or even things stored on a harddrive not a thinclient experience. Another thing is if this actually becomes big one wonders how much the quality would degrade as servers would be gaining load and losing performance, so would play quality go out the window at peak periods of the day, something you don't see with the current system in place with consoles even in multiplayer games.
Idk about other people but I really do like tangible objects like discs or even things stored on a harddrive not a thinclient experience. Another thing is if this actually becomes big one wonders how much the quality would degrade as servers would be gaining load and losing performance, so would play quality go out the window at peak periods of the day, something you don't see with the current system in place with consoles even in multiplayer games.