OnLive Intros App That Turns Android Tablets into Touch/Motion Controllers

OnLive, the popular company that focuses on cloud gaming has just announced its new application for Android and iPad tablets.

The new application allows gamers to integrate their tablets and HDTVs with high-end gaming and promises to provide far higher performance, richer gameplay and deeper social integration than any console announced for 2012.

OnLive Player App for Android will enable gameplay of more than 100 OnLive games on an Android tablet with touch or OnLive’s new Universal Wireless Controller.

In addition, the application allows the tablet to be used as a touch and motion controller combined with an HDTV (or PC/Mac), and allows both synchronized or independent video on the tablet and HDTV screen, enabling combined gameplay with tablet and HDTV, or separate gameplay on tablet and HDTV.

“The power of the cloud is definitely the theme this week, displacing what had been assumed to be platforms that could never be displaced,” said Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive.

Multiplayer voice chat is also supported, both in-room and with other players around the world, providing a complete multiplayer experience.

“The OnLive Player App for iPad and Android shows how with the power of the cloud, the question is not whether cloud gaming will be able to catch up to consoles, it will be whether consoles will be able to catch up to cloud gaming,” added Perlman.

To make things even more interesting, OnLive stated that it will provide the exact same functionality on iPhone and Android smartphones.

This means that Android fans will be able to use their smartphones as game systems with touch and the OnLive Universal Wireless Controller, or as a controller to an HDTV (or PC/Mac), for simultaneous or independent play.

It is also worth mentioning that HTC announced back in February that it has invested $40 million in OnLive's gaming service, which is also integrated into the HTC Flyer tablet.