Five years ago Onlive launched a beta of their online gaming system, allowing you to play games over the internet, without needing a high end PC. Ryan got his hands on the beta to try out and while it did work for him, there was high latency effecting his gameplay and when he mentioned that Onlive had a few words with him. It seems Sony dislikes the service more than anyone as they have just purchased the company and will be shutting it down in a month, without even offering to move the customers to Playstation Now. This effects not only the gamers but also the graphics manipulation service they offered to companies using the same infrastructure. It is always hard to be the first to try offering a new service and streaming has become a competitive business with a lot of companies with deep pockets offering similar services. There is one major up side for Sony, according to The Register Onlive possesses over 1000 patents for cloud gaming, which Sony can now use to further develop their services.
"Subscribers to the OnLive cloud gaming service have just 27 days of playing time left before the corporate servers that host their fragging sessions are to be shut down by Sony, which announced that it had acquired the service on Thursday."
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OnLive was doomed from day
OnLive was doomed from day one. I was part of the beta and thought it was OK, latency-wise, but I thought their pricing model was too expensive and the quality of the stream was lacking.
Sony was working on Playstation Now (buying Gaikai), NVIDIA was working on GRID/Shield, Microsoft was/is working on Bing/Live/Drive/Azure/Whatever, Valve is still working on God-knows-what… No one wanted to share their IP or split profits with a middleman like OnLive.
OnLive is now OnDead, grabbed
OnLive is now OnDead, grabbed up for some IP by the bigger fish, hopefully Steam client/Steam OS and the Vulkan API/VM will give the games makers an outlet without too much off of the top, and the game owners some updatable hardware with a games library/Games ecosystem to rival the dedicated(Not as Updatable) gaming console ecosystem. The whole Idea of the Steam OS based devices is that they are PCs in their own right, and can be custom assembled by their owners, with the Steam OS/Steam client providing a complete gaming OS/games Ecosystem free of any extra added middleman OS maker’s desire for a closed software ecosystem on third party PC/laptop gaming hardware. Steam OS as a Linux distro will definitely be a way around any proprietary OS maker’s restrictions, and Steam OS being open source will allow the entire gaming market from games developers, to single contributors to aid in the development of a gaming OS that benefits all of gaming, unlike the dedicated console makers and their indentured servants.
If anyone remembers Nvidia
If anyone remembers Nvidia GRID was first showcased at E3 through OnLive. It had horrible latency to a datacenter 5 miles away. Could have just plugged in a console and had a better experience.
The whole thing needs to be fixed end to end to get away from what we currently have software/hardware end to end.
for some reason people seem
for some reason people seem hell bent on doing things the hard way.
This is their prize.
Good riddance.
Good riddance.
Like, that whole celebrating
Like, that whole celebrating the bankruptcy, “and we aaaaaarrrrrrreeee, BANKRUPT” huge explosion of applause. What was up with that? Did we ever figure that out?
that’s some freaky shit
Pretty sure they are just
Pretty sure they are just going to re-implement this into the ps4.
Ryan has to feel a bit smug
Ryan has to feel a bit smug about this.
You mean his default? 😉
You mean his default? 😉
LOL Onlive better
LOL Onlive better OnliveSupport, and the much needed pull of the plug! You won’t be missed.