On-Live closed down, bankrupt?
ngon master
http://gamepolitics.com/2012/08/17/confirmed-onlive-closing-down-employees-laid
seems like it tanked! that really sucks... although i only ever used the service as a trial i was pretty impressed by it and was often tempted to take it up.
seems like it tanked! that really sucks... although i only ever used the service as a trial i was pretty impressed by it and was often tempted to take it up.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console
Well it wasn't all bad, then.
o_o
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3250495/onlive-layoffs-acquisition
I personally wouldn't fully accept this tech until internet connection is as stable as power. And not just in super urban areas. Also the bandwidth caps are an issue for hardcore gamers.
Many people railed against steam when it first came out(me included, had dial up at the time, took me almost a week to play hl2). I think Onlive was/is much in the same shoes as early Steam. There at the forefront of a major shift, but its quite bumpy when your the first ones in.
imagine if that one person was Gabe Newell, who decided to ab/use onlive to get steam into peoples living rooms :P
It is common with a start-up to get paid some in wage and some in equity.
You're right, Its not technically bankruptcy. But it's just as bad. From what I gathered from here
ABC essentially means your DOA with about 9 months left on your lease bills backed up and no funding at all.
Well, the fact that it has more powerful hardware than a PS3, and (at least for now) is saying the games will be all free, and it clocks in under $100, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people are excited and wanted one.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/source-onlive-found-a-buyer-cleaned-house-to-reduce-liability-prior-to-acquisition/
They are "bankrupt" because they transferred all their assets to a new company, and then declared that their old company didn't have the assets to pay it's debts.
Anybody who has been keeping up on current events knows Gaikai was just bought by Sony. When you imagine Gaikai's tech rebranded as Playstation stuff built in to every Sony TV, it's clear that somebody was going to want to buy Onlive's propitiatory technology to compete
Not really, 1GB RAM isn't alot to be honest. Also the TEGRA Card is very capable, but only as a small scale game hardware asset, it's very limited, especially since it's mostly mobile based card.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2012/08/19/onlive-acquired-by-lauder-partners-affiliate-faq-issued-to-quell-rumors/
heh. I didn't know you had to buy games there. Doesn't that kinda go against the whole idea behind it?
Personally I don't believe in the onlive system either, at least not for games. But it may work if they sell it to some MBA types and stream office, teleconferences, powerpoint and whatother stuff to everyone's iPad, Blackberrey and whatever device. Screw the hassle of selling a service to one user at a time when you can reach a suit and sell it for 100s of seats instead.
If the PS3 didn't have CELL that might be close to the truth, but it does so claiming the Ouya has the same grunt as a PS3 is folly. And a lot of the games won't be free, they will be 'freemium'. Different kettle of fish altogether.
9 million is most likely nothing compared to the costs of onlive as it is.
And with that it still puzzles me on how onlive will even go on as it is, it's already proven to be very unprofitable, it requires servers to be spread out evenly to give people a good latency even at a low userbase.
They can't scale it.
And as everyone should know, hardware was never the big cost with gaming, games are the big cost with gaming.