Cloud gaming claims its first casualty
September 10th, 2012
Last month, we discussed the future of cloud gaming. While half of you viewed it as an alternative to local PC gaming, a fourth of you thought it would flop, and recent news suggest they may be right.
In an in-depth report of how Onlive recently crumbled, The Verge reports: "Two Fridays ago, Steve Perlman told the 200 employees of cloud gaming company OnLive that its failure was all his fault. He thanked them for their hard work, and then he had HR show them the door with no severance pay. Then, through a legal insolvency tool, Perlman transferred all of OnLive’s assets to a brand new company and took over as CEO, hiring back only a skeleton crew to keep the ship afloat."
Basically, Onlive failed because "many users never paid a dime," the story notes. In crippled form, they're fighting to see another day. But the writing is on the wall, as it was for WebTV years before, another failed product made by Onlive's founder.
"As with Quicktime and WebTV, it seems that Steve Perlman had an idea ahead of its time yet again, and under his management, much of its potential may have been squandered."
What do you think of the news? And what effect might this have on traditional PCs and the real future of gaming?
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Through all the differences it is still perfection.
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my time has come.
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looks like he was rite
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AWA Game Night admin and derailer of Steam chat room conversations.
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This is so true. I was able to play Just Cause 2 on my little 10.1 inch eMachines m250 netbook, because of Onlive. I really, really hope there is a chance that Onlive will pull through.
God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia... I did.
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Why can't I just live in 2.0 forever....?
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New forums... Soon™
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Kicking ass and forgetting names.
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I started a Xbox 360 group, so if anyone wants to join, just look it up or PM me.
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Lifes A Garden.. Dig It (joe dirt)
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I can't imagine a bunch of teslars etc. that are supposed to run a game on a server (ever imagined a game like bf3 running on one machine for a few thousand people at once?) generate the same income as all the hardcore gamers buying state-of-the-art equipment do
And seriously - where is the advantage?
Imagine you share an internet connection and while you play someone decides to download a 50mb file... small enough but still your lag goes up - in a normal game you'd pretty much not notice that - but with this technology not only the network-code-lag would spike but your visual lag aswell - good luck aming with a sudden 150ms input-to-screen lag
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Sounds about right.
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Goodbye
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The Sky isn't the limit.
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