Sony buys what's left of OnLive

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Sony Computer Entertainment is buying the remaining patents and assets belonging to OnLive, the cloud-computing service that some might say was ahead of its time. OnLive as a service will shut down on April 30th and the company won't collect any more subscription fees. On April 30th, all OnLive player data will be deleted, though any Steam games purchased through the service will continue to reside on Steam.

"It is with great sadness that we must bring the OnLive Game Service to a close," OnLive writes. "Sony is acquiring important parts of OnLive, and their plans don't include a continuation of the game service in its current form."

Sony bought game-streaming service Gaikai for $380 million in July 2012, and it's since turned all of that tech into PlayStation Now. OnLive was purchased once before: A venture capital bought the company for $4.8 million in 2012, after the company accrued roughly $30 million in debt. OnLive hung in there for a few more years, in 2014 announcing a new cloud-based enterprise.

Regarding its closure, OnLive says, "We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being an OnLive customer, and we wish you all the best."



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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/02/sony-buys-onlive/

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ZombrPosted:

I's a shame that they had to bring it to a stop. I only ever used this service once, but cancelled after the amount of game limitations set. The best games available - and they did eventually get worse - were Saints Row: The Third and L.A Noire. I personally would blame their profit losses on the lack of content available, as well as the release of competing consoles like the Ouya. I also believe that Sony and Microsoft sails smashed what else was left of OnLive.

RinPosted:

BlackMyst
Dugtrio Did anybody really expect anything out of this anyway? It flopped from the get-go


I thought it was amazing, i used to have a shite pc and struggled to play any games but with onlive i could actually enjoy some games, I used to play homefront using it for hours. Dirt 3 was another i played alot, you was also able to play dirt 3 on my phone and tablet. It was a great service. It had a great library but it was not updated very much.

Same here. A month ago, I tried out the playpack and was surprised at how much games I could play on my old pc. I thought the service was great.

GebPosted:

i wish i would have known about this when i use to tried to game on my laptop

MykPosted:

I've never even heard of this but wow

DugtrioPosted:

Did anybody really expect anything out of this anyway? It flopped from the get-go


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