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Sony Purchases OnLive and then kills it
Sony has purchased OnLive, one of the more popular online game streaming services. With the buyout Sony now holds all its patents. However this was a strategic move, OnLive services will cease to exist after April 30 2015.
OnLine will no longer collect subscription money and its customers can use the service up-tp April 30. This includes OnLive Game Service, OnLive Desktop and SecondLife on the Go.
It is unclear what will happen with the 80 employees. Sony probably will use parts of the technology and infrastructure of OnLive for its own PlayStation Now service. Earlier Sony already bought and killed Gaika.
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#5043683 Posted on: 04/04/2015 12:51 AM
Yeah it's a bit of a click bait news title considering on the BBC article mentions how they were previously bought by venture capitalists and staff lost jobs when the company accrued about $40m debt in 2012. Also it's just not been a popular service otherwise it wouldn't be selling it's patents after years of struggling.
Shame Guru3D is resorting to Kotaku like click bait articles.
It's a very misleading article. OnLive was shutting down, and Sony decided to buy the patents. They didn't buy OnLive and then shut it down
Yeah it's a bit of a click bait news title considering on the BBC article mentions how they were previously bought by venture capitalists and staff lost jobs when the company accrued about $40m debt in 2012. Also it's just not been a popular service otherwise it wouldn't be selling it's patents after years of struggling.
Shame Guru3D is resorting to Kotaku like click bait articles.
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#5043729 Posted on: 04/04/2015 03:25 AM
I dont see them ever killing off AMD. Personally I would think Samsung would give AMD the needed boost finacially to get them going on chip performance they need. AMD could easily produce the SOC's for samsung in house at that point. Wishful thinking.
I just see SONY intergrating all of the onlive tech etc into their own systems just like Nvidia did with 3dFX.
im missed 3dfx they where the king back in the day
I dont see them ever killing off AMD. Personally I would think Samsung would give AMD the needed boost finacially to get them going on chip performance they need. AMD could easily produce the SOC's for samsung in house at that point. Wishful thinking.
I just see SONY intergrating all of the onlive tech etc into their own systems just like Nvidia did with 3dFX.
im missed 3dfx they where the king back in the day
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#5043735 Posted on: 04/04/2015 03:38 AM
There is nothing misleading about the title. Sony purchased the patents. Onlive no longer has any IP that it can function with. The patents were the last effective link in the armor. After the patents were bought, they essentially rolled over and died. Sony provided the assistance in a self-assisted suicide. Would it be better to say that Sony pulled the plug on Onlive's life support? Either way it all amounts to a creative way to say that Sony was the cause of their demise. Sony delivered the mortal blow.
EDIT:
Of course Sony is going to integrate what was acquired into their workings. Everything is transitioning to a cloud based way of functioning. Whether this transition amounts to being a good move or bad will not be known until after it has happened.
EDIT: Before you go criticizing this, give this article a read:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/the-netflixization-of-video-games-is-almost-here
There is nothing misleading about the title. Sony purchased the patents. Onlive no longer has any IP that it can function with. The patents were the last effective link in the armor. After the patents were bought, they essentially rolled over and died. Sony provided the assistance in a self-assisted suicide. Would it be better to say that Sony pulled the plug on Onlive's life support? Either way it all amounts to a creative way to say that Sony was the cause of their demise. Sony delivered the mortal blow.
EDIT:
Of course Sony is going to integrate what was acquired into their workings. Everything is transitioning to a cloud based way of functioning. Whether this transition amounts to being a good move or bad will not be known until after it has happened.
EDIT: Before you go criticizing this, give this article a read:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/the-netflixization-of-video-games-is-almost-here
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#5043781 Posted on: 04/04/2015 08:17 AM
what about people who bought games there?
what about people who bought games there?
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It's a very misleading article. OnLive was shutting down, and Sony decided to buy the patents. They didn't buy OnLive and then shut it down