Cinelinx: "OnLive has just abruptly announced that their services will be shutting down as Sony has acquired their assets with no plans to keep the service afloat. It might not come as a surprise that the service is vanishing because honestly who remembered they were even still there? OnLive has been trying to find an exit route for some time now as they switched owners and were constantly trying to sell themselves to console makers. That isn’t the problem we see thought, the problem is that the service is shutting down and all of their customers are totally left in the dark. Read about what they are going through after the jump."
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Sometimes life just isn't fair. Vincent Van Gogh went completely unappreciated during his lifetime despite his obvious genius; Jesus - a man who could turn water into wine, don't forget - was nailed to a cross and left for dead; while Steve Brookstein has only ever had one number one single, despite winning the very first series of The X Factor. Now what's that about?
the dreamcast was not amazing:
-It's graphics were in between ps1 and ps2
-the controller felt so narrow and skinny
-no dvd drive
I don't know why people act like it was anything more than another overrated undersold flop of a console. My friend had one because "next gen" and I told him I'm just waiting for PS2.
He always talked about graphics, non stop. Of course when I played it did look better than anything I've seen before, but that was it. The games were ok at best. I didn't like NFL 2K's control scheme compared to Madden's.
Even as a kid I predicted this console would die off in 2 years, well what happened...
Failure is always relative. How many sales makes something successful? "If your not first, your last", or in this case, you failed. I'll admit, I've never heard of a couple of these.
GameCube made the most profit in its generation. I don't consider that console a flop.
I consider a flop to be a product that has a negative impact financially for a company.
OnLive announced that they would be shutting down their streaming service for good at the end of this month, which has unsurprisingly upset some of the streaming service’s supporters. While some took to griping on forums, OnLive user Larry Gadea decided to take action.
OnLive has been acquired by Sony and will shut down all services on April 30th, 2015. Vault of the Gameverse says Goodbye & Thank You.
Damn that's crazy. Feel sorry for those people who still uses the services. Hopefully they can get nice discounts for Playstation Now.
An all digital future won't work. The way I see it is that it will Co exist with a subscription service just like the ps4 and ps now.
Unless these services are extremely cheap, don't see them succeeding at all, at least I wouldn't want them to.
I was an early beta tester of OnLive and even tested its Windows OS service too, but you literally keep or own nothing. With Steam you don't really own it either, but at least you have the licenses and can use it offline as well.
Sony has to think out their strategy very hard, it seems as though it will more than likely become a Streaming service and have a set top box instead of a console.
This will be the next Playstation. A Digital only service
Unless we live in a peaceful world with no internet monopolies only digital services will succumb.Data caps,lag etc...factor a huge problem for this.