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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PryzelPosted:

Never even heard of this before, but after a quick google search it seems like a pretty good idea, hope sony turn it into something better.

ExplicitPlayPosted:

I'd say Valve Steam would be happy with this :)

Paul-Posted:

It was okay onlive but needed more games, better games and stuff.

LiaPosted:

I have heard of OnLive but i never have used it! I hope Sony don't mess it up because it sounds like a great thing.

1989Posted:

Never heard of this before but wonder what Sony will do with it.

VauxhallPosted:

How haven't people heard of OnLive? also good for sony maybe they can make it more popular

TreyarchedPosted:

-Skittle I never heard of OnLive, but hearing what other people have said about it it doesn't sound like a particularly high class service


It was actually ok but just didn't get much attention. I tried it out and it worked fine for me but I owned a gaming PC so I would just use steam rather than OnLive

SkittlePosted:

I never heard of OnLive, but hearing what other people have said about it it doesn't sound like a particularly high class service

gtapro151Posted:

thought it had somthing to do with ohya just proves that m$ made the right move. cloud gaming is convenient but who wants to pay 60$ for somthing they can physically hold.

DankStorm-Posted:

Myk I've never even heard of this but wow


lol I never heard of this either o_0