[QUOTE]We’re hearing unconfirmed reports that OnLive — a cloud gaming startup focused on bringing a console experience to devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android phones — laid off its entire staff Friday.
According to a source close to the situation, the company called an all hands meeting at 10am PDT, at which the entire staff was fired. Some staffers may be rehired as the company transitions to its next unknown iteration.
OnLive most recently announced a partnership with Ouya, the Android-based hacker friendly game console that broke records and stole hearts on Kickstarter.
The company was preparing to launch a new connected device in conjunction with Vizio. Past conversations with the company also indicated that a focus on mobile and tablet devices would continue.
Our source tells us that many employees blame the failure of the company squarely on the CEO — who refused to sell the company “many times.” There is speculation that the future company may simply be pure intellectual property play. OnLive reportedly has lots of patents covering cloud-distributed content, especially in 3D graphics.
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[URL="http://mashable.com/2012/08/17/onlive-layoffs/"]http://mashable.com/2012/08/17/onlive-layoffs/[/URL]
Is to be expected, they would never win over the hardware industry
I feel kinda sad that I called this happening when it first was announced.
First it says they were laid off... then it says they were fired.
BIG differences in the two
[quote]There is speculation that the future company may simply be pure intellectual property play. OnLive reportedly has lots of patents covering cloud-distributed content, especially in 3D graphics.[/quote]
NO
This is the distribution equivalent of 3DTV.
It'll eventually be okay, but right now it's shitty.
Fuck man, I used to play Mafia 2 there all the time, I hope we get something from this after I bought a lot of games there.
What a disaster, had they played their cards right they could have easily lasted until better internet access was wide-spread.
Awh man. I'm gonna miss bringing the onlive client to school on a flashdrive and playing Splinter Cell Conviction
and another potential crisis in PC gaming has been prevented.
[QUOTE=Wii60;37288523]and another potential crisis in PC gaming has been prevented.[/QUOTE]
It was actually a great idea, you were even able to play games like LA Noire on your cellphone, but it wasn't executed properly.
[QUOTE=Ericson666;37288451]NO[/QUOTE]
So they'll become one of these companies that holds patents, but doesn't do anything with them other than sue other companies who infringe on those patents?
[QUOTE=Rocko's;37288543]It was actually a great idea, you were even able to play games like LA Noire on your cellphone, but it wasn't executed properly.[/QUOTE]
yea tablets and stuff was a good idea
but On the PC it would of killed the modding scene entirely if it went popular. Devs would just throw it on the cloud and gamers would be unable to touch and mod files.
Right after they announced their deal with ouya too
Am I the only one that finds this just a *little* suspicious?
All I ever did with Onlive was use it as an advanced demo system.
This sucks. It was a good concept that had its flaws, but unfortunately, it didn't work.
Are we really going to believe this because a person ([URL="https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/status/236538505256394754"]that doesn't even work there[/URL]) tweeted that?
I get the feeling this isn't true, they would've made an announcement to their customers or something instead of such an abrupt shutdown
not to mention their recent partnership with Ouya
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37288675]Are we really going to believe this because a person ([URL="https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/status/236538505256394754"]that doesn't even work there[/URL]) tweeted that?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, something seems off.
Sucks but can't say I didn't see it coming
OnLive was the greatest demo service ever. You could play a game for 30 minutes without installing it so you could try it before you bought it elsewhere.
It's a shame they're going because it was generally a very good and cheap service.
I loved the idea of OnLive, but the internet where I live is just too terrible for it to work. I guess this means the little OnLive console I got at Eurogamer is useless now, not that I used it anyway.
[editline]17th August 2012[/editline]
[url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2012/08/17/onlive-we-are-not-going-out-of-business/[/url]
[QUOTE=The DooD;37289193]I loved the idea of OnLive, but the internet where I live is just too terrible for it to work. I guess this means the little OnLive console I got at Eurogamer is useless now, not that I used it anyway.
[editline]17th August 2012[/editline]
[url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2012/08/17/onlive-we-are-not-going-out-of-business/[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote][UPDATE 1: A source familiar with the matter has told Kotaku that OnLive is preparing to file for bankruptcy.][/quote]
I've been following this since day 1, was part of the testing program, and played it off and on post-release to try out some games. It was a really nice service but unfortunately didn't pick up. Sad day.
If what OnLive is saying about them not filing for bankruptcy is true, I expect that there'd be a witch hunt against the person that tried to propagate this (not that I endorse going on ones for trivial things).
This reminds me of Stage 6, it offered 1080p quality video hosting back when 480p was the highest YouTube would go, they closed down exactly because back then it wasn't viable for a website to host millions of HQ videos. Yet look at YouTube today.
Same thing here, maybe in the future someone will pick it up.
Ah damn. I have a friend working on remote rendering with Nvidia though, so I hope they step up (or use their technology to assist another company) and fill the gap this leaves.
From article in the op
[quote]Update: OnLive’s director of corporate communications Brian Jaquet responded to Mashable saying,”no comment on the news other than to say, the OnLive service is not shutting down.”[/quote]
OnLive would eat up my data usage pretty quickly (60 GB/mo on my DSL line)
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