Sony buys OnLive cloud gaming assets and patents

[HEXUS]

The OnLive game streaming service will shut on 30th April 2015.

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[Tabbykatze]

I wondered when they were going to take over Onlive

[Output]

I didn't think the reboot was going to help OnLive any better than its previous attempt, so I'm not really surprised about the closure other than them lasting longer than I expected before doing so.

At least something positive can be gained from this, but I would have expected Valve to be the one to acquire the parts of it (to improve Steam) rather than Sony.

[shaithis]

Interesting that the amount seems to have been kept quiet.

Never expected much from OnLive, always felt they were a victim of the market. By the time internet connections became good enough for their service to thrive, we ended up with cheap Steam machines, next-gen consoles, decent PC ports and an absolute barrage of mobile games.