Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off for just $4.8 million

Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by jacquesm on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @03:54AM (#4635479)

If you leave the battlefield to your competitor that's not really a winning strategy.

How is GaiKai doing now that OnLive has folded? Are they headed towards running out of cash as well at some point or are they doing better?

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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by jeffool on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @04:03AM (#4635497)

They were bought by Sony a bit back, actually.

And OnLive folded, and sold themselves to a newly created company named OnLive. So, it's still there. And I think still has a lot of potential under the right person. (With enough money.)

I still half-expect Steam to eventually offer streaming of games players already own for a small monthly fee. I'd expect them to make gangbusters if they did.

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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by avolcano on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @04:54AM (#4635593)

Not only were they bought by Sony, they were bought by Sony for $380 million dollars.

Shows what a difference a business model can have. They both had cloud gaming technologies, but while OnLive wanted to sell it right to consumers, Gaikai went for the publishers.

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