One Angry Gamer "By now most people have heard about Sony acquiring the patents for OnLive after buying the company out. It's been big news within the core gaming news spectrum after IGN covered the story. However, part of the process of acquiring the patents included shutting down OnLive... and that means all the games, save data, achievements and user content is being wiped for good. So what does this tell us about cloud gaming?"
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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.
Agree 100%. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the day gaming goes fully cloud dependent or full streaming, I'm out. It is sad that this is where gaming is heading to. I know it is inevitable but I hope it takes as long as possible to get there. It baffles me how so many people cannot see the dangers of this and how backwards this really is.
People are fine with giving up their rights to shave a coupe seconds off removing a disc and inserting a new one. It speaks volumes about the mentality of this new breed of gamers. You sacrifice your rights for a bit of convenience.
Then you have the selfish and arrogant ones who say "well, once I'm done with a game i have no need to play it again so it's really not a problem" yeah, because the world revolves around them and NO ONE ELSE should EVER want to go back and play a game on a 20 year old system.
We've still got another 2 or three generations to go before we get to that stage so i'm gonna enjoy them as much as possible. For me, it just isn't worth it. That extra 15 seconds to change a disc is not worth the risk of loosing thousands of dollars invested into a full online service. It's inconceivable to not be able to play a single player campaign because the internet is down. And for all the geniuses who will say "well, Ive had internet for a zillion years and it has never gone down", not because something has not happened YET means it will never happen. All it takes is one earthquake, one storm or hurricane, one truck to drive into a post, changing residence and having to wait weeks to get reconnected or a company simply going belly up, like onlive.
This is why I keep my old consoles. If I ever want to play one of my old games I can just boot it up with no problems. Dont have to pay more money out of pocket or be at the mercy of the servers. If there is a game I don't have then I take just a 5 minute drive to the local retro gaming store n pick it up cheap.
Isn't this why renting/ a subscription model is a good way to go with streaming games. Onlive was flawed when part of their business model required buying a box in order for it to work. What Sony is doing makes a lot of sense as they have said their game plan for Now is for it to appear on as many devices as possible (Netflix style) without buying anything extra.
I think it does highlight the dangers of streaming/ cloud based games but at the same time it also highlights the dangers of supporting an unknown and untested company. The same situation could apply to the Ouya. It released and people invested in it but nothing is supporting it any more (the thing died at launch). The investment was a bad idea and the same applies to those who bought into Onlive. It was a bad investment.
I just think cloud gaming is way ahead of its time but, one day it is going be the norm. These companies obviously think the time to invest is now. It is definitely fun for me to see them try to get enough customers to sustain the business.
Streaming games isn't a bad thing especially if your renting them. Streaming old games is great as well, It's all about having options, now buying full $60 games just to stream them is stupid.
I like what Sony is doing, streaming and renting old games is great! If I wanted to keep the game, then I would have just bought the disc from a store.
I doubt any company would go "all" digital or even try it.