OnLive, it's over. After five years of a chaotic journey, this pioneer of video game streaming will permanently close its doors on April 30. It said Friday after concluding the sale of its key patents to Sony, which offers a similar service with the Playstation Now.
Founded by the creator of Quicktime, Steve Perlman, OnLive allowed to play without having to install anything locally: games turned centers in datas and a compressed video signal was sent to the user, in their living room on a tablet or smartphone .
Nvidia in this niche
The problem is that deploy such an infrastructure is very expensive because it takes many data centers. It must indeed be within 1,000 km of a user, just to limit the lag (delay between action and reaction to the screen).
Debt, OnLive was bought by an investment fund in 2012 and since scraping by. If this is the end, the streaming technology, it is bound to develop. Besides Sony, Nvidia top up with its Grid service. Nothing will stop the growth of the Cloud.
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