Mashable has rumors layoffs at OnLive amid a retraction of their original report that the cloud gaming service was shutting down today following a
tweet by InExile's Brian Fargo to that effect (thanks nin). The story currently suggests the entire staff has been let go, though some may be rehired for the company's next phase. Mashable's official statement from OnLive on this is: "no comment on the news other than to say, the OnLive service is not shutting down."
Kotaku notes that the
OnLive Blog has word on a free indie game giveaway, to the extent you can own a game streamed from the cloud, saying they are offering SpaceChem and Space Pirates and Zombies (S.P.A.Z.) for free.
Update: Gamasutra now says they can confirm that the entire OnLive staff was fired today.
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Beamer wrote on Aug 17, 2012, 16:14: Interesting. Guess they ran out of capital.
They did a lot right, including all the partnerships they got (putting them on TVs was somewhat brilliant.)
Which means the failure was either: 1) Timing (too soon for the idea) 2) Idea (just not a good idea) 3) Operations (business not run by right people)
I don't see anyone else jumping into this right away, given how successful the bizdev was for these guys. I don’t like seeing ‘anyone’ lose their jobs, especially in today’s economy.
I wasn't sold on the idea and didn't care for it all; however, the business model was 'somewhat' viable with most everything going digital/online/streaming in today’s market. So, I’d second one of your bullet points of “Bad Timing”; and potentially “Operations (business not run by right people)” too.
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Aug 17, 15:50 |
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Aug 17, 15:51 |
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Aug 17, 16:00 |
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Aug 17, 16:03 |
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Aug 17, 16:09 |
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mag |
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Aug 17, 16:14 |
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Aug 17, 17:04 |
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Aug 17, 17:13 |
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Aug 17, 18:49 |
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Aug 17, 19:23 |
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Aug 17, 19:35 |
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Aug 17, 16:22 |
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Aug 17, 17:41 |
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Aug 17, 18:10 |
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Aug 18, 09:30 |
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Aug 18, 11:19 |
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Aug 17, 16:25 |
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Aug 17, 16:37 |
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Aug 17, 16:58 |
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Aug 17, 18:33 |
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Aug 17, 18:42 |
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Aug 17, 22:36 |
Gaikai "failed" to the tune of a $380 million windfall. |
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Aug 17, 17:01 |
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Aug 17, 18:15 |
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Aug 17, 18:43 |
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Aug 18, 00:12 |
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Aug 18, 00:28 |
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Aug 17, 18:16 |
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Aug 17, 18:36 |
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Aug 17, 18:39 |
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Aug 17, 19:25 |
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Aug 18, 23:52 |
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Aug 19, 00:42 |
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Aug 19, 01:07 |
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Aug 18, 07:12 |
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Aug 17, 18:49 |
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Aug 17, 18:53 |
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Aug 17, 19:12 |
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Aug 18, 00:35 |
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Aug 18, 00:38 |
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Aug 18, 02:32 |
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Aug 17, 19:05 |
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Aug 17, 19:50 |
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Aug 17, 21:16 |
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Aug 17, 23:25 |
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Aug 18, 05:32 |
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Aug 18, 07:33 |
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Aug 18, 08:17 |
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Aug 18, 11:09 |
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Aug 18, 12:22 |
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Aug 18, 12:49 |
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Aug 18, 11:47 |
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