OnLive sold for $4.8M. Was once worth $1.8B

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kowenicki said:

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DirtyP2002 said:
well, it makes you wonder if 380 million for a smaller service was a reasonable price.

What do you mean smaller service? Buying Gaikai was a lot better than buying OnLive for Sony.

Why? Why did they need to buy either? Don't they know how the internet works?

Maybe because the way Gaikai works is a lot more suited for Sony's needs? Its actually seen as a very cheap buy. A company with no debt, that uses modular server configurations, was a better choice for Sony that want cloud computing on several devices. OnLive was expensive to run, had fixed server configurations, it was 1:1.