Onlive *Finally* Shutting Down; Sony buying a lot of their patents

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ganoncrotch said:

I'm fairly sure their server farms were just fine for the 3 customers they had using them to stream games at compressed 720p in the regions even that was available. Better machines server side was not going to make input delay in single player games or weak links getting the video streamed to players any better.

I guess you could say that Onlive was ahead of it's time, but realistically it was a pipe dream to think it would work knowing the state of the internet in some regions, always reminded me of the phantom game console from 2002

I've seen this argument used in every single PSNow thread and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There are millions and millions of more people with good broadband than consoles. Who cares if some people haven't got the internet infrastructure capable of delivering this service? Sony certainly don't, but they do care that the potential audience dwarfs that of their current audience.