OnLive Now (Possibly) Valued at $1.8 Billion (Expert Analysis)

It's about how OnLive will fail when so many people in power love the idea? They are getting investments left and right. HTC invested 40 million just two days ago.Rikusaki

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"]It's about how OnLive will fail when so many people in power love the idea? They are getting investments left and right. HTC invested 40 million just two days ago.IronBass

So that's it? Question answered, topic done? :?

It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?

It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?Rikusaki

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"]It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?IronBass

OnLive is valued at a lot of money. There's no doubting that. I want to know why you guys think OnLive will fail when so many people in power like the idea.Rikusaki

The concept. The technology developer innovation to do this. Awesome.

BUT without support of tons o' games this will not take off. I do say we are witnessing some very cool technology though. It's great actually and reminds me very much of what we are doing in the business world with cloud based applications etc. Even if this fails this will not be the end of this type of gaming. I honestly see it being the future....IF ISP's globally find a way to chill on bandwidth quota etc in certain regions.

[QUOTE="IronBass"][QUOTE="Rikusaki"]It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?Rikusaki

[QUOTE="IronBass"][QUOTE="Rikusaki"]It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?Rikusaki

The concept. The technology developer innovation to do this. Awesome.

BUT without support of tons o' games this will not take off. I do say we are witnessing some very cool technology though. It's great actually and reminds me very much of what we are doing in the business world with cloud based applications etc. Even if this fails this will not be the end of this type of gaming. I honestly see it being the future....IF ISP's globally find a way to chill on bandwidth quota etc in certain regions.

KingTuttle

[QUOTE="IronBass"][QUOTE="Rikusaki"]It's more of a topic of discussion than just a straight up question... This is a forum, is it not?Rikusaki

You're welcome to bring another argument back, because the ones about its investements and supposed value have already been covered.IronBass

The concept. The technology developer innovation to do this. Awesome.

BUT without support of tons o' games this will not take off. I do say we are witnessing some very cool technology though. It's great actually and reminds me very much of what we are doing in the business world with cloud based applications etc. Even if this fails this will not be the end of this type of gaming. I honestly see it being the future....IF ISP's globally find a way to chill on bandwidth quota etc in certain regions.

More valuable than my Dodgers, yah right :roll:X360PS3AMD05

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"] Yes, I read that.

Rikusaki

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] Or get acquired which is my prediction. Jynxzor

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] So then why are you lying to us and telling us it IS valued 1.8 billion, because it's not?

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] It is the inventor of Apple's Quicktime streaming if I remember correctly (lazy to check my memory) so yeah. Totally. And I would too! :) I'm in my 30's still and a stack o' cash would be an awesome place to be right now! :) Not to mention ...it's probably going to be MS. That Live tag was a tease to MS. Jynxzor

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Rikusaki"] It's the same thing. They have 240 million share valued at $7.50 each.

KingTuttle

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"][QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] Not it's not the same thing. It's actually two completely different things. Animal-Mother

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] Valuation is an art. Look at the YouTube IP when it was acquired. There are lot's of historical things to look at, The artist though is typically (not in youtube's case tho) a VC firm. These dudes are just sales people selling dreams and a vision......and banking. HARD. But I see MS biting....and winning. They have a very similar vision. KingTuttle

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"][QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] lol, MS would run it into the ground, like they did with rare, and ensemble.

Animal-Mother

People are still talking about OnLive?! No one's even heard of this company outside of the video game-adoring web community.JAB991

Actually, the only one talking about OnLive is Rikusaki...

Rikusaki, stop making these damn onlive threads already! Looking at your posting history and blogs on these forums it's obvious you get paid to by them to bother the hell out of us with this $100 junk you call a gaming system. Who is Onlive targeting anyway? Console gamers already spent hundreds of dollars on their precious systems and CONSTANTLY defend it on GameSpot forums. You think these loyal people will get rid of their consoles and replace it with a cloud-gaming service where they don't even own their games forever? That must be their target audience because there is no way they are going to get enough PC gamers to switch over either. Onlive is offering convenience in gaming (like consoles) but more restrictions...something PC gamers will not accept. I just built my $1000+ PC (specs below on sig) and I'm playing all my games on max @ 1920x1200. Why would I sign up for a service that'll let me play mediocre games at 480-720p with lag? Stop selling this pipe dream you call the revolution in gaming. And to everyone else: just ignore this poster and eventually he'll go away.TheBigBadGRIM

OnLive's target audience is everyone.

Everyone means people who don't have high-end PCs or even a console. Everyone means those who can't play the latest games on their current hardware. Everyone means those who don't want a system dedicated to just gaming. A service that allows the latest titles to be played on ordinary hardware for the ordinary folk.

OnLive runs flawlessly on my netbook. And it can run on just about anything with an internet connection and a CPU that is at least as powerful as an Intel Atom N450.

I bet Rikusaki is a sysadmin for Onlive who has a lot of spare time and wants to keep his cushy job. dc337

The tech is worth that much no matter how many people on this forum deny it(mostly because they are completely ignorant of how things work...)

Granted, as an individual entity, OnLive is not going to be "worth" that much anytime soon. They won't get big enough or become successful enough to do that anytime soon. The valuation is a representation of their potential value to a company that may acquire them at some point. Say if Microsoft or Sony were to buy them. Or perhaps Asus or HTC or Intel... Doesn't really matter.... All that matters is if a larger company decides to buy them out, the concept and the baseline tech are worth that much.

To draw a direct parallel

This is a tech that is in one of the largest growth industries in the world, and it is within an application that is in one of the fastest growing entertainment sectors... Even if it isn't big now, it WILL be at some point in the future. The question is just when people want to jump into it. Acquiring OnLive would INSTANTLY put the buyer at the forefront of Cloud Gaming. And though OnLive may never be huge as an individual entity, it would if you put it under the control of a company like HP or Dell or MS or Sony or Nintendo....

Ha. Onlive. I laughed.neo_violence

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"][QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] Not it's not the same thing. It's actually two completely different things. Animal-Mother

I'm done hearing about OnLive till their library consists of better games.

Canada is no longer a viable option for Onlive lol

Now I just onlive to explode and have the designers somehow find a way to make the games nearly lag free with just regular cable connections throughout the US. I want this so I can laugh at all you.

I cannot play exclusive flagship titles from MS, Sony, Nintendo. I cannot play games unless I am online. Therefore, I really don't have any interest in the service, and I have a hunch it is doomed to fail.