Spectrum has an interview with Perlman that discusses how OnLive came into being, his thoughts on his competitors, and how often OnLive will update its hardware.
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OnLive has only 2 potential customers: Microsoft and Sony
Another take on why OnLive is really geared for the customers (i.e. Microsoft and Sony) and not the gamers (for now). Essentially, the costs of the infrastructure behind the game service is tremendous and OnLive may need to be bought out in order to cover these costs. This may explain why OnLive has only stated a launch in the continental US so far.
OnLive makes Internet video game splash
This article does a good job of summarizing OnLive’s birth to it’s announcement at the GDC. One thing that is worth noting is that OnLive is capable of far more applications than gaming, but Perlman is focusing on gaming for now.
3rd rebirth of computing: the end of PCs and game consoles
This article covers a wide range of topics, most importantly, OnLive and it’s ability to pave the way for a new technology era.
The hidden benefit of OnLive
Some great insights about OnLive’s benefits are mentioned in this blog. These include solving the problem of cheating and piracy, as well as the relative ease of developing multiplayer games.
Analysis of Onlive's claims on performance
A technical analysis of OnLive’s claims. From this editorial, it may appear that the figures given by Perlman about his service may be the best case scenario which may not exactly be realistic.
OnLive: modern culture shock
The usual skepticism about OnLive as well as some insightful commentary about privacy, and user-generated content or ‘mods.’
Crytek Predicts OnLive Success, in 2013
It makes sense that OnLive, or any other cloud gaming service for that matter, probably won’t see much success. At least not yet. The technology behind cloud gaming is very new and far from being perfect. According Crytek’s research, OnLive won’t be very feasible until 2013.
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OnLive may draw Google, Microsoft and Apple as suitors
We already mentioned Google and Microsoft, but Keith Boesky, former Eidos president, believes that Apple may have interest in the game service company as well.
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Perry unveils Gaikai cloud game service
Very interesting development. Gaikai, which is a direct competitor to OnLive, states that their game service is better than OnLive’s.
Eric