onlive

OnLive had a pretty aggressive trove of patents, and when OL finally shut down, Sony bought their patents.

OnLive has been offering that service for five years (they got acquired a few months ago by Sony).

Both OnLive and Gaikai were doing this around 2008 and nobody seemed to give a shit.

This is how it could be accomplished prior to Sony's acquisition of Gaikai and OnLive.

Due to the sale, all OnLive services were discontinued as of April 30, 2015.

There was a great company, Onlive doing this for the past 5 years.

I imagine many of them were running virtualized Windows machines, as Gaikai and OnLive didn't start out as console streamers.

I thought Sony bought Gaikai, which is basically similar to OnLive - but a competitor service.

I'm not sure people would accept it just yet, but I don't think OnLive would fail quite so spectacularly now.

OnLive had five datacenters in North America, Gaikai ran on… 300?

I think this will definitely be noticeable (I remember experiencing a noticeable delay with OnLive even though the connection was pretty good).

OnLive was trying to offer this for $15 a month.

From onlive.com: "Sony has acquired important parts of OnLive.

Onlive started in a time before browsers had the features needed to make this possible.