{"id":38706,"date":"2012-05-31T01:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38706"},"modified":"2012-05-31T01:52:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T23:52:52","slug":"e3-rumour-sony-to-announce-partnership-with-gaikai-or-onlive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38706-e3-rumour-sony-to-announce-partnership-with-gaikai-or-onlive","title":{"rendered":"E3 rumour: Sony to announce partnership with Gaikai or OnLive"},"content":{"rendered":"

In news that could be big<\/em> news for the next generation of consoles, Sony is reportedly in the process of acquiring a “high profile cloud gaming firm”, specifically either Gaikai or OnLive.<\/p>\n

That’s according to MCV, who seem to have a whole lot of insider information about Sony’s E3 show announcements. The site’s anonymous source is claiming that a deal between the companies is \u201cis close to being signed\u201d, and will include an “extensive” feature set.<\/p>\n

Both Gaikai and OnLive provide cloud-based streaming services, offering users high-end gaming performance on low-end, internet-connected devices, including PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets.<\/p>\n

The acquisition could be a huge thing for Sony, as it could theoretically open the PlayStation catalogue to non-PlayStation platforms, massively expanding its potential market. With Microsoft now holding 47% of the console market worldwide, this could be a total game-changer.<\/p>\n

Yes, that was a really lame pun, and I apologise. Quinton, please don’t get the hose again.<\/p>\n

Source: MCV<\/a><\/h5>\n

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It’s all up in the clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":36057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2007,317,3992,4626,1948,4628,129,15399,71],"class_list":["post-38706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-cloud-gaming","tag-e3","tag-e3-2012","tag-e3-expo-2012","tag-gaikai","tag-onlive","tag-playstation-3","tag-ps3","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38743,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38706\/revisions\/38743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}