{"id":39840,"date":"2012-06-18T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39840"},"modified":"2012-06-18T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:20:36","slug":"was-microsoft-planning-to-buy-onlive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39840-was-microsoft-planning-to-buy-onlive","title":{"rendered":"Was Microsoft planning to buy OnLive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the great Aztec king Tlacealel once pointed out, you probably shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet, but here goes anyway – according to an alleged leaked document (emphasis on “alleged”) from Microsoft<\/a> HQ, the company considered buying cloud gaming service OnLive back in 2010, presumably as part of its next-gen plan.<\/p>\n

The document appears to be a slideshow presentation, and a downloadable version – which was hosted on ScribD, but has since been removed – listed OnLive as a “potential acquisition target”. This was because, as cited on the same document, OnLive could “up-end the console gaming market by making expensive consoles and PCs unnecessary for AAA gaming.” Or, in scientific terms, “if you can’t lick ’em, buy ’em out”.<\/p>\n

Sony was also in the news recently with rumours of a cloud service acquisition, with claims that a deal between them and either OnLive or Gaikai was “close to being signed”. In an interview with MCV just last week, Sony<\/a> boss Shuhei Yoshida<\/a> said, \u201cWe\u2019re looking at what OnLive is doing, and the tech around that, and considering how this can be a part of PlayStation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/h5>\n

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