OnLive CEO quits

There downfall was trying to break into the console market. Like the Phantom they wanted to offer everyone's games on one console. Which only would have worked if they got the rights to a platforms exclusive titles. So if you wanted to play Xbox, Wii, and PS3 games without having to buy all three consoles Onlive would have been a banging deal for only a hundred bucks and a small monthly fee.

Personally they should pull out of the console market entirely and focus on a PC service only. This would be amazing to allow people with strapped budgets to play high profile games without having to shell out hundreds of dollars on computer upgrades. Not to mention this would probably drive hardware prices down in the long run.

anyone who thought online would be a success i have a bridge i can sell you

Onlive for me has ended up being a demo platform. I'll try games on it then buy them through other means.

Wasn't this Onlive supposed to rival consoles? I never ever thought it would. Not that I want it to go down the tubes, but they probably should have went a different route, like maybe starting out on a bit of a smaller scale? I don't know much about Onlive or any of their ambitions, just trying to put in my 2 one hundredths of a dollar.

ahead of its time... until every fr1ggin household in America and 85% of the planet has got super duper HYPER DSL SATELLITE 1000000MBPS internet this thing will languish in the internet graveyard along with Yahoo, Myspace and Geocities

(ok I was joking about Yahoo)

That was smart of him. 

If steam made this it would explode and be the best gaming device ever created even if it only offered 3rd party and indy stuff from steam like puzzlers and adventure games and this dude is dippin cus it wont compete with anything out there it will just fail.  dreamcast.

Like I have said on here before. The second this was ever even talked about I knew it was an epic fail. Not interested.

onlive is great , it is your internet connection that is not good. i use onlive and it works perfect.

Like rats, he leaves the ship before it sinks

Oh well. Even if OnLive goes under, the concept is there, and will be emulated much more successfully by other companies in the future. There likely won't be a 4th Xbox console, after 720 it will all be Microsoft cloud gaming services.

lol he's not leaving to pursue other projects, he's leaving the company and taking all his money before it goes under  so he doesn't have to pay for his debt when it does finally collapse. :P

Another Dreamcas idea? Just ahead of it s time or a bad idea?

and who the hell thought it was a good idea or feasible to "stream" GB games over the internet... Packets man packets!!!

lol, when the founder and creator of the company heads for the hills you know it's time to look elsewhere for employment... lol

I knew this was coming, i said this when his lame brained idea first hatched out of his head. 

The only smart thing he's done is take the money he's made and try to re-invent himself... 

The dude that's taking over is basically trying to see if anything can be done to bail out the sinking ship, but when the founder has lost faith in the company hah hah... 

Oh well. Try try try again... 

I certainly think OnLive is on rocky ground. It might be the start of the end for this service at least

So he is basically running away when things are starting to get tough, hmm.

Looks like OnLive might not last that long.

If you got kick ass internet connection.  Then you got everything that goes along with that.  I mean you paying $50 to $70 a month for your connection you don't give a fuck about saving a few dollars on not buying a video card or a 8 year old console.  They are going to need some games that are awesome and exclusive to them.  Find a way to stream to a Iphone over 4g that works good.  Perlman did #3 get out while the getting is good.

It's funny. OnLive seemed like 'the good idea nobody wanted to buy'. I did try their trial, and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't too good either.

Dreams crashing around on him, all of his big promises not coming to fruition, the realization sets in that he was selling a product he couldn't deliver. Instead of apologizing and starting renewed to provide the best service POSSIBLE, he pulls a Cartman: "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

"Pursuing a myriad of other projects." = eating, catching up on his soaps, finally going through his fridge and getting rid of the old leftovers, changing that pesky light bulb that keeps flickering over the dinner table, tries OnLive to pass the time but gets frustrated at the lag and low quality "HD" stream and curses at it for taking his money before realizing he helped create it, fixing that squeaky back door, clipping his toenails, playing Guitar Hero, trolling the Steam boards, ironing his underwear, installing the Clapper in his bedroom, using the Clapper for 2 hours straight, removing the Clapper because it's boring now, cleaning out his dirty fish tank only to find out there weren't any fish in there, checking his bank account... yeah, a LOT of projects.

Basically, the company hasn't lived up to the hype, screwed over its investors and he is now running away with a nice cheque.

pursue a "myriad of other projects" = he is taking his buyout and going yachting for 2 years.

I will not get their goddawful ads anymore I hope.

It's likely that Perlman is being blamed internally for the financial problems that got them into the need to switch owners. He may have also wanted a cashout so he could move on and this was the only way to get it. He might be one of those folks who's a great visionary and entrepreneur, but a terrible leader. I definitely would argue he's one of the reasons OnLive hasn't been focused on what it needs to be doing now to grow: lots and lots of marketing.

It's really good that OnLive is going to be able to continue on in a new form and that most of the employees will get their jobs back. Hopefully Perlman moves on to new innovations and ideas. He seems to be a sharp guy with a really good perspective on the future.

The fact that its CEO and founder resigned from the company he founded does not seem like good news to me.

SHAFTMASTER!!!!

Really. Fire your employees, sell your company, reap profits, rehire your employees, quit. Stand up guy. May your future be filled with barbed vaginas.

I'm glad for this. I did not want the industry moving towards this model for gaming. So if Onlive totally plummets and the service is no longer there at all, kiss all those games you guys purchased goodbye. Mine are sitting right on my shelf, with their beautiful case artwork and will always be able to played as long as my console still works. And just like how you can get a NES today thats used or been reconditioned, I will be able to get a PS3/360/Wii years later too if any die.

I was really hoping that onlive would take off.  I've tried it out and I'm in impressed.  All you need is a kick ass internet connection!!  Which most of us serious gamers have. You can say it was ahead of its time.   But the reality is, it's not.  The time is now.  Unfortunately they didn't market the service properly. They didn't get the contracts with big gaming companies.etc etc.  totally mismanged.                                                                                                                               

This was bound to happen after the last few debacles.

Who didnt see all this coming? I guess those investors didn't. Lol