OnLive

[Shou]

I agree. With the advent of smart TVs over the next few years, OnLive has the potential to be the gaming portal for GoogleTV based sets and potentially AppleTV sets as well. They just need to survive until it hits the big time...

[Brand X]

OnLive is going to do just fine in my opinion. It seems like their executive team understands exactly what direction to take the service, which when it was announced seemed like an impossibility. On top of that, they are developing some other tablet services that are cloud based Windows services that based on impressions are very impressive, usable, and kind of kick ass. Personally, not my thing and I would never use it, but they are clearly putting a lot of time into understanding the market and how to leverage their technology outside of the realm of gaming.

[Shou]

Obviously, we don't have their financial #s but I'd really like to know their business model since they're spending so much on development and marketing but I don't think the userbase (ie profitability) has significantly grown so that they break even or are in the black.

How many of us on here pay for a PlayPack subscription or even actively use the device/apps? I've only paid for 1 console at half off and 1 game at full price to get the console free.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I pay $10 a month and maybe turn the thing on once a quarter.

[Jeremy]

I paid $50 to get it with Homefront and Metro 2033, and outside of spending $10 for the Playback Bundle for a month, I think I've only spent maybe $20 total on stuff that was on sale to an absurd degree.

[kedawa]

How is this smart TV thing going to work? Do these TVs support bluetooth controllers?

[kingoffighters]

I pay $10/month, I used it a lot initially but I have been really busy to use the service for the past couple of months. I like the tech/convenience.

[Shou]

How is this smart TV thing going to work? Do these TVs support bluetooth controllers?

The Google side seems to be Android in your TV with extended support for streaming apps. I haven't seen the latest from CES yet so not sure about Bluetooth but that would seem to be a given.

[Brand X]

Obviously, we don't have their financial #s but I'd really like to know their business model since they're spending so much on development and marketing but I don't think the userbase (ie profitability) has significantly grown so that they break even or are in the black.

How many of us on here pay for a PlayPack subscription or even actively use the device/apps? I've only paid for 1 console at half off and 1 game at full price to get the console free.

My guess is the licensing on the games is so cheap (especially given, there are really only a handful of 'top tier' games on there) that they are making money there. But the microconsole hardware itself is has an embedded Marvell Armada chipset and 512mb of ram, so that can't be insanely cheap to manufacture, but I would assume they are getting a decent margin on it. So who really knows what kind of actual money the company may be making.

I feel like the major investment for the company is done with (even though that means nothing), developing the initial technology, and now they can begin growing the user base, bring in better licensing deals from publishers, and expand on their technology (like they have with their subscription based Windows 7 cloud app for the iPad).

[Yoshi]

How cool is this? Both Rockstar and OnLive deserve a lot of credit for making that happen, despite the fact that I'm not buying the game for a third time.