Onlive has been known of for way longer then you think it has!

[Vancar6]

Well i am suprised to see this!
Did you know that onlive has infact been known of (sort of) cense december 2006!
Look here is the place where i found that out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/onlive
Its there youtube page!
Joined since 2006!
Well thats intresting!
and also look at this http://www.youtube.com/user/gaikai
Gaikai was on youtube cense 2006 aswell!
the gaikai youtube page could be a average person
I think there on to somthing

[MAG1270]

OnLive has been in development for 7 years..

[Vancar6]

i know....
But what i am saying is no one knew about onlive before march 2009
.......

[MAG1270]

Except OnLive themself..

[rasmasyean]

Forward looking companies try to reserve the names of their brand in prominant web sites like Youtube. The company has been arround for ages. That doesn't mean that anyone who ran into the onlive channel knew what the heck they were about. This way, they won't have to purchase it from someone later for some exorbitant price when they get famous. If you had www.apple.com because you were some independant farmer who discovered the internet early on as a way to share tree harvest stories through your web site...do you know how much you could have milked Jobs for that name?

[Aph0ticShield]

Yes, this does prove that they weren't lying about working on it for at least 3 year. I am more excite than ever now!

[Alex]

If I am not mistaken MS through Shane Kim in particular has been making comments since about 2 years after the 360's introduction that indicated a future console was not coming but that the future was "software and services." Perlman was probably persuasive with some people at MS going way back. Besides this fits with their cloud strategy and with what was found in the thread on 360 going Onlive-ish. MS has clearly understood that their general future was in the cloud for years. I think where they went wrong was that some of them including Ozzie thought that ads would play a bigger role than they will. You empower your customer you don't screw them over. At one time MS knew this, it was part of why they could be so confident going after Sony. Even after a RROD MS is still doing better, it was just about empowering the customer and developer.

[rasmasyean]

I'm sure there will be some WallMart commercial stuck in there somewhere where they find the right opportunity to show it.

And when you have a "Loading" page...what else are they going to do besides flash logos? Flash more logos!

[Phopojijo]

Forward looking companies try to reserve the names of their brand in prominant web sites like Youtube. The company has been arround for ages. That doesn't mean that anyone who ran into the onlive channel knew what the heck they were about. This way, they won't have to purchase it from someone later for some exorbitant price when they get famous. If you had www.apple.com because you were some independant farmer who discovered the internet early on as a way to share tree harvest stories through your web site...do you know how much you could have milked Jobs for that name?

Nothing... for two reasons:

1) Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple at the time... he was fired. ((And as we all know, subsequently re-hired to go as CEO... and his first two orders of business were to develop the ipod and fire the dude who fired him.))
2) Even if he was at the company, Steve Jobs is the type of person who would destroy you in trademark litigation rather than buy you off... even if you were dirt cheap.