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OnLive has been offering that service for five years (they got acquired a few months ago by Sony).

Are you sure? I thought Sony bought Gaikai, which is basically similar to OnLive - but a competitor service.

From onlive.com: "Sony has acquired important parts of OnLive. Due to the sale, all OnLive services were discontinued as of April 30, 2015."

Got it. Wonder what happened to Gaikai then.

Acquired by Sony in 2012.

As mentioned above, I'm well aware of that. I am wondering why they needed OnLine since they already had Gaikai.

As mentioned before, it sounds like they wanted the patents.

Sony did buy Gaikai, and they have been using their technology in a few PS4 services.

OnLive had a pretty aggressive trove of patents, and when OL finally shut down, Sony bought their patents. So the company wasn't really acquired, it was just a fire sale.

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