Welcome to OnLive
Steve Perlman unveils OnLive at the 2009 Game Developers Conference
Hey there. Welcome to the OnLive Blog.
I’m Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. It’s been about a month since we announced OnLive at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. In that short amount of time, we’ve seen an incredible level of interest among gamers, people in the video games industry and also people involved in technology and media. It’s been amazing (and fascinating) to watch people turning over the concept of cloud-based gaming on demand and looking at it from different angles and through different lenses. We definitely get the sense that OnLive’s announcement touched a nerve.
And, it was such a blast watching people use OnLive at GDC. There’s nothing quite like seeing someone who has never used a new technology walk up to it and start exploring it from scratch. We get extremely valuable feedback from “fresh eyes”, and over the three days of GDC we rotated team members from the OnLive development team to staff the demonstration kiosks. It was great for them to get direct exposure from people interacting with the OnLive system and also great for game developers curious about OnLive to get very informed answers to questions.
We collected and reviewed feedback from people that tried OnLive at GDC (really informative!), and folded it into the OnLive development process, continuing to refine the OnLive Game Service as we get it ready for our Beta program. One of the awesome things about a cloud-based technology is it gives us enormous flexibility to continue to tune and refine the system, not just now, during development, but on an ongoing basis after Launch. We are very much looking forward to that (it’s a software developer’s dream), and we think you’ll enjoy using a service that steadily gets better without requiring updates or upgrading hardware.
Of course, we still have plenty of work to do before OnLive will be available, but we want to start sharing our thoughts about OnLive in more depth (and less formally) than we do on the main onlive.com website. We’ll be communicating directly to you. You‘ll be seeing me contributing some more entries, and you can look forward to postings from other OnLive team members and perhaps a few special guests. We’ll use this space to keep you posted on OnLive developments while also sharing our thoughts on the past, present and future of the video games industry.
There is a lot to say. We very much believe that OnLive marks the beginning of a new era in entertainment. Again, welcome to the OnLive blog.
I very much hope you enjoy it.
—Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder & CEO
