{"id":8046,"date":"2010-11-19T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8046"},"modified":"2018-08-01T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:00:01","slug":"onlive-micro-console-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/onlive-micro-console-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"OnLive Micro Console Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9871\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9871\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9871 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OnLive-MicroConsole-S-e1428643914591.jpg\" alt=\"Order yours for $99.\" width=\"390\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Order yours for $99.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 19, 2010 \u2022 OnLive began taking pre-orders for its TV-compatible OnLive micro console unit. For $99, consumers receive one OnLive wireless controller plus a $50 credit. Earlier in the year the firm scrapped its $14.95 paid subscription model that forced user to pay just for the privilege to buy titles. New releases games can be purchased a la carte, but starting Jan.15 OnLive will put in place a $9.99 per month PlayPack subscription that gives users 24\/7 access to 40 back catalog games. So the $50 credit can be seen as five months of free game play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Just in time for the heights of the holiday shopping season, OnLive started airing ads on popular shows such as Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d this December.\u00a0 This indicates OnLive believes it has a mass market service, possibly similar to how Internet enabled TV is getting a lot of attention.\u00a0 Judging by all the noise around Internet TV, it appears that it may be the big news at CES 2011, much like 3D TV was hyped at CES 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 However, like 3D TV we do not think that OnLive has a truly mass market service at this point.\u00a0 The continuing business model updates signals that OnLive\u2019s path to mass market numbers may be difficult given the consumer\u2019s fondness for packaged goods games, not to mention the small number of available titles OnLive has available compared to the broader market.\u00a0 While the technology itself will continue to be a challenge, it does work better than many analysts had initially forecasted.\u00a0 We feel the long run opportunity for OnLive will come not only when the technology matures, but also when its selection of both new and catalog titles reaches critical mass.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 19, 2010 \u2022 OnLive began taking pre-orders for its TV-compatible OnLive micro console unit. For $99, consumers receive one OnLive wireless controller plus a $50 credit. Earlier in the year the firm scrapped its $14.95 paid subscription model that forced user to pay just for the privilege to buy titles. New releases games can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,78],"tags":[83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16704,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}