Subscribe RSS FeedAfter the Cloud OnLive gaming service has just revealed preliminary data on the rates to come new doubts on the business model. For a fee of $ 15 just to access the games themselves need to be offered very favorable when OnLive for players to be attractive.
Last week, the online gaming provider OnLive at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco revealed the first details of its pricing model. If OnLive starts right after the E3 in mid-June in the U.S., the subscribers will pay $ 15 every month for access to the platform. The cost of the games are included but as not yet.
How exactly will look at the prices OnLive not is still unknown, but can be priced to compete with traditional PC and console games at all, a game should not cost much. One can easily calculate themselves. As euro prices are still not known, we now expect to complete in dollars. Let us assume that a player every five years to buy a new game console, and it spends $ 300. Spread over five years (60 months) makes $ 5 a month.
