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OnLive tried cloud gaming before the internet was ready

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A wildly ambitious startup tried to process massive graphical files entirely over extremely slow broadband connections and completely imploded. Being ahead of your time is utterly financially devastating if the basic internet infrastructure literally does not exist yet.

OnLive tried cloud gaming before the internet was ready
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