Sony Reveals its Streaming Service: PlayStation Now

[Whiskey 7]

Interesting development or just keeping up?

Discuss.

Today at CES, Sony revealed PlayStation Now, an all-new games streaming service that will allow "classic" PlayStation games to be played across current-gen PlayStation hardware, as well as directly on other non-gaming platforms. PlayStation Now harnesses the power of Gaikai, the company Sony purchased for $380 million back in the summer of 2012.

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[MKJ]

if it's buffered properly and part of the engine gets installed locally (to counter input lag), this might be awesome.

[Κracus]

They're using Gaikai tech so it'll be good.

[Whiskey 7]

Interesting development then?

[Κracus]

Interesting but not at all surprising since the purchase of gaikai was a big deal.

[MKJ]

and they announced this feature when they revealed the ps4.

so no surprise, this is just the first time they talked about it as anything concrete.

[MKJ]

2014 Bravia tv's will support PSNow out of the box. that's actually pretty cool, just buy a Dualshock, get a PSNow subscription and start playing games.

[U4EA]

2014 Bravia tv's will support PSNow out of the box.

[Don Carlos]

2014 Bravia tv's will support PSNow out of the box. that's actually pretty cool, just buy a Dualshock, get a PSNow subscription and start playing games.

That's very cool

[Κracus]

Yeah who needs a console? I already pay for Xbox live...

[Doombrain]

But you don't pay full price because you used to run coke with the CEO of Microsoft.

[Doombrain]

Back in the day.

[Don Carlos]

What is also quite incredible is that a console that 15 years ago cost £200 is now an addition on a standard TV.