Sony’s first-party effort will revolve around at least two largely unknown core products and Vita. The two titles are likely to generate a great deal of excitement. Also expect Sony to attempt to play a strong “Vita isn’t dead” card.
Big core games on the small screen will be a focus for Sony this year, but, again, expect solidity rather than megatonnage. You may well be blown away by what’s on show, but it’s doubtful you’re going to be too shocked by any of the announcements.
Apart from the partnership deal between PlayStation and a leading cloud gaming service, obviously.
Yeah. This how they will do PS3 BC on PS4 as well.
You have to pay for it with PS+
Well, they have to solve BC somehow, given that they are changing Architecture with the PS4: PS4 is going to have 100 cores!Link?
Well, they have to solve BC somehow, given that they are changing Architecture with the PS4: PS4 is going to have 100 cores!
I red that from coffee stains, and 750 BOPS cant be wrong.
A number of sources tell us that cloud gaming provider OnLive will announce that it has reached a deal with Sony to allow streaming of games to PlayStation hardware. Details are sketchy at best, but sources insist that the announcement will come during Sony’s E3 presentation.
Gaikai has major announcements for E3, which has the potential to change the future of video game, the game consoles and the way in which we play.
That's my initial reaction. But when you look at Sony and PSS and the idea of device-independent Sony games, it may actually be a direction they'd like to take. Kutaragi himself spoke of cloud based gaming I believe. So how's about Sony pony up the cash to create OnLive servers and create the tools for PlayStation OnLive game development, and these games are then provide to every device a person owns over the net on a subscription basis or other alternative business model? The idea being to shore up streamed game development with light hardware API's making better use of the server hardware than running Windows games, making the Sony stremed platform the itunes of gaming.I've always thought this was "playing with fire" as far as consoles go, since it has the potential to make them redundant, but lets see what the details look like, if any, first. A lot of people on GAF speculate it's for backwards...
Fudzilla wrote it up too, though I'm inclined to believe they're making shit up from the prior "rumors". Still skeptical myself.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/27298-onlive-to-do-a-deal-with-sony?
oh and to throw another one in gaf has uncovered news of a big e3 announcement by gakai
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475485
i think i'll be most interested in how many people now change from "onlive/gakai suck" to "onlive/gakai are the best thing since sliced bread" now they've presumably got a console affiliation. i'm guessing a lot of them.
I've always thought this was "playing with fire" as far as consoles go, since it has the potential to make them redundant, but lets see what the details look like, if any, first. A lot of people on GAF speculate it's for backwards compatibility, perhaps particularly of SD era games, which I have to admit does make some sense on the surface (eg, stream PS2/PS1 games?)
If they actually bring PS4 as a cloud platform to PS3/Vita/Bravia/whatever it could be a huge game changer.
Me too. And you bet you'd be forced to pay $250-300 for that crappy thin client as well (just like with the Wii... )Tbh I hate the idea of crappy low power thin clients
I think MS would have it be better and less expensive in the long run if they just opted to start their own instead of purchasing any established game-streaming company.