PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[riderr3]

Source: http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2012/07/02/sony-buys-gaikai/

After all the rumours and a no show at E3 Sony have now, “entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gaikai Inc”.

While PS3 isn’t mentioned specifically in the press release, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House had this to say: “By combining Gaikai’s resources including its technological strength and engineering talent with SCE’s extensive game platform knowledge and experience, SCE will provide users with unparalleled cloud entertainment experiences. SCE will deliver a world-class cloud-streaming service that allows users to instantly enjoy a broad array of content ranging from immersive core games with rich graphics to casual content anytime, anywhere on a variety of internet-connected devices.”

Apparently Sony sunk $380 million to buy the company although, “the transaction is subject to certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions”.

[Seedhouse]

Really excited to see what comes of this. Hoping that they'll continue in the direction of Remote Play, and allow further expansion of PlayStation 3 titles to be played on Vita

[SHOT-R1]

PS4 in doubt?

[CrustyJockStrap]

After the deal with onlive for Sony blu-ray player and TV's I am shocked at this.

Makes you wonder if the Ps4 is going to be live streaming rather than physcle media. If so I would have though it would be a bit soon for that.

Have to wait and see.

[born2destroy]

I wouldn't mind seeing this on the PS3 as it would save my lengthy downloads of games, that i could just stream rather than download. However i would first like to see how smooth it ran with my connection before getting into it more

[ytevo79]

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CrustyJockStrap wrote:

After the deal with onlive for Sony blu-ray player and TV's I am shocked at this.

Makes you wonder if the Ps4 is going to be live streaming rather than physcle media. If so I would have though it would be a bit soon for that.

Have to wait and see.

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Like physical media will just go straight out the window next gen Think of all the lost revenue from everyone with low speed broadband like myself who struggles downloading a demo never mind streaming a game I want to play.

It will be available to a wide range of devices and will be a big feature of the next PlayStation alongside its Blu-ray player for retail games..

[ytevo79]

Digital Foundry's take on the marriage between console and the cloud.

[CrustyJockStrap]

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ytevo79 wrote:

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CrustyJockStrap wrote:

After the deal with onlive for Sony blu-ray player and TV's I am shocked at this.

Makes you wonder if the Ps4 is going to be live streaming rather than physcle media. If so I would have though it would be a bit soon for that.

Have to wait and see.

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Like physical media will just go straight out the window next gen Think of all the lost revenue from everyone with low speed broadband like myself who struggles downloading a demo never mind streaming a game I want to play.

It will be available to a wide range of devices and will be a big feature of the next PlayStation alongside its Blu-ray player for retail games..

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I know it won't as Sony has hopefully learned tha lesson from the PSPGO

But it will be the start of the end of physical media don't ya think?

[LittleBigDragonz]

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ytevo79 wrote:

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CrustyJockStrap wrote:

After the deal with onlive for Sony blu-ray player and TV's I am shocked at this.

Makes you wonder if the Ps4 is going to be live streaming rather than physcle media. If so I would have though it would be a bit soon for that.

Have to wait and see.

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Like physical media will just go straight out the window next gen Think of all the lost revenue from everyone with low speed broadband like myself who struggles downloading a demo never mind streaming a game I want to play.

It will be available to a wide range of devices and will be a big feature of the next PlayStation alongside its Blu-ray player for retail games..

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Try a Demo here mate. www.gaikai.com/

I tried ME3 and Darksiders and they run 10/10? even running at 1600x1200

[born2destroy]

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:

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ytevo79 wrote:

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CrustyJockStrap wrote:

After the deal with onlive for Sony blu-ray player and TV's I am shocked at this.

Makes you wonder if the Ps4 is going to be live streaming rather than physcle media. If so I would have though it would be a bit soon for that.

Have to wait and see.

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Like physical media will just go straight out the window next gen Think of all the lost revenue from everyone with low speed broadband like myself who struggles downloading a demo never mind streaming a game I want to play.

It will be available to a wide range of devices and will be a big feature of the next PlayStation alongside its Blu-ray player for retail games..

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Try a Demo here mate. www.gaikai.com/

I tried ME3 and Darksiders and they run 10/10? even running at 1600x1200

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I was reading the FAQ and it said they support laptops, netbooks etc. I tried to run it on my netbook and it said i require a faster cpu haha.