Sony's Cloud Gaming Service Is PlayStation Now [UPDATED]

Considering the proportion of people on this site that complained about their internet connection not being stable enough to enjoy the Xbox One's initial online only plan, I'm surprised at the positive reception so far for this feature. Judging by the reaction last year, about half of you should never be able to consistently enjoy this.

A limited beta test only in the United States... and then they expect to roll it out this summer everywhere?

That's quite the increase in bandwidth consumption and potential failures. Why do I have a feeling this will not go smoothly?

Playing all of my favorite PS1, PS2, and PS3 games on my PS4? Sold! I'm so glad i upgraded my connection recently, i'll be taking full advantage of this. Hopefully the pricing is reasonable.

Sony is hitting a bunch of home runs right now.

"Here at Sony, our vision is offering a paid, digital-only, online broadband-requiring drm future with microtransactions, unlike our competition :trollface:" *audience claps*

This is what I was hoping the PS4 would do since I never had a PS3 and backwards compatibility was out the window, this was my hope to play PS3 games.

But then I bought a PS3 on boxing day so none of that matters I guess.

Doesn't remote play already allow ps3 games on vita, or am I crazy.

PS3 to Vita Remote Play went on to be rarely implemented as well. It retained any games supported by PS3 to PSP Remote Play support, including all PlayStation 1 games, but was again rarely used by actual PS3 games. Only a few games supported it, namely HD Remasters such as The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection and the God of War Collection

Ah, so yes it does but it's an old inefficient way to do what can now possibly be done just via streaming "all dat shyte" to any device, dropping the resource requirements down and probably also the efforts for emulation that would have had to have been on every console, can now just stream out from Sony's whatever whatever.

Reading wikipedia it says remote play started in 2007, wow that's crazy but I guess that makes sense. SOmetimes it takes a while for these things to catch on (or not catch on). After all, we're still waiting for second screen stuff to really catch fire in an exciting way... the gamecube/gameboy shit is finally going to turn into something?!!?!?

It's never going to work with my connection, but the notion of streaming PS3 games to my Vita sounds neat.

Nintendo needs to do this on Wii U.

I still don't think that internet connections in many areas (mostly the US, I mean) are fast enough for something like this.

CRASH BANDICOOT

kinda doubt it as streaming costs them money

sign me up

Wow.

I wonder if there will be a way for people to use this to freely access games that they bought previously on PSN?

I am curious what sort of deals they have to work out with publishers. Also, I want to play FF Tactics on my PS4!!

Hopefully my unreliable but relatively fast connection can actually this.

Let's hope it's stable and playable.

Other write-ups made it sound like an either or thing.

Paying for the service and then paying again to rent the game is a bad deal. It's why On-live failed and it doesn't make me hopeful for this service.

Dragon's Dogma on Vita? Yes please!

shame this didnt happen during the bombcast