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Mr Puggsly said:
Figgycal said:

Valid points? I'm not going to argue with you.  I don't know Sony's official postion on the issue nor do I know how publishers feel about it and neither do you. Until Sony comfirms what the purpose of gaikai is, your guesses are no more reasonable than mine- I could just as easily say, I see no valid points made by this response. :)

My response was an explanation of why its unlikely we'll have access to our download history on Gaikai and its valid. You on the other were just sharing wishful thinking.

Look at the PS1 classics for example. It took time for Sony to work with the publishers to get those cheap games on Vita. Yet numerous PS1 classics still aren't available for Vita. Once again, it falls on the publishers if those games will be available on future platforms.

Here's a great example. Sony has actually a PS2 software emulator that could let us play most of our PS2 discs on the PS3. But they don't give to us, instead they expect us to buy PS2 games from the PSN store. Sony could let us use our old discs, but they prefer we spend money at the PSN store.

As if none of the playstations have ever had backwards compatibility. If gaikai allowed the ps4 to stream ps3 games (probably for a fee)- I don't see why it would be outrageous to think that it might be able to stream games I've already paid for and own on a ps3. How is that any different from being able to play ps1 games you already paid for on ps2 or playing ps2 games you paid for on the early ps3's and xbox titles on the 360?

I don't actually own a vita, but I heard that you could download the digital titles you might have bought for the psp to the ps vita for free- and that was after sony removed ps2 compatibility from the ps3. It's really not that unreasonable to think they would do the same for the playstation home consoles (though I would think gaikai would need a small fee).