| Puppyroach said: Well, you are actually describing the very idea that MS seem to have had when starting the next gen with X1. They are the company that actually has the capacity to have servers near almost everyone on this planet. They created 300000 servers, virtual or not, that aim to support a huge online community. They also aimed to make X1 online/only, in my view laying the groundwork for an always/online service. It backfired somewhat but MS are the ones to have the capacity to make this a reality. |
This is not even remotely close to what MS was trying to do. And as far as laying the groundwork for something like this, the people activey and literally doing it is actually sony. Playstation Now. Thats exactly what they are doing. Thats why they bought Gaikai and they are probably using it as a test bed to see how game streaming could work.
All that server talk? Be we advised to not believe everything that MS says. What MS was doing was simply trying to ensure that it got a cut from used games sales and the only way to gurantee that is to make sure every console has to be always online. Nothing more nothing less.
No one has the capacity to do this yet, not even MS, the amount of money that would be required to sink into something like this to do it effectively is just too much for something that you couldn't even be sure of.
What sony would do, is they will run PS2 and PS3 games on playstation now for a few years, then at some point you would start seeing indi PS4 games on PS now. Or they could use the service as a way to allow game rentals.
