Future: Prefer a PS4 or current PS3 to be PS4/PS5 compatible?

[Zlejedi]

MikeB said:

@ Zlejedi

Can you elaborate a bit further?

What do you consider to be nonsense with regard to streaming?

At least Sony has been thinking about game streaming since a long time, have you tried this with Lair yet? Lair is too demanding for the PSP to process itself, so that could be an interesting test case. I haven't been able to test this myself yet and you own both.

Of course the PSP's screen resolution is really low compared to HDTV, so it requires a lot less bandwidth.

Whole idea of cloud gaming is bullshit. 1080 p quality streaming requires huge bandwidth and fast internet connections and even then it cannot remove lag from the equation (not to mention wi-fi barely manages to send 720p movies to ps3).

Also someone has to pay for servers powerfull enough to play game for thousands of people at those speeds. So this would have to be financed probably by some kind of monthly fee.

At the same time $100 computer GPU can play all current games at Full HD so if they release $300-400 console in 2012 it will be easily capable of running games at Full HD resolutions.

 

PS. I don't have PSP yet, I already bought few games for it but decided to wait with buying hardware to E3.