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thranx on 30 May 2012
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kowenicki said:
thranx said:
kowenicki said:
So let me get this straight.

The idea would be to buy a streaming company and have that company stream PC games as now but include the PS3/4 and also host Sony games that would then be able to be streamed exclusively to the PS3/4?


The more i thin about it perhaps they just want to buy them to get some of the revenue that they will get from being on tv's. Don't lg and samsung have tvs with onlive/gaikai ability built in? Maybe its how they finally plan to make money off of tvs

But these large manufacturers can just set up their own streaming services and I fully expect them to...  MS has the biggest cloud presence and they coud surely turn this functionality on in no time couldnt they? Samsung is about to launch their itunes music alternative I believe, they wont stop there.

MS does have a good cloud service. I recently read that they are doing a cloud service for india's college campuses and students. Gaikai and onlive though have struck deals with pubs/devs/ip holders to allow them to stream their games. I am not so sure pubs and devs would want to do the same for lg/samsung/etc. Kind of like netflix i would think. Just a thought.