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Lafiel on 02 July 2012
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AndrewWK said:
pezus said:
AndrewWK said:
Lafiel said:
AndrewWK said:
I am sceptic, about that. On the other Hand, I always am. Let´s hope Sony has done the right thing.


btw. can someone tell me some things about Gaikai. What it actually is, would be a start.

right now it's a free game-streaming service for demos - you can test demos of several different games for 30 minutes without any subscription or fee on their website (in a java window)

Now I am even more sceptic. Why is this company 380 million$ worth then. Because this does not seem like a very big deal to me. I thought it was something like Steam.

Because of the technology and potential. Steam does not offer streaming. Now that Sony has bought them, they can start streaming full titles if they so wish.


Is this really something we need? I mean Streaming games would need constant online access. how much bandwidth would it need? And what would happen if you have connection issues? I think it was a dumb thing to do. But I am just one guy.

It means you can play highly spec'ed games on any device that is good enough to handle the video stream(think TVs, tablets, smart phones, handhelds), because the game itself runs on high-end servers. In the future there probably won't be new consoles (not sure if after next gen there is another gen tbh), because you can just upgrade the servers and have better quality available for all those stream-enabled devices.

And Sony invested in this now, because the technology is advanced enough to go mass market (just test it on gaikai.com)  so they needed to acquire the necessary software patents and the infrastructure and know-how gaikai build up.

Ofc it means "always online", which in the 1st world countries mostly is no problem anyways, and currently their demos on relatively low video quality settings use up 1mbit-2.5mbit/s. With a medium sized adsl connection you should easily be able to use it (if there are server clusters in your region and they aren't overloaded - gaikai itself was just a small start-up but now sony can build up more and better infrastructure for that system) at this quality setting. I expect Sony to push atleast 1080p for that in the future, which probably will need better connections.