Analysis: Is Sony buying time - or problems?

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kain_kusanagi said:

ganoncrotch said:

kain_kusanagi said:

kitler53 said:
i know nothing about any medical equipment but at the time of the gaikai buyout i heard nothing but praise from investors. to me, that particular buyout seemed reasonably prices with a good amount of potential. ..i hope so at least.

I'm not so sure Gaikai was a good buy. After what happened to OnLive it's not looking good for cloud gaming. As someone who's broadband internet isn't fast enough I'm glad that it will be a long while before it takes off. I prefer buying games on actual media that I can hold. MS smartly didn't buy Onlive even though they have the money.

I think the main fear now of anyone putting any money into a cloud gaming on-live type account was after the scare that they were going to go bankrupt people realized that if that happens they have nothing, you have spent money for games you will never have access to again and there really wouldn't be any fair comeback, it's not like the xbox where if microsoft stopped existing tomorrow all the games on my shelf would vanish. I think the prospect of investing money into a gaming collection which could just dissappear is not gonna happen.

 

As a nuts games collector too the concept of cloud gaming is kinda nasty for me, gotta have the boxes on a shelf!

I'm in the same boat as you. I don't sell my games/consoles. I have everything going back to Atari. I have purchased only a few, when on sale, digital only games. I enjoy them, but I can't help but wonder if I'll be able to play them in 20 years like I can my NES games. I purchased Outrun 2 Online on XBLA. Sega pulled it because thier deal for the Ferrari license ended. I can still play it, but it's no longer up for purchase. What happens if I delete it? I don't know. Will it always be part of my account, no matter what? I hope so. Maybe it will come back with a new Ferrari license or replacement look alike cars. I'm happy that I can still play the game, but who knows for how long I'll get to.

At least my Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast for Xbox will work for as long as I have an original Xbox to play it on.

The thing I really can't stand about cloud gaming like OnLive is that you don't even purchase a digital copy. You just pay for a service like you would cable TV.  If you're playing a cloud game and it gets pulled it's like a TV show getting canceled. But you can't record the games like you can TV shows.

AFAIK the games that were pulled from the stores of systems can be played as long as you have the files, but yeah if you delete the game from the System I don't believe there is a way to redownload them again, but since it's an xbla game you would be able to move that to a USB stick for fear of losing it if something happened to your Xbox.

But yeah you get what I meant exactly, it's that fear that you could lose it all so easily, heck it's not even a case of if on-live was to go down permanently you would lose it, there are times here if my net is down for maintanence or w/e imagine if any time you didn't have internet your consoles all go away too, not much fun to just be sitting there with nada or getting dc'd in the middle of a single player game, A joy only known by Diablo 3 players until now :D