Gaikai - Will sony keep it for Backwards compatiblity.

[Ganoncrotch]

dharh said:

Persistantthug said:

dharh said:

Gaikai could maybe be a solution for BC for when the PS4 comes out, maybe, for those who want to play PS3 games but don't have or want to buy the physical media.

But I think the best thing SONY could do is when the PS4 does come out, make an even newer super duper slim PS3 with PS2/PS1 BC. That way they can finally stop selling PS2s. There is still a ton of potential for selling an offline system that will play PS3/PS2/PS1 game discs if they can do it for less than $149 and make a good profit.

They might do that, and that's a pretty decen't idea,

But your idea still doesn't address what really needs to be addressed....

that being, how do they make the downloadable games that people bought that need a Cell processor to work.....how to make them work on your PS4.  In order to make PSN/SEN go mainstream and not look like a joke, (Sony's aspirations are to go after Apple)....they will need to make that happen.

 

This is where Gaikai must come through....especially since the Cell Processor seems to be on its way out for future devices.

I agree with that in terms of the PS4 having PS3 BC. But I don't think they will do that for their PS3/PS2/PS1 machine. It's possible that they will drop PS1 support, since alot of the good PS1 games already have PSN support. I think though that the problem with Gaikai is that I can't use my physical media with it. I just don't see SONY selling 3 home consoles at the same time, which means they need to have a single console that covers PS3/PS2 games. I think 1 or 2 years from now when PS4 comes out there is a distinct possibility to have a cheep system that includes both cell and a SOC that can emulate the PS2. Anything else will not really be profitable.

Given how easily the psone can be emulated (original xbox/wii can do it) there really isn't any point to for it not to be able to have backwards compatibility with those games. As for Gaikai not using your physical media, it could easily, all the ps4 would need to be able to do would be acknowledge that your system had the correct blu ray disk in the drive of whatever ps3 game you had and then give you access to it on the cloud, exactly the same as the xbox360 with installed games from your harddive.