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jacks81x on 08 January 2014
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bugrimmar said:
jacks81x said:
1. The Games

2. Because OnLive failed. Do you think Sony would come out this confidently if they didn't solve the problems that OnLive encountered?

3. Technology advances very quickly. You don't actually think Sony is using the same 3 year old technology that OnLive was using right?

4, The key to the solution is not to overhaul the network infrastructure in the US, because that's not happening anytime soon nor would a company like Sony have anything to do with that. Rather, it is to develop new ways of compressing data such that it can be delivered under low bandwidth. This is exactly what YouTube is doing when they announced that they would start streaming 4K videos in the coming months. Our bandwidth isn't improving the next few months. So how is that possible when 4K videos are 4 times the size of a 1080P video? Answer: better compression and faster/more efficient video decoding.


1. Assumption - You don't even know what games and how many will be offered.

2. Assumption - Sony has failed with gadgets and features in the past.

3. Assumption - Sony is using Blu-ray in PS4, which is at least 7 years old.

4. Assumption - Which compression and decoding technology are you talking about?

All of your reasons are assumptions and none are based on facts. The only fact in this whole case is that Onlive and Playstation Now are identical services. That's it.

1.  Fact - It will have Beyond, TLOU, Puppeteer, and GOW: Ascension.  None of which OnLive had.

2.  Fact - they have failed AND succeeded in the past.  So unless you can see the future, you can't tell me that it's a fact that this will fail.

3.  Fact - Blu-ray is still the standard high-def medium today, whereas data compression and streaming technology have improved in the last few years.

4.  Fact - Sony hasn't announced that so obviously I don't know the technology on which Gaikai is built upon, but one thing we do know is that Sony loves to use proprietary technology.  So my "guess" is that they're not using the same technology that OnLive was using.

5.  I did not say as fact that this will succeed.  This is merely my opinion.  If you feel otherwise, that's your perogative.  No one is pointing a gun at your head to support this.  I will try this when this becomes available to the general public.  If it sucks, I'll no problem saying that it sucks.  However, I'm not going to be the one who say categorically that something that's not even out for another 6 months will fail.