| Ali_16x said: Can't wait for all the comments that say "Oh look how all the PlayStation fans called the Xbox One a cable box and TV TV TV TV". |
You are indeed correct. Though I believe it mostly stems from the fact that most people read the headline and comment something along that line in order to appear smart and funny.
Anyway, this service has been in the making since the Howard Stringer days, and in fact, Sony revealed it officially back at CES of this year. The cool thing about this service is that it's not reliant on anything on PlayStation 4 itself as it's entirely a cloud service. Whereas Microsoft's approach was rather backward in that it needed Xbox One specifically and an actual cable box for it to function. So these two services are worlds apart, and I am well certain that Sony's approach has far bigger potential.
Though I do have issue with them putting the "PayStation" moniker into it. "Vue" by itself has a bigger potential for the service to become more mainstream on other devices such as iOS, third-party SmartTVs, etc. But Sony seems to be in the habit of putting PlayStation into every new service or device they are launching nowadays.
Well, it certainly didn't make PlayStation TV even remotely successful.
