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JustBeingReal on 03 March 2015
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bunchanumbers said:
Soundwave said:


PSNow is the beginning, its laying the foundation. 10 years from now will be a different story, especially if Net Neutrality laws stay and things like Google Fiber push into the market. 

Really there's no reason only PS3 games can be on PSNow, PS4 games could be on there just as easily too. The fact is the tech does work more or less. 

And I'm pretty sure most gamers connect to the internet, hell even Nintendo says that the majority of their game systems are online. 


This. ^ Not only that Sony executives themselves are debating whether or not PS5 will be a cloud based console. Its already happening no matter how any of us rage against it. This is the future and Sony isn't competing against the other consoles. They're competing against every other form of entertainment. Its why they are pusing their digital marketplace so much. Their video and music services, their own TV streaming network and PlayStation will all be a part of their planned digital empire. The writing is on the wall and has been for a while.


None of that answers the issues I've raised here.

Consideration of some piece of tech doesn't mean that it's definitely going to be used. We've been told by Mark Cerny that Sony considered staying with the Cell Processor for PS4, only in a more advanced form, but when all the options to Sony and Playstation were evaluated going with X86 and an APU, with everything PS4 ended up having was the most logical choice to make.

It's not happening right now, because we still have physical hardware, PS Now is merely a complementary thing to the physical hardware, I'm not arguing against the remaining, I'm arguing against the notion that PS5 will only be a cloud based thing, it won't happen for the various reasons that I've repeated time and time again here and in various other threads in forums on the internet.

I've researched all of this very thoroughly, I understand the technologies involved very well and there's simply no evidence to suggest that a completely cloud based platform is a wise and solid enough system for a platform holder to stake their entire business on.

Having it as a complement opens up extra features, but for reliability's sake keeping the physical actually makes the whole thing way more stable, actually what would make even more sense is if you could add more than one local system to a local cloud based network, expanding the overall cloud footprint with more pieces of hardware, that isn't reduced so much if your internet goes down.

 

The writing is most definitely not on the wall for local, physical hardware, if anything the costs of production of it are going to get more competitive, it's reliability is orders of magnitude greater than relying on only the external network outside of your home.

Having cloud features existing doesn't prove the cloud is all we need, this either or mentality and rejection of what's worked for decades is a very bad way to think, because it's just accepting an unproven platform for how we'll game in part in the future as being all we need, with no proof that it can work 100% all of the time, it can't.