| Dusk said: So now there's no reason to buy a PS3 and soon PS4? That is essentially the idea behind PSNow is it not? Kind of like chopping off their own head. |
Not really, it's going to be an option for some people to use the PS3 and maybe PS1, 2 games through PS Now.
It has nothing to do with PS4 games yet and is very unlikely to get those while Sony wants to sell PS4 hardware, using PSNow for that would basically kill all of the confidence people have in PS4.
The fact you can make your comment "kind of like chopping off their own head" should tell you that PS4 won't be a part of this for a very long time, like until the next gen comes into reality.
The cloud isn't perfectly reliable, if your internet fails and you don't have local hardware to play those games or even a copy of those titles you use through the PSNow servers stored locally on your harddrive you can't play them when your internet goes offline.
Putting PS4 games on here would require servers with PS4 hardware, that means enough unified big memory storage and a tonne of PS4 APUs for the millions of people that end up using this. It's very expensive to do that right now, PS3 tech is cheap for Sony, hence why that's being used in their servers.
