PlayStation Now is available on 2015 Sony Blu-ray Players

[Dusk]

aLkaLiNE said:

Dusk said:

Well, the PS3 is still for sale and PSNow offers PS3 games. That right there could be a 'shred of proof' if you are willing to see it. It's all conjecture for now.

That just proves that they're capitalizing on backward compatibility. It proves that the service end of PSN is robust enough to offer game streaming. It does not prove, however, that they have any plans to ditch hardware.

 

I think it's a big deal to have a physical presence in the homes of consumers. The moment they become an online only service is the moment they lose a shit ton of relevency. Think of all the most popular or most profitable electronic services in the modern age - iTunes. Amazon. Google Play. All these multimedia storefronts yet they all have hardware to help drive/maintain brand awareness. I think ditching the home media center space would be as suicidal as creating a vita phone, physical buttons and all. It just won't work. Of all people why is amazon gradually dipping their toes into hardware when they started as an online only store? They're expanding their presence. Even if sonys gaming division isn't uber profitable, the name itself helps to sell other devices they have to offer because PlayStation as a brand is synonymous worldwide for Sony. Wanna know what would be a real indicator they wanted to be service only? Other brands start to do the same.

Instead we're seeing more fierce competition then ever among set top boxes. Why is vita TV recently released? 

 

Even PSVue tells me they have no plans to leave. Here's the buy in - purchase a ps4 and you have the ultimate smart device for your home that can stream games movies and music, has a la carte TV services, plays physical media with a simple to navigate interface. Unless the next step is to merge the TV branch with PS to create some freak of nature smart TV I just can't see any good reason to not maintain a physical presence especially when they're the dominant force in that particular industry.

That's why Block Buster is dominating Netflix right? 

The set top boxes, phones, computers, TV's, Disc Players are just conduits to the likes of iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, Google Play ect. The reason that an Android phone sells is because of the Google Play store, not because it's an Android phone, if you were to remove Google Play from an Android phone, nobody would buy it, at least not without a competative replacement. 

Why wouldn't Sony put all of that into a TV? They have been working on that kind of stuff (along with almost every other manufacturer) for many many years. Every piece of equipment keeps trying to trump the other so more and more are being added into each.