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JustBeingReal on 03 May 2015
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GribbleGrunger said:
JustBeingReal said:


I meant from a cost point of view, see I said "viable" ;) , this has to make Sony or any company that wants to do it money.

Technologically it's just a server, but PS Now uses PS3 technology, because it's cheap for them to make to build their server farms out of.

Of course Sony could make farms of GTX 980 i7 PCs for a modern high end NVidia style GRID network if they wanted, but it would be too costly and it's doubtful they've make their money back from such a huge investment.

Ok, fair enough. What I personally think Sony will do is invest as PSNow grows and creates its own profit. We're talking about an audience hundreds of times bigger than any console audience. I'd say in 2 - 3 years time we'll see a few older PS4 games launching on PSNow. This retains the selling power of PS4 games on disc/PSN and offers further incentive for the 'new' audiences who subscribe to PSNow through phones, pads, laptops, TVs or Blu-rays.


I agree for the most part, except I don't think PS4 games will come to PS Now until PS5 releases, although I think with Sony using X86/PC Processing architecture PS4 games will probably run on PS5 natively, whether you use a disc or just transfer your downloaded game to your PS5, because the architecture probably won't prohibit that happening.

A wider Playstation ecosystem does seem like a great thing for Sony from a profit POV and a real reason why Playstation could become a bigger part of Sony as time goes on.

PS Now for legacy content, with everything from PS1, 2, 3, PSP and Vita running through that, as a subscription based system, would be very cheap in the future, especially compared to a system made to run only 9th gen games.

The premium 9th gen console experience will continue to be a physical piece of hardware, just like this gen, options are the future, not limiting people into only using the cloud for everything.

 

Having physical hardware out in the wild, connected to a router means that can actually do what remote play does now with vita and Sony smartphones, except Sony doesn't have to foot the bill for internet bandwidth and they still give gamers that flexibility on the move gaming experience.