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JustBeingReal on 06 May 2015
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rolltide101x said:
DialgaMarine said:
AlfredoTurkey said:


So I take it that you're also ok with Sony no longer making consoles and hardware 10 years from now? Because this is obviously the first steps towards being an Onlive-like, hardware agnostic company... ala Sega. 

 I have a sad feeling that dedicated home consoles aren't going to be around for much longer. Sony might eventually have to go a strictly digital route and make Playstation a 100% digital service.

OMG, dedicated consoles aren't going anywhere anytime soon..... The network infrastructure of the world cant dream of doing it yet. I have a college degree in computer networking and most home networks in the world just cant handle it.


Exactly, you only have to look at how much processing power the current install base of PS4 has, 22-23 MIllion people, each with a 2TFlop machine, that's 44-46 Million Teraflops, all paid for as each customer "bought" their new console.

Each new Cloud customer would either be expected to pay out a monthly fee or an upfront fee and a monthly fee, they're not going to shell out $400 for their access to the cloud for life and then pay for the games, this service would die very quickly and there's not really any other way to make it work financially.

Nope the physical machine we have in our homes is going to be around for a very long time, probably a good few generations yet.