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Nintyfan90 on 13 February 2016
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joeorc said:
Cloudman said:

If Sony started doing that, it could be bad for their business, as people wouldn't need to buy a PS4 to play some of their games anymore and could just satisfy that need on PC, but that would be profit on software.

Though if I could play their games on PC, I'd be more willing to, haha...

Not so fast , there think about what I pointed out. The playstation console itself is not being replaced by PS now, what Sony is doing is turning the TV itself into a PlayStation remote play node! You still will need a PlayStation console for at least one of your TV's

What Sony is doing is actually pretty clever.

They are instead of trying to replace the console itself.  Instead Sony is adding in the TV to be accessible Node for the playstation console itself.

Best way to describe it.

Take a piece of paper, draw a picture of a TV.

Now under the TV put three columns.

One column for Microsoft, one for Sony & one for Nintendo.

Now in the column have console written in each column, draw an Arrow to the TV. But put Android OS written on the TV, circle TV now draw an arrow to Sony's column only.

Think about this for a sec. Instead of having to put a console under every TV in your household you can stream content from one single PlayStation console to any number of TV's in your house. But Also smart phones, tablets or PC's that still require a Playstation console. Or use online servers.

The key point is playstation is the center hub, smart devices that included the TV itself are being turned into playstation nodes.

 

Nintendo & Microsoft are not turning the TV itself into a Nintendo or Microsoft Node for their Eco system its still trying to put a box under every TV.

 The TV. Is now a general use compute device without needing a console. But having one console box being able to stream to all TV's in your house, but the TV itself having playstation software inside the TV from the getgo is the point.

Its being Absorbed into Sony's PlayStation Eco system, not excluded by having to have a box under every TV. Long term goal is what all TV's are all SmartTV's being produced Sony's PlayStation Eco system is already inside your TV itself.bthst by adding a PlayStation console to just one of your TV's allows them all to work in conjunction.

What exactly does the PS4 provide in this "mode"? What exactly is being streamed? I assume its content other than gaming, which would be pointless since those smarttvs already have the content available that playstation is providing. They are smart tvs after all.