PS4.5 / PS4k might not be new hardware

[only777]

setsunatenshi said:

only777 said:

You totally have missed what I said by a mile.

The way PS Now works is by having certain hardware at Sonys end that does the actual work.  In the current case, they have PS3 hardware running games, that is then streamed to your PS4.  This is how you are able to play PS3 games on your PS4.  The PS4 does almost no work and acts pretty much as solely as a reciver.

In this case, the hardware wouldn't be a PS3, but the supposed PS4.5.

If you thought PS Now was cloud computing like what Xbox was talking about, how did you think it worked on Braiva TV's?

 

I didn't miss at all what you said, I started by assuming the rumors are credible, and as such the most likely way I see them do this thing work.

 

You mentioning PS Now has absolutely no bearing on this rumor whatsoever, they might as well have quantum computers on their servers, it makes no difference at all to the entire topic.

 

No the topic as stated in the title of the thread is, what if the rumoured ps4.5 was not new user hardware but PS Now hardware.

the whole idea of the thread is the explore the idea of improved games being streamed and not physical.  It's easily possible, and all the PS4k rumour says is that Sony are working on new hardware.  People have just assumed that it'll be a new box to buy, but this is 2016 when games can be streamed to TV's, vitas, PS3 and ps4.  The home box makes no difference, I'm saying what if PS4k is a streamed service and the hardware only exists at Sonys end.