PSNow Coming To PC (RUMOUR)

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JRPGfan said:

Faelco said:

Of course.

The move to PC was expected as soon as Sony bought Gaikai (and it became later Playstation Now). This is basically the PS5 or PS6 beta test, it seems to go smoothly until now if they're taking the next step.

 I think the "service" will always stay 1 gen behinde.

When PS5 launches, maybe PSnow will be able to play PS4 games.

Exactly. Anyone thinking otherwise is fooling themselves. Sony is making so much money off of HW and SW, they're not abandoning all of that cash. And there's no way they are going to have people pay only $100 a year to stream all PS5 games. You know how much bandwidth and how many servers it would take if 100M+ people were wanting to play their PS5s, and the only way to do that was through streaming?

There's a reason nVidia and AMD keep making GPUs, while streaming services, like Gaikai and Onlive, either failed or saw little success. People prefer to upgrade their PC for the better experience, without having to worry about the fluctuating internet to handle their graphical output and controller input. Same goes for consoles. And really, the same could be said for phones. People don't stream their mobile games. They download them. And they continue to get better HW, either yearly or bi-yearly. HW is going to be around for a long time.