This is actually really incredible news.

It actually makes a lot of sense considering some of the benefits of PS+. For example, with a PS+ you can demo a game by playing the first hour. Combining a streaming service will allow games to play that first hour immediately instead of having to download and install the game. Overall a time saver and bandwidth saver (if your ISP limits that).

The future of gaming is this type of service. A lot of it comes down to the stubbornness of gamers (which is huge) and the economics of it all. There's also the problem of latency which might make the service prohibitive in some areas.

If every year there's a new Call of Duty, for example, and the cost of a new game is $60, a monthly subscription of $5 is roughly equivalent. However, if you plan to purchase multiple games, the pay off is much greater. A subscription fee of $15 is equivalent to buying 3 games a year.

The best part about the service is the ability to try out games. Some games are great for the first few hours, and then become repetitive. This gives the opportunity to try out games without the need of having to spend the initial cost of the game.

It's basically all good news.

Why should Microsoft publish their games on onlive? They don't. You can't play them at all on onlive.

So if Sony blocks games that are available on PS3 as well, you basically kill 95% of the games available on onlive. Who would pay a monthly subscription for that?

not sony's style?? 

trying to get their hardware to do anything/everything regardless of the buiness sense sounds exactly like sony to me.

sony let's you download movies via psn (not to mention blu ray) but they also support netflix, hulu, amazon, a couple others i can't remember.

sony let valve do their thing to link to steam for portal 2 bypassing typical patch release what nots.

sony has the psn+ program that literally gives games away and I can attest to it significantlly slowing down my game purchasing rate.

.. no no, this is exactly sony's style.  it is also part of why i've grown to love them. 

Which is why I saw this will be exclusively used to stream game demos.

What if Sony just buys out Gaikai? Surely they're not worth too much.

OnLive is probably out of their reach.

That is really interesting. Downloading demos is already a pain (come on, 4GB of data for a single Killzone demo is too much). We could stream demos and rent games. The last one is a great bussiness, Sony doesn't make money from renting (one game is used by hundreds of users) and that would put them on the rent bussiness.

I thought all theses titles were available, thanks for the information

Correct, they shouldn't. And they won't. But, Sony could make a nice service:

- Play PS3 games on Vita

- Vita games on PS3

- Play demos without downloading

- Rent PS3/Vita games

Of course, we would pay for this service. But sounds like a good deal (for us and for Sony too).

Holy fuckballs ! Thats 82.09 times my download speed O_O

Hmmm, I think this service would chew through my 60 GB a month data limit pretty damn fast. Just like Netflix this isn't an option for me and a ton of Canadians who are at the mercy of money hungry ISPs like Bell and Rogers.