Gaikai doesnt have any paying customers it doesnt sell games, its just for streaming demos at the moment, and Sony are very open about making there products available on more platforms, as long as the money is going through there store, they wont care people arent playing on Sony branded hardware. 

Just look at Kindle, Amazon sell there books on all platforms, doesnt mean they discontinue there own hardware, the future big digital companies will be the ones that let there consumers get access to there content anywhere on any platform, not on one first party box under there tele. 

I think this is a pretty bad decision by Sony. A company that lost 6 billion last year shouldn't be spending 380 million on unnecessary tech.

It's a step in the right direction. Streaming is an inevitable future imo, it's good that they're adopting early. I highly doubt we'll see full game streaming on consoles next gen, internet connections just aren't there yet. but there are many other things this is useful for, and the service alone, without any playstation integration will bring in money.

I heard it was 1.2 billion. These are some comments from n4g members. Apparently sony's still ballin'.

Mikhail  +   2h ago

LNDCalling  +   1h ago

If the next generation Playstation games would be streaming only, I'm not buying anymore Playstation. With all the Sony rumours, next Gen could then very well be the first time I'd buy an XBox. I really hope the future is not headed towards digital only distribution.
I want my stuff, all of my stuff, to actually physically be here. I need to be able to hold it in my hands, I don't like my belongings to be magically 'in the clouds', where I can only hope the things I payed for will work indefinitely. If I have physical copies of my things, no one can ever screw me over.

The day Cloud Gaming becomes the norm and it becomes the only way I could purchase a game is the day I stop gaming (on new consoles).
If they'll only use it for demos and the like then fine, but I don't see the point.

Sounds cool, but I question it's application. Cloud gaming for consoles seems like having a cloud contacts list for your cell phone.

Most people only have 1 anyway.

I mean, you could go PSvita/PS3, but... unless your giving a way a copy of a PS vita game to anyone who buys the PS3/4 version I question that applicability of that too.


I'd have to guess if this has to do with Playstation, Sony is planning to do something innovative as hell.

Like maybe a "console" that is a number of tablet screens.

You wouldn't need to buy another console.. Your PS3 and Vita (amongst other devices) would be able to stream PS4 games as it wouldn't require much processing power from your end.  But yeah, I like owning a physical copy of my games so I understand where you're coming from.

Never ever trust N4G comments. I just troll there and see what happens.

Look at the way N4G responded to my comment and look how neogaf or VGC responded to the fact that SCE lost 1.2 billion last year.

Too early to tell, maybe they'll use this as a improvement point for Sony TV's, have Playstation games be available to their TV sets for streaming exclusivity. Won't do much good now that Samsung beat them to the punch, but I don't really understand what they want with this anyway.

Nvm, forgot Samsumg already signed such a deal that would be hard to escape.

Samsung and LG have collaborations with Gaikai so I don't know how that is going to play out. Probably royalty payments unless Samung/LG nix's the deal.