US$ 380mi for Gaikai isn't that much money.

Sony intends to use it for much more than games.

I can see a future where Sony Pictures + Sony Music + Gaikai will work together.

nice article, personally I think Gaikai wasn't needed cause Sony already has streaming services up and running in the form of Music Unlimited, Video Unlimited, Vidzone etc.. surely 1 wizkid could come up with how to connect a dualshock to it for less then 380million dollar.. maybe 2 whizkids..

investors just don't like this buying and selling assets without takeling their bigger problems first.. which is understandable looking at what happend to sharp a few days ago..

We shall see what happens. But expect the next quarterly statement to have at least -1.8 billion in profit thanks to this news.

and i get that and to a certain extent i have also been that.  but let me ask... do you have netflix?

psn+ is basically gaming netflx..or at least developing into that.  yeah i know, i don't get to keep the games forever.  but you know what?.. i get around $2,000 in content a year for only $50.  it's really the same as netflix where for $10 a month i get hundreds of thousands of movies/tv.  at that price i'm quite alright with not "owning" the content because i'd be spending a tens of thousands of dollars a year instead of $120 for how much content i consume.  now with gaikai wrapped into the service so that i didn't have to have a 500 Gb drive for the massive amount of downloading.  fuck yeah!

i mean think about it.  the average consumer only buys 1 or 2 games a year.  if for the same price of owning those aren't you just a bit tempted to have every game ever even if you do not techincally "own" it?  a couple of years back i gave away my nes, snes, n64, and all of it's games.  it is surpisingly easy to get rid of that old junk especially have having it sit in  an unopened box for up to 20 years.  i just don't think i care for that little box of crap anymore, it's a waste of space to me now.

They just really need to learn how to create brand synergy. PS4 should be a defibrillator. Take that, vitality sensor!

When do the big 3 report their numbers?

on the day they bought the percents of olympus for like 600 million dollar they sold their chemical business for almost the same money so at least that was just like an exchange^^. (i believe i read that anywhere hope i didn't dream it)

well what you're basically saying is why own stuff when you could rent it instead cheaper? I don't actually use netflix myself just never found a need to  but I think you mistook what I meant, I still own every system I've ever bought, but they still all get played and are all about my 42in HD tv ready to rock, about 2 weeks ago myself and 3 mates were playing F-Zero and Smash bros on the N64, now I know we could all just have been sitting at our pcs at home using emulation and gameranger to play that online together and jump on TS3 and talk to each other, but I come from a small enough town here, none of my mates live further than a 10-15 min walk and nothing beats a room full of people howling at a screen as someones craft goes hurtling off deep blue at 800miles an hour :D Oh I should also point out when it comes to space, because of the town I'm at isn't really a city or so houses and rent are fairly cheap here, paying less than half what I did in a nearby city for a 2 bedroom flat for a 3 storey house, storage space is no concern given property price here.

AFAIK the games that were pulled from the stores of systems can be played as long as you have the files, but yeah if you delete the game from the System I don't believe there is a way to redownload them again, but since it's an xbla game you would be able to move that to a USB stick for fear of losing it if something happened to your Xbox.

But yeah you get what I meant exactly, it's that fear that you could lose it all so easily, heck it's not even a case of if on-live was to go down permanently you would lose it, there are times here if my net is down for maintanence or w/e imagine if any time you didn't have internet your consoles all go away too, not much fun to just be sitting there with nada or getting dc'd in the middle of a single player game, A joy only known by Diablo 3 players until now :D

I think you're pretty much dead on with this one.

It really isn't a matter of trying to keep the consumers happy when you're in the boat Sony is presently in, save for trying to get that killer product that sells. As a publically traded company, they are at the mercy of the people who invested, the lenders who (thanks to the credit downgrade again) will be charging them even more interest without knowing if they're going to see their money back and the like. That can't be nice for Hirai at this point. Just the stress of that situation would probably crush most people.

I think that's why I found the article interesting. It isn't doom and gloom, just a statement of nervousness by people who honestly want to see what Hirai has up his sleeve. Guy needs to be a magician right about now.