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How will it be backwards compatible?

Gaikai 11 22.00%
 
Per game 8 16.00%
 
Emulation 13 26.00%
 
It woun't 18 36.00%
 
Total:50
Tom3k on 07 February 2013
fordy said:

DisplayPort, USB3 and Power.....I think if you wanted to have a high-speed communication to an external device, it would need to be connected higher up in the hierarchy (such as PCIe, which is what Thunderbolt provides). USB3 is 5Gbit maximum (500MB/s after 8:10 ECC), PCIe can consist of more lanes to push data through  (Almost 2GB/s/lane).

Yep, sorry. I remembered MSI's GUS 2 that had 7970, but it was connected via Thunderbolt.



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Scoobes on 07 February 2013

I suspect it'll have a large selection of the Playstation catalogue/archive (1-3) available on Gaikai, but to access it you'd need to pay a subscription, maybe PS+, possibly a second higher membership rate. Using this takes less effort for Sony in terms of R&D, emulation costs or the costs of manufacturing a second CPU. Instead, all costs are covered by the player that actually uses the service.

You'll probably have the option to download compatible games (all PS1 catalogue, some PS2 games, likely no PS3 games), but have the ability to stream them all.




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platformmaster918 on 07 February 2013
Scoobes said:
I suspect it'll have a large selection of the Playstation catalogue/archive (1-3) available on Gaikai, but to access it you'd need to pay a subscription, maybe PS+, possibly a second higher membership rate. Using this takes less effort for Sony in terms of R&D, emulation costs or the costs of manufacturing a second CPU. Instead, all costs are covered by the player that actually uses the service.

You'll probably have the option to download compatible games (all PS1 catalogue, some PS2 games, likely no PS3 games), but have the ability to stream them all.

well that would suck.  I really hope there's some sort of attachment.




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