Thanks for that! lol!

Sony's Gaikai servers are able to be used the same way. Its up to Sony to expand them beyond game streaming. First they have to launch it though and it depends on how profitable this will be.

Dude...Gaikai might not be amazing to you as it was, but it with Sonys investments it will become more than it was. The only thing they've told us about Gaikai was in the beginning so far for the instant gaming, quicker downloads, game sharing process and the better servers at the PS4 unveiling. They said they will be talking more about Gaikai later on. Gaikai is being used to enhance the gaming process and the OS Sony is using. They will not go overboard like MS was. Sometimes restraint is a good thing and as you can see with MS lack of restraint gets you into trouble. The DRM issue was probably one of the worst backlashes in gaming history and right behind it is  RROD and then Sonys Internet hackings.

Can't see anything impressive about cloud, sorry. If it is the future, there is no point in using it in the present when it doesn't work out for everyone.

Another overhyped feature. It will be proven when a game that can be played both offline and online uses it. Right now an online only game is using it and I am sure this is not the first time either. Surely MMO's have used this before?

This. Sony had no clue what MS was going to use the cloud service for. Sony focused the Gaikai purely on the streaming and gaming process and we'll find out more about it on the way to the launch.

" ... They [MS / Azure] will use the same servers for gaming or for business applications ... "
OMG ... they're gonna kill me with Word Documents on the Battlefield ?
Where can I preorder my copy of "COD: Powerpoint !!" :D

Gaikai is essentially the PS4's portal or mechanism for PS1-PS3 backwards compatibility. Although BC is no longer an accurate term since that meant hardware or software emulation and on the PS4, it will simply mean you can play any game made available from SCE's back catalog of games from the past 20 years.

That alone, depending upon how large the catalog is, means more to me that the ability to play games that use server side processing to assist in the computational load. We'll see how fast it really becomes relevant, as it could mean an eventual transition to an age where your "console" is nothing more than a terminal that grants access to games and services being processed at a data center filled with servers.

Currently, I'll take games processed on the hardware I have at home over that.

Personally, I'd rather see server side cloud processing being offered by Steam, so I wouldn't have to use up hundreds of GB worth of drive space for all my games (my whole catalog would be measured in TBs) and wouldn't have to keep upgrading my hardware for the best visuals. Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen given the sheer amount of resources needed to make this work realistically on a functional level.

It's exclusive becuase MS shelled out money so they didn't have to do P2P matchmaking like nearly every other XBOX title. Thanx MS for bringing your MP games up to par with what I have been doing on my PC for years..... I do believe Tiatnfall is on PC as well am I not correct? Yeah that's where I'll be playing it. Cloud computing... LOL

The cloud is The new cell, used in fanboy list war but doesn't bring much to gaming in the end

It doesn't need to. Gaikai is a dedicated gaming service. Those companies have cloud services for a whole range of features and MS have only recently added gaming to the list. Comparing Gaikai with the likes of Azure is like comparing a swiss army knife with a screw driver and trying to decide which is better.