"Read your own article, they say "could be" not is Crackdown tech."

huh?  Did you skip this part?

Yes,”Spencer said, “build demo was early Crackdown work.” 

Now, obviously that doesnt mean that the final game will have this tech in it, but it is from crackdown.  So they are obviously playing around with the idea. 

This whole argument, and your attitude on the subject, just seem silly to me.  We are sitting here looking at video proof of how this kind of technology can be utilized and you are still saying it isnt possible. 

Do you have any idea how many people buy used games? Do you have any idea how many people sell games to allow them purchase new ones? Yet you feel that only 0.1% of every gamer out there would be affected by something like that?

I understand that you are talking about all digital games, but these PC games and indie games you are talking about doesn't cost $60. I will put it like this, go back and watch the sony 2013 E3 conference, go back and look at all the MS policy changes from reveal tt launch of the XB1. What all those things will tell you is how much people care and how big of a deal any kinda always online to play games is. This is just a tactfully better way of doing the same thing they were trying to do in the first place.

Why is this so hard to understand?????

Streaming a game off the cloud is different from needing the cloud to run the games that you have in your house and have paid for.

PSnow, is a service. You pay $4, $10, $20, monthly or whatever to have access to a game for a certain period of time. You do NOT own this game. You are paying to recieve a video feed of the game while its running off sony's servers. You do NOT need to own a console to even use this service, you can use it off a PS3, PSvita, PS4 or directly from a TV that has the streaming app built into it without the need for a console. Thats it.

What MS is doing, is making it such that games that you OWN. That you go into a store and BUY. That sits on a shelf in YOUR HOUSE. That belongs to YOU. Will not work on your XB1 cause your XB1 technically doesn't have everything it needs to run the game anymore. The game needs the cloud to run some parts of it. So no cloud/internet access. No game. Period.

A literal equivalent will be like saying, you go and buy your copy of (insert a game series you love here) so you can play that game on your (insert whichever console you have here), but when you get home you cannot play the game cause you aren't connected to the internet. And this is a single player game not multiplayer.

Microsoft doesn't fully understand yet how the console realm works. Sony does. They know you have to work in steps and not force things into full on existence. It will bring about ridiculous charges and things of that ilk. Taking steps will save you money and also help the audience move along with you. You can force things onto the PC audeince because with the PC realm no one is created equal. If you dont want it you don't have to use it. If you put it on consoles since everyone is treated equally under a closed OS they could become victimized by said choies. PS Now is ready to release. Sony isn't going anywhere as far as Microsoft is with the cloud. Microsoft is selling a promise they haven't revealed much of anything for just yet.

Well, 0% of pc gamers buy used games, they dont seem to mind buying new (and yes, pc games can cost $60).  Part of the problem is the x1 was reveal was the way they went about it.  Trying to hide drm and being sneaky about it.  Another problem is that they were the only ones doing it.  I think they expected Sony to have a similar policy and were caught off guard when they didnt. 

However, I fully believe that if sony had come out with drm policies as well, people would have grumbled a little maybe, but mkst people would have just accepted without much of an issue.

My guess, next round of consoles will be always online with integrated drm and nobody will care.  World wasnt ready for it yet, but both sony and microsoft seem to be doing stuff that will prepare people for a always connected future so that it isnt an issue in the next gen.  

Well, lets trace this subject back to its origin, shall we?  Somebody said what is stopping sony from making a game exclusive to psnow.  Meaning that game would always need to be online in order to play it.  

You said not possible as it is ps3 infrastucture and all ps3 games are available at retail...

however, that does not stop new games from being made that are exclusive to the psnow program.  Just because it is starting out as a service for old ps3 games doesnt mean it will always be that way.  In fact, it is pretty much guaranteed that as time goes on they will upgrade their infrastructure and add more games that havent been on any sony console before.  

One even more likely example would be regional exclusive games being put on psnow.  If somebody doesnt want to pay the huge cost of importing a game, psnow would be their only option.  Which would require that game being always online.

The door is WIDE open for sony to use their cloud service to require online as well.