Intrinsic said:
Hmmm, your commenst are fast beginning to sound like you have a bias.
- I dont know how you could have missed it, but the PS division is one of the few sony divisions that are profitable. Whats responsible for them bleeding money is mostly their Tv divison and other electronics divisions. Difference between this and online, is that services like online had streaming games to be their bread and butter. Game streaming should not be approached that way. It should be a niche feature, something for those that really want it and something that I am sure sony doesn;t expect there to be a lot of people doing. If for nothing else not everyone has the bandwith that will make it feasible for them. And if comparing emulators to this, then you really have no idea what PSnow is designed for. Don't even know what PCs being able to run everything has to do with this.
PSnow means that the PS4 doesn't have to have BC compatible hardware to actually be BC. And I do not know of any PC emulator that emulates PS3 games and even ultimately PS4 games. You heard of the PStv. Its a $99 box with a controller. That will support PSnow too. At some point, even if you own a samsung tv and no console at all the Tv will have support for PSnow.
- Again, you are really beginning to sound biased. I don't mind you having your opinion, but when you dismiss everything and attack it with very little to no basis before the thing is even out it makes one wonder. For those that have the bandwidth to enjoy this, Share play will be the single biggest thing this generation. Get this, your friends can play any game you own while they dont own it. All your games. If being able to loan a game out to a friend was ever a thing, then this takes that to a completely different level. Granted, your milage may vary depending on you rinternet connection, but ts things like this that will make people want to have better internet connections. Kinda like netflix. If netflix could succeed, you really think being able to play games for free wouldn't? Hell, I am sure a majority of people will put up with whatever video artifacts they have to simply cause they are you know, getting it for free.
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Never lead an argument to "bias" because that, more than anything, shows the paranoia of your talking points.
1.) PS division has only been profitable if you ignore the massive billion dollar loses its acrued and, subsequently, not actually recouped. They have only recently actually started being in the positive but they were, before, bleeding money on the PS3. As for the rest, yes those companies were one-trick-ponies but the fact of the matter is that there isn't exactly much of any demand for such services. Sony is marketting it very much as if they expect people to pick this thing up.
I am comparing emulators because, in this day and age, it doesn't take a spool of CAT5 to wire your TV to your computer or an entertainment mini-PC which will be able to play any and all games you may like, on your TV, in better resolution/response/rendering than anything that PSNow can ever hope to achieve. PSNow is not good backwards compatability because it is a streaming service (ie: bad quality presentation, control lag, and so on)... and it costs an arm and a leg. What you have there is a badly constructed talking point. You'd spend less money and have better quality gaming just buying a PS3 if you were so desperate for the library that Sony decided not to include with the PS4.
You should be well, aware, that I do hate the idea of consoles removing their older cataloges through the lack of BC.
2.) I did not dismiss it, I said it will be quite interesting to watch it possibly fail for very, very real reasons. Input lag is a killer when gaming because it only broods frustration. Its a very real thing.
Netflix is an non-interactive thing, the comparison is terrible. Might as well compare gaming to reading a book.
