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IamAwsome on 10 January 2015

As much as I appreciate backward compatibility, this doesn't look worthwhile just yet.



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GribbleGrunger on 10 January 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:


They will when PSN goes down again for nearly a week and all of their games are unplayable. That's really what's going to kill streaming imo.

I'm not sure they can attack Gaikai servers as easily as PSN. Wasn't Netflix still working when the attacks went on?



 

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AlfredoTurkey on 10 January 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
AlfredoTurkey said:


They will when PSN goes down again for nearly a week and all of their games are unplayable. That's really what's going to kill streaming imo.

I'm not sure they can attack Gaikai servers as easily as PSN. Wasn't Netflix still working when the attacks went on?


PS Now doesn't need some sort of online authentication? I thought it did.



GribbleGrunger on 10 January 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:


PS Now doesn't need some sort of online authentication? I thought it did.

I know that when Sony bought Gaikai they also bought their world wide servers too. Perhaps PSN and Gaikai DO need to shake hands but I'd say it would be easy to make the authenticifation system separate. After all, it's only checking your username and your previous purchases via PSNow. It's not having to verify any information from PSN. It HAS to work separately because of the number of none Sony devices they intend to extend it to.



 

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