I think I read that on Kotaku.

As for this technology, not interested really.

The only conceivable use I can see for it is the fast delivery of demos to try before I buy the retail unit to play in full HD on my machine.

So Sony block Hulu in the states? Odd, it’s fine to use iplayer on the PS3 over here.

“YES, it’s PERFECT for low memory or non-3D environments as we are just streaming video. So yes, if Sony wanted, we could make this happen. I’ve not had the time to get into that discussion with them yet.”

Possible future megaton right there then. Everything from Crysis to World of Warcraft to Photoshop and all that’s in between on PS3? Good stuff!

Well yep that’s true, and that’s the disadvantage. But really though, my net connection has been down maybe a couple of times in the last 5 years, for only a few hours.. Personally I think the advantages would be well worth it, providing it all can work as advertised, and that broadband speeds are up to it..

Anyway, it all seems very exciting tech, I have to be off now, thanks all for your opinions and information!

Get a better connection?

My Connection has only gone done once and it was during a Thunderstorm and that was 7 months ago.

Sony is getting ready for the digital age and the other companies are showing direction of it. This may just be the small tremor that causes a Tsunami….

I dunno, it’ll be interesting to see how this all unravels…

This stuff looks much more realistic than the OnLive stuff, but I wonder how much of that is a concious decision because of the backlash that OnLive got from the majority.

The NFS framerate seemed pretty bad, but not bad enough to stop you playing it.

What I really found a bit cheap though, and ‘showman-like’ was the way that they showed a COD4 thumbnail, but didn’t show it being played…

But as the tech at the server farms would be increased continually, the more advanced stuff may actually be found on the shoebox, especially as PC developers can only really cater for the market that’s out there, not just the minority that have the newest and most expensive tech..

And as I say as someone who’s cable connection is currently down, I can still play everything on my PC while Virgin Media get around to sort out the problem. Including Steam titles as I’ve switched it to offline mode!

Yeah that’s XBL though

PSN doesn’t go down.. At least not it’s entirety.. If the PSN is down you can’t access the store, but you can still play online, see friends lists, use PS Home and so on.. It depends how the service is set up.

The creator of ONlive said the device which would be the size of a psp(or smaller) would cost 50$ and then a subscription he didn’t mention the cost of that which would probably have to deal with licensing and all that.

Now look at the market with our video game systems majority of them have the same games except a few exclusives they are the same as far as the catalog the hardware is vastly different. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft would just have to be content based or have to add more services to play against each other with this software. All that X is better then Y because Z will be very small differences. I see this Cloud software as nothing short of a revolution, now its just watching waiting to see what will happen.

When XBL went down for 24 hours the other week, at least I could still play SP games on my 360.

I just don’t see the point, especially when PC hardware is getting cheaper all the time.