Comments on: What Sony’s $380M purchase of Gaikai means for future gaming hardware

By: bunsen

bunsen — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Comments should be disabled for gaming-related articles because they always provoke the same idiotic nonsense and trolling by the most immature gamers.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:24:20 +0000

Knowing $ony, their crappy PSN and the current state of the internet worldwide, this will fail miserably! As long as Dave Perry acquires the money, he will be home free.
Cloud gaming may have a future, but it will take years before broadband penetration is high enough for this to make a dent in the current strategy and Sony fails at everything they do, so don’t expect this from them.

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:35:10 +0000

Hi,

Congratulations to Dave Perry; He’s done an amazing job from conception to the Beta that I’ve been following from the start and occasionally been trying.

If he can stay within Sony and continue driving Gaikai, then I don’t think there’ll be too much of a problem; Sony also own Gracenote which is also used by competitors.

There’s also no fear of concepts of DRM, as this is all about thin-client streaming, just the image, not the processing beyond a low base spec, which most modern TV’s can handle.

I do just hope it continues as a parallel service, available everywhere (non-Sony), Tv, etc., while the potential remains for extending the lifespan of the existing hardware, and thereby reducing the costs of a lighter/”thinner” PS3 model, and even using low-latency Xperia handsets connected by hdmi to TV’s to still provide full-spec games but accessed as if mobile apps => My vision from the early-90′s envisioned!!!

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

By: Nii-Teiko

Nii-Teiko — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:18:53 +0000

Reblogged this on Nii-Teiko and commented:
this is interesting. why?

well…as much as I am aware of the importance of The Cloud in terms of scalability regarding cost, audience and infrastructure it still seemed like somehing far off, something not as serious…yet

this purchase means that it is the real deal in terms of actually delivering a product. the article also goes into a bit of detail in how this may affect future products like a 4th generation Playstation. is the delivery infrastructure up to scratch though? here in the Uk, bandwidth is a joke with a majority of ISP’s

see what you think

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By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:24:55 +0000

Translation; This is another train wreck Sony is planning in order to kill more of its brand and take down innovative companies with it.

They will not only hobble the perception of cloud gaming in a way that most people cant even conceive of, but they will also DRM it up SO bad that it will set back the consumer perception of cloud computing a few years at least.

If blizzard can fuck up Diablo 3 login and server based gaming the way they did with that title, imagine what Sony will do.