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[Fou-Lu]

Holy shit. My Vita is already seeing a ton of play between P4:Golden, indies, PSP and PSX titles, now I get to add PS2 and PS3 into the mix? Insanity.

 

[WhiskeyKnight]

Gaikai has arrived.

 

[Kos Luftar]

No idea if this will be part of the PS+ subscription?

 

[Jigolo]

PRice probably at E3

 

[Dr. Buni]

How does this even work? Will I need a PS4 to use this?

 

[Metalmurphy]

No idea if this will be part of the PS+ subscription?

There's no way that it will.

How does this even work? Will I need a PS4 to use this?

No.

It's a streaming service directly from Sonys servers to your device.

 

[AB12]

Can't wait to see how well it functions.

 

[waypoetic]

Lovely.

... Now i just have to wait three to four years for this to be available in Sweden!

 

[SephCast]

How much input lag is there with services like this? I'm a stickler for that.

 

[Lingitiz]

No idea if this will be part of the PS+ subscription?

It very much sounds like a separate sub.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I can't.

/Michael Bay

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

I'm curious how it will work with tablets. If they let you pair a DS4 with an iPad and play Last of Us (and it works well) that'd be worth paying for.

 

[Zep]

Hope to see Tekken Tag 2 day one..

 

[Mondy]

So you can play PS3 and PS2 games on Vita with this? What about PS4 games, is that only through remote play?

Yes, but that's actually the preferable option.

 

[Doug Heffernan]

Still a lot of unanswered questions regarding price, selection, availability and stream quality.

 

[anddo0]

No idea if this will be part of the PS+ subscription?

Doubtful.

I hope PS+ at least gets early access to the beta.

 

[Black Door]

Finally, games to play on my PS4

 

[SlasherJPC]

I've been playing a lot of PS3 games lately and if I can do so on my Vita now! HOLY SHIT. I knew I got another Vita for PS4 remote play but this just takes it to a whole other level!

 

[Dead Prince]

got a vita. ready for it. hope i get in.

 

[JawzPause]

Holy shit this is huge

 

[McWhoopass]

This is exciting! I wonder if access to streamed titles is the future of PS+? No more free games, just free game access? Still looking forward to this. Bring on the PS2 games!

 

[gofreak]

Much excite.......BUT


Pricing?

Subscription?

Rental options per title and subscription. Pricing unspecified.

Image quality and lag?

It's demoed at the booth, so I guess we'll get impressions. Which may be more or less valid depending on the remoteness of the servers involved, I guess...

 

[Tehalemi]

As someone who just got a PS3 this Christmas and enjoying it so far, this makes me very happy. :3

 

[Salex_]

I have to see how well this works but being able to play PS2/PS3 games on my Vita sounds so good. I hope you can play already digital purchased games.

 

[mr teaspoon]

I hope there are discounted prices for games if you're playing on PlayStation hardware, along with monthly PS+ deals.

 

[Afrodium]

Now let me play PS1 and PS2 titles on PS4 and im happy.

I'm pretty sure that this allows you to do exactly that. PS1-PS3 games can be streamed to tablets, phones, Playstations, and Sony TVs.

 

[Thats the Best Youve Got?]

Is this the gakai service they were talking about months ago?

Yep.

Just awaiting the price.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

So do we have any idea of how exactly this will work? I'm going to assume it doesn't take into account any previous purchases of PSN content that may work over this.

But say I want to play Godhand on my PS4, do I buy the subscription and then buy Godhand separately? Or do I just get access to PS2 games based on a subscription level? Or do I get Netflix style all access? Can I even play godhand on my PS4 or can I only stream PS3 games? Is anything on PSN available to stream or will I be able to stream the whole library?

Obviously I doubt anyone will know these answers yet but I am excited to find out!

Also does this mean that any thing is streamable from any device that meets the requirement?

Either way this is potentially one of the most mind blowing things sony has ever done.

 

[RoKKeR]

Yes, but that's actually the preferable option.

Ah ok, thanks.

 

[Somnid]

Hmmm...might be a way to play a couple of RPGs I want without needing to buy a new system. Given alternate hardware I don't even know why people would want to use a Vita for this though.

 

[kittens]

Honest question: why not allow streaming to PCs?

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Looks to be US only the way they presented it. At least maybe for 2014?

It said full rollout by Summer 2014 so I assume that means it launches in US first but by Summer the rest of the world will have the service too.

 

[masterlobo]

May finally buy a Vita if this works...

My only concern is that the video quality is awful like with onLive. It always looked as if you were playing through a YouTube video. Terrible! No wonder they went bankrupt.

 

[zoobler3]

whats the cost imo, this shit aint gonna be free.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Curious to see the pricing, but I'm all sorts of happy about this.

 

[Mondy]

Just realised that patent from the other day allows them to insert trophies into the old games...

That...is wonderful.

Wwwwwwhhhhhaaaaaaaat!??

 

[Roto13]

This could very well suck, you know. Like OnLive.

 

[The Bankslammer]

Damn, sounds very, very nice.

Excited to see what the library is. Really hope they get lots of partners on board.

 

[PhoenixDawn]

Has Gaikai improved much in terms of latency in the past year or two? I remember trying both Onlive and Gaikai back in 2012 and the input lag made them pretty intolerable, at least for me. It also seemed like the FPS dipped a bit more on Gaikai making the bad latency seemingly worse. This could be a pretty good service provided they've fixed up that latency, although I'm concerned that the bad lag is something that's just inherent to this type of set up...

 

[AstroNut325]

Now? What if I want it later?

 

[iammeiam]

Curious to see what the pricing model will be, especially for games you already own digitally.

Also surprised they're not launching first on PS4.

 

[Dr. Buni]

No.

It's a streaming service directly from Sonys servers to your device.

Oooooooooooh.... This shit sounds delicious. Although it will like not work with my shitty internet connection.

 

[Zevenberge]

I honestly said 'wow' before realising it... Awesome news.

 

[Whompa]

that's a huge HUGE announcement

 

[neojubei]

oooh, hope i get into this beta, i have ps+, ps4 and ps vita.

 

[Dead Prince]

i would pay an extra $10 on my PS+ sub for it.

 

[Loudninja]

This came out of no where did not expect to hear this stuff so soon.

 

[Sami+]

January!? God damn, that's a lot sooner than I expected. So excited to try it out.

 

[DirtyLarry]

Unless it is a ridiculously high price, and unless the lag is truly unbearable, you can pretty much count me in on a subscription no doubt.

 

[sn00zer]

First question out of general consumer's mouths "What about PS4 games?" because they certainly have the tech to do it if the want