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Sony prepping PlayStation Cloud?

Ahead of 2013 PlayStation Meeting, company registers several domain names hinting at cloud-gaming support.

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Ahead of Sony's major New York City event tomorrow, the company has registered a series of domain names related to something called PlayStation Cloud. As spotted by Superannuation, the domain names are registered to a Gaikai system administrator and IT manager.

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Sony acquired cloud-gaming company Gaikai last year for $380 million to establish a new cloud service combining Gaikai's resources with its own. A new Wall Street Journal report suggests the PlayStation 4 will be backwards compatible, allowing gamers to stream PlayStation 3 titles.

A Sony representative was not immediately available to comment.

Sony is expected to announce the PlayStation 4 tomorrow at its 2013 PlayStation Meeting, beginning at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST. GameSpot and its sister sites will be in attendance at the event, which will also be live-streamed.

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@TrueGB

true but the pc gaming industry just gets bones thrown to it by the console gaming. Sure pc has their own devs but its just more profitable to go console over pc and just port their games over sad but true...

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@TrueGB

ya and pigs fly my friend... I think thats just a cover story most likely hiding the true intention of beta testing a way to block used games...

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I can't think of anything interesting to say that's actually related to this article, so...

Gaben can't count to 3

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@Spartan_418 Why not make it a Makuch "article" and say "Gaben can't count to 3?"

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@Spartan_418

Can't use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch without being able to count to three.

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@queuing_for_PS4 @FAIL_TR0LL @SteamyPotatoes

It was simply a question, not a troll. I was under the impression that you would change the username to something like "queuing_for_TheLastGuardian" or whatever is on the horizon at the time.

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So either a monthly fee for acces to PS3 games, or you purchase those games again on their cloud service.

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@Phazevariance

Or they might include it with your PS+ membership. I've upgraded my PS3s with 1TB harddrives to accomodate all the content I've been getting with PS+. It would actually be pretty cool if it eventually turned into kind've a Netflix for gamers

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Sony on February 20 : "The PS4 won't have disks or hard drives. All the games will be streamed in low resolution at 20 fps through Gaikai. The console will only cost 300$, with a 50$ per month subscription."

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@nurnberg The console's final name is believed to be Playstation NEAR. The "Playstation Cloud" services will be its main feature.



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@queuing_for_PS4 @SteamyPotatoes

That's a shame. You have no more dreams? The PS4 is the be-all and end-all? So sad...

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JESUS CHRIST!!!!! Sony won't have to worry about competing with Nintendo or MS with the PS4, they'll be too busy competing with the PS3!!!!

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@HydePark1980 Which is ironic, since the PS3 has been competing with the PS2.

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@Landsharkk @HydePark1980 and lost

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Let it rain!

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@jcnba28 @ptpattycakes Wonderful 101 looks like wii shovel ware, Watch Dogs isnt official, and Bayonetta 2 has a select audience.... We just have to see what happens once the first party games make there way. Who knows I could be totally wrong on this.... just my thoughts ;)

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@jcnba28 @ptpattycakes Nintendo is losing third party support. They cant just rely on there own games to get buy. They push them out at such a slow rate. Plus once again they are a whole generation behind.... If they don't kick it into gear soon, I could see them failing in a few years.

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@jcnba28 @ptpattycakes On the same thought, how is Microsoft going to fail? They are also filthy rich.

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"Row row row your games gently down the stream, merely merely merely merely, ownship is but a dream..."

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@Double_Wide hahaha + 1 internetz for you

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@Double_Wide lol

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@jcnba28 If anyone is gonna fail its gonna be Nintendo.....

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@jcnba28 Your in depth analysis is just overwhelming. You can't possibly be wrong.

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did they upload the meeting yet

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Do you live in the future?

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Now if the great "future" is just a PS3 accepting cloud games or even a new acessory instead of a PS4... it will be the biggest troll in the story of mankind.

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@Sohereiam lol, that would be hilarious. And didn't Sony say they wouldn't announce the PS4 before Microsoft announce the nextbox...

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Here we go, Sony's gonna milk those licenses that you won't even own.

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Playstation 3 Streaming. it means Squishing money what games you own :)))

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@wexorian Most of PS NEAR's games will be streamed.

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Playstation cloud? Sony should think of a better name. Still it will be o.k to stream PS3 games. A nice way to catch up on the Playstation 3 games I have missed. This is not quite true backwards compatibilities with PS3 games. More like a virtual console for PS3 games. Now if Sony can put PS2 games and PS1 games on the streaming service. Have Playstation Plus open the service. While not true bona fide Backwards compatibility can be a virtual arcade of Playstation generations.

But needs a better name than Playstation cloud.

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@Megavideogamer Here's the 2 names Sony has been playing with:

http://www.trademarkia.com/ps-cloud-77697735.html

http://www.trademarkia.com/near-85377446.html


It is my understanding the final name is "Playstation NEAR"


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who the hell want to pay for something that they can't own it? the cloud gaming is a worse idea than digital-only games.

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@Romangelo

ur not paying for the games ur paying for the service. now if they put up all the epic games sony have had on all their platforms and have it work like netflix but for games then it sure ashell would be worth it. depending on the price ofcourse

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No it won't because they would have turned gaming into a service instead of hobby.

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@rannoni @Romangelo Sega channel that's what I'm talking about....I would to have games always available but i can see how that may be tricky from contracts standpoint.

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@rannoni @Romangelo by the gods finally a guy who actually knows what he's/she's talking about thank you rannoni.

i'm guessing well hopefully anyway to expand the ps+ base is to have gaikai free for plus users obvious decision by sony to make more money. now if only all of america has bandwitch up 50 to 100mbps that would be great. lets hope by 2015 fiber wire will be installed everywhere in america.


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@Romangelo Uhm... You seem to forget all the MMORPG gamers. LoL, for example, cannot be bought at a retail store, but is provided as a downloadable install with micro-transactions. The word 'cloud gaming' is very broad and can mean almost anything in regards to on-line play, however games that are free to play on-line with micro-transactions have been part of the 'cloud gaming' scene from the beginning. Nevertheless, there shall always be something 'downloaded' when cloud gaming. Be it cache, install file, an add-on to something else, etc.

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