Play Sony exclusives on your Samsung TV

when did they confirm that ps5 will be 'always online'

Sony didn't confirm the PS5 would be 'always online', nor did I post that...read my post again. In fact, I posted a few times in the thread, and I have been saying the exact opposite.

Above, I did say: "Sony designs the PS5 as online only is the day I don't buy that console". It's an expression and I fear you misunderstood that line.

If you did not misunderstand, based on my posts where I said we don't know what will happen, and the post above...Why are you quoting me?

It's the anti PS fanboys that are insinuating that PSNow's mere existence sets in stone PS5's online only status. It's clear we don't know what will happen, it's just a sad "what if" scenario cooked up by upset anti-Sony fanboys because they are desperate and hoping that day comes because they dislike Sony and they would enjoy watching the company go down in flames.

tl;dr?

Sony didn't confirm that at all about the PS5 nor would they confirm that at all at this point in time while dealing with a young PS4. The fanboys are playing 'make believe'.

There go the exclusives...

Wow, that was incredibly insightful, lol. Good shot!

i was confused. thanks for clearing that up.

It's all good. :) Glad it all got figured out.

I have a Sony TV.... lol

Ah well I don't live in either of those countries anyways. Just thought it was funny,

We all know what happened to OnLive...

wouldnt mind paying 20 bucks a month for when Ps4 games are available on the service. might not need to buy a ps4 now.

Wait... Something just dawned on me, is this going to work on Sony smart TV's also or just Samsung? Because if it's only Samsung then wat.....

Wow. The amount of reaching by some people in this thread lol

It's like they forget the PS4 is selling like hotcakes.

and?

This is good. Sony should force your TV.

@nyadc:

Preaching the end of hardware for the company that is selling the most (and has sold the most home consoles so far) and breaking records (well, they were breaking records, not sure how things fare currently) is a bit silly.

I'm guessing streaming and/or a Origin/Steam-like service will be the future for each of these companies, however it does not seem feasible that will happen in the next 5 years. Unless ISPs, globally (or at least in Europe+NA+Asia), up their services so that users can enjoy streaming with minimum issues. Cutting your own market doesn't sound like a smart business move, at all.

Sony is turning the PlayStation 4 into the Xbox One so to speak, or at least what it was going to be to some degree, people may not be able to see it but it's slowly happening as that is most likely exactly what Sony was going to do with the PlayStation 4 as well before Microsoft got hit with the backlash.

Introducing payed MP, subscription services, a game streaming service, TV services etc... Everything they are currently doing appears to be heading in that direction. The difference between Sony and Microsoft though is simply one thing, Microsoft dropped a bomb introducing all of this stuff at launch and it freaked people out, Sony on the other hand is doing it gradually, warming people up to these things so by the time it does turn into exactly that, everyone will be acclimatized to it so no one freaks out.

This video is a perfect explanation of what is happening, Microsoft and the Xbox One were the boiling water, Sony is the water gradually heating up to a boil.

@aroxx_ab Onlive was a weak, poorly implemented service which was also well ahead of its time, it was doomed to fail from the start

The term you're looking for is 'Classical Conditioning' or 'Market Conditioning'. This is a gentle nudge at the market by Sony to swing the market around to Streaming games services.

MS tried to go in with a sledgehammer and tell the consumers what their getting, whether they like it or not. That's definitely a bad approach to change. Besides this is not the same thing as MS tried with the Xbox One, that was an aggressive attempt at killing the second hand market stone dead and to stop anyone else having a say over the Xbox games sector. Online streaming is something altogether different, even though the impact on the second hand market would ultimately be the same.

Sony are being far more subtle with this. Not only are they going regional (US and Canada first), they are going with a rival electronics company, this seems very strange but it may be as simple as there a far more Samsung TV's in households. This is stage one for the open market and merely a toe getting dipped in the water to test the temperature. If it's successful you can guarantee streaming games will be pushed a lot more to replace the next generation of consoles, at the very least it will be a parallel service with the next set of physical consoles. If it really kicks off we may even see it pushing PS4 titles before the end of this generation and if that happens MS will launch the upcoming(?) Xbox service as well.

I'll also add that, rumors aside, we have no real idea of what Nintendo's NX is either.

Then the games are no longer Sony exclusives.