Gaikai Website Hints At Triple-A PS3 Titles Heading To Sony's Cloud Service

I will not be supporting cloud gaming. It is nothing more than a way of combating used game sales and maxing profit margins by not having to produce/ship a physical disc. I strongly urge everyone, for the sake of video gaming as we know it, DO NOT support this initiative.

Used game sales do nothing for the developers of those games but they do maximize profit margins for those vendors of used games. Seeing the wild success of Netflix, there is potential for this streaming service, as long as network bandwidth allows for smooth gameplay.

Thanks for the thumbs down, I just wanted to say you are absolutely clueless. Comparing Netflix to Gaikai PS3 streaming is completely different. You really think that they are going to let you stream a $59.99 game for a small monthly fee aka Netflix? They are going to charge you $59.99, full price, for the ability to stream a game off their servers. You will not actually own this game, you are just paying for the privilege of playing it. Furthermore, you are going to be dealing with lag and poor resolution due to the compression used to stream e.g. OnLive. You are misinformed on this topic. Do some research and check back.

I like the ability to have several games on my console without needing to switch discs just saying.

I think cloud gaming has a number of marketing and technical issues as well, but it might not be so bad in all situations. The (only) advantage of cloud gaming is that the hardware costs of playing a game are almost entirely shifted from the gamer to the streaming service. If a cloud gaming company can charge current prices for unlimited access to a game, then the consumer would overall have to spend less to play a game, counting the price of a computer or console.

However, technical concerns may conspire against this. Lag can only really be dealt with by placing servers all over the place, even assuming they are infinitely powerful. Even if that is overall more efficient than just having everyone buy a powerful PC, and wouldn't affect the price of games, network limitations in streaming the content would likely take many years to resolve considering how ISPs operate.

I'd say a judgement on cloud gaming depends on where cloud computing goes. So long as people don't just use extremely cheap dumb terminals, and demand computers powerful enough to execute programs locally, then cloud gaming will likely go nowhere.

Also, not everyone cares about abstract concerns like ownership of a game. If you can ensure access to a game at any time (or at least 99.99% of the time) forever, then I doubt anyone would care to wonder if they own a game, or a license to a game. If that weren't true, Steam would never have succeeded.