PlayStation Now

Debuting at this year’s Consumers Electronic Show was Sony’s PlayStation now.

So what’s special about this unveil?  Well in the simplest terms it’s a service that allows you to stream PlayStation games to your PlayStation devices (plural).   Using Gaikai’s advanced cloud technology you can play games instantly on multiple devices like the PS4, PS3, PlayStation Vita, and soon tablets, smartphones and other Internet devices.  Similar in the way you would stream TV, movies and music. 

Sony promises to play the most updated version of your game in the cloud, and you can log in from anywhere.  

The service is set to be released in full, this coming summer; with gamers having even more reason to rejoice, now that the cloud technology has made PlayStation backwards compatible, so you can play PS3 Games, and PS2 games on the new console.  Now according to Sony’s Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House the slogan is “ introduce the world of PlayStation to a world of non-console owners”.  So playing the PlayStation 3 games on a Tablet and a Vita system was emphasized and was demonstrated at their CES booth.

Ok that was the sales pitch from CES, and its won everyone over, so here are negative points coming out of CES to balance things out.  The cost for the service has not been mentioned, as of yet.  The Launch will only be in North America, PAL territories like Europe have more complicated broadband provisions and connection speeds, it will take a year as best case scenario before a smooth rollout can take place.

 And finally in the real world you can’t lock in consistent Internet speeds, there might be concern there, and how will it affect buying local disc based or digital version. We will find out as we near summer.