Sony acquisition last year of the cloud-gaming company Gaikai can be reflected in a big way in the next PlayStation 4.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources in the internal reports that Sony's console gaming news, expected to debut Wednesday at an event in Manhattan, will allow people to play games streaming in real time on the report says flows that involve Internet.The games designed for the console out, the PlayStation 3. This could be an effort to deal with backward compatibility: last month, the Journal reported that for the PS4, Sony would "probably" go with chips from Advanced Micro Devices, rather than the Sony-Toshiba-IBM-developed chip cell that is in the PS3 - a move that could cause compatibility issues with current games. The new report from the WSJ says that the PS4 will be able to accommodate new games stored on optical disks. It is not clear if new games will be broadcast as well.
Streaming Sony could also help to go at least some way to resolve the popularity of simple games on smartphones and other devices. As CNET Rich Brown mentioned when Sony bought Gaikai, the company acquired seems to offer a potential for more upscale for mobile games: "Imagine playing a PlayStation heart ... [Game] on your console, then choose the game exactly where you left off on your phone or tablet, "he wrote.
Sony announced Gaikai agreement in July of last year. The cloud service allows streaming of games beefier than those commonly played on iPhones and other (Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and so on). Co-founder David Perry told CNET that back in 2010 the service was a bit like arcades back in the day: "You want to play the latest machines, but they were $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 So you stuck your quarters inches. "Gaikai created data centers designed to work with any modern game-day, all settings, and then focused on flow pipeline to the end user.
The Journal said he did not know how Sony could charge for waterways.
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