Sony To Use Gaikai To Nickle And Dime PS3 Games

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We should have realized that gaming is going to be in digital only format in the future with the rise in native storage space and the cloud. This has it's downsides mind you (collectors editions cool pack ins) but the overall potential is immense even if it means the downfall of the new/used game market.
 

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We should have realized that gaming is going to be in digital only format in the future with the rise in native storage space and the cloud. This has it's downsides mind you (collectors editions cool pack ins) but the overall potential is immense even if it means the downfall of the new/used game market.

Yep. Steam, App Store and Google Play already use this format so there's no reason why console video games shouldn't also adopt this model except to preserve their relationship with game retailers like GameStop, etc. From a publishers perspective, they have everything to gain and nothing to lose (except maybe upsetting die hard video game collectors).

If this happens, questions about backwards compatibility become a little bit less of an issue.
 

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We should have realized that gaming is going to be in digital only format in the future with the rise in native storage space and the cloud. This has it's downsides mind you (collectors editions cool pack ins) but the overall potential is immense even if it means the downfall of the new/used game market.
the used games market is irrelevant when games are so cheap to acquire. I just got the new Devil May Cry for $15...

thats 75% off and the game JUST CAME OUT.
 

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:to: @ my Internet bill

How many of y'all have unlimited bandwidth available to you?
 

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the used games market is irrelevant when games are so cheap to acquire. I just got the new Devil May Cry for $15...

thats 75% off and the game JUST CAME OUT.

Not true, even with that Gamestop still makes 75% of its money of used games, systems and accesories, some are easier to get than others.
 

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Sony is clearly thinking ahead with this one. Trying to secure the streaming videogame game for the future. I see you Kaz.... :scheme:
@Liquid ....the digitial distribution game is coming big time. That is what this is about. They aint slick.

Glad I don't have to get rid of my ps3s now.

i think we need to worry about BC Access of all of our DD games before we go into that, i was just about to buy Persona 3 FES but it will not be playable next gen.
 
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Before the big unveil of both consoles, there needs to be a vbookie thread on the price of both systems.
 

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I like the whole idea of cloud gaming or booting shyt up from the hard drive. How many times you just not feel like moving from your dope gaming chair, then realize you didn't have NBA 2K in your system like you thought? :comeon:
 
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