Gadgetory

this is sam byford with the verge one of the most ambitious promises sony is maybe the playstation flores cloud streaming essentially it's playing video games over the internet just by watching a movie on Netflix so no need for a disk or download sony make that a reality today at CES 2014 with the announcement of playstation now which allows ps3 games to be played on hurting from a ps4 to a PS vita to even TVs and smartphones the goal of PlayStation now is pretty much game streaming on any screen without a set-top box or console well that's great in theory has it actually going to work PlayStation now is Sony solution to the fact that you can't run PlayStation 3 games on the PlayStation 4 because the two systems have mercy different hardware it's too difficult to the newer console to emulate its predecessor Sony's constructing massive data centers filled with ps3 hardware and actually render your games before their beam straight to your screen across the internet this sounds like the stuff of science fiction or at least the country with a more robust broadband infrastructure in the US the Sony's putting PlayStation now and to be to this month and plans to launch a service and pull this summer the company certainly puts on a good demo at CES the games I played on PlayStation now had good image quality and only a slight amount of latency but I don't think would bother most people but there are still a lot of questions Sony's not prepared to answer it's only wouldn't tell me how close we were to the server know how many it plans to deploy when PlayStation now launches for now it's an impressive proof of concept and Sony still has a look proof