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According to GameBlog, Gaikai has been sending out press invites to an E3 event that all but confirms a streaming partnership with a console manufacturer.

?Gaikai has major announcements for E3,? says a translation of the page, ?which has the potential to change the future of video game, the game consoles and the way in which we play.?

Yesterday we ran an article speculating that Sony were planning to introduce streaming for ? possibly ? games or movies, and the above invite and text certainly seems to connect with that.

Source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2012/05/25/gaikais-e3-invite-all-but-confirms-ps3-streaming-partnership/

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Hope they give out a free rental or two a month for PS+ users, I pay ?8 a month for 2 rentals a month atm. If they do I'm all over this.

Some industry guys

By the way, if you don't have a PS+ subscription, now is the time to get one. For real. Just get 3 months if you aren't sure. Trust me.

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If there's enough warnings before E3 to get onboard something, consider it. ?#PSPlus?

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This could get interesting. Although everyone says game streaming sucks, I personally love it the idea behind it.

The upgrade time between console upgrades would distance even more.

I don't see Sony allowing Gaikai allowing games to be better looking then PS3 games, for two reasons.

1) When a streaming service on a console starts besting visuals then games made specifically for that console, then it makes that console look pretty weak. Sony's done some heavy duty PR to make the PS3 seem uber-powerful, I doubt they'd want a third-party service to undermine that.

2) It'll slow down sales of the PS4. Bar perhaps a new controller or game-changing service, why do people buy new consoles? Because the games on the new consoles look absolutely amazing. When the 360 launched, if Sony all of a sudden turned around and said "hey guys guess what? pay ?5.99 a month and we'll let you stream games - for free or small cost - on the PS2 with almost next-gen visuals" 360 adoption rate would have been significantly reduced, as it's only saving grace would now be the revamped XBL. Same thing will happen with PS4 if Gaikai starts offering better looking games then the PS3 has to offer.

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Quite a few people are speculating that it will be for playing back catalogue of PS1/PS2 games rather than PC versions.

...seriously? That could be a pretty big game changer. It'd allow for backwards compatibility on the PS4, too, if they did the same thing with PS3 games (which is easy enough, if they can also do this with PS1/2 games).

I'd be well excited about the possibilities of this!

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