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by voltagex_ 4614 days ago
It does matter this time around because there's no direct backwards compatibility for older games.
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Sony will start streaming eventually. It would be fantastic if they implemented a disc matching policy, allowing you to stream a game with the disc in the drive. Perfect backward compatibility with no software support necessary.
This is not going to work anywhere except the continental US due to latency, unless they manage to provision servers everywhere (to the cloud!)
US speeds are not great compared to some places. But let's see where things are in 5 years. Could be much better. Doesn't matter for me. I stopped buying anything from Sony when they removed OtherOS.