With the news movement of Sony you will no longer have to buy a PlayStation 4 to play gamea of the platform: Yes Sony announced today that it will offer PS4 game titles through the PlayStation Now service. This means, you will be able to play games of PS4 to your PC.
If you do not know PlayStation Now is a cloud service that costs $ 20 per month and offers streaming games, just does Netflix with videos. The service also works from PS4 and from your computer.
The service until now only offered PS3 games, which was quite convenient for game titles that had compatibility issues with the new console PS4 but also the Xbox One platform.
For example, suppose you have an Xbox One console but want to play PS4 games, such as Horizon Zero Dawn or Uncharted 4. Now with 20 dollars you can play the game on your PC. Sure, it will not be the same as playing it with a real console.
For Sony, that means it will be able to have more players who today may have no other way to play its games and possibly force some of them to eventually buy the PlayStation.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has a slightly different approach. The company recently announced a $ 10 dollar service called Game Pass and allows users to download games on their consoles instead of streaming out of the cloud.
At the moment, we do not know much about PS4 games on PlayStation Now, such as what resolution to support, or what games Sony will release.