With Sony's new move, you no longer have to buy a PlayStation 4 to play platform games: Yes Sony today announced that it will offer PS4 game titles through PlayStation Now. This means that you will be able to play PS4 games on your PC.
If you don't know PlayStation Now is a cloud service that costs $20 a month and offers game streaming, which is exactly what it does Netflix to video. The service works from both your PS4 and PC.
The service has so far offered only PS3 games, which was quite handy for game titles that had a compatibility problem with the new PS4 console and the Xbox One platform.
For example, let's say you have an Xbox One console, but you want to play PS4 exclusive games like Horizon Zero Dawn or Uncharted 4. Now for $20 you can play the game on your PC. Sure, it won't be the same as playing it with one real console.
For Sony, this means that there may be more players who may not have any other way to play games today, and possibly force some of them to buy the PlayStation.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has a slightly different approach. THE company recently announced a $10 service called Game Pass that lets users download games to their consoles, rather than streaming them from 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.
