In an interview with EDGE Online, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s CEO Jim Ryan has explained the Gaikai situation, stating that it will launch at first in North America in 2014 on PS4, before heading to Vita and even PS3.
He said, speaking about why Gaikai wasn’t talked about during Sony’s Gamescom conference:
Yeah sure and I’ll tell you why is wasn’t touched upon last night. So the plan is to begin with North America next year and the plan is to provide a streaming service that will allow for PS3 content initially to be streamed to firstly PS4 then PS Vita and then PS3.
Ryan went on to say “that will happen in 2014 in North America initially” before highlighting the poor broadband speeds in Europe, which he says is “on the roadmap” for Gaikai, though they don’t quite have a timeline for it yet. Since Gamescom is for primarily the European audience, that’s why it wasn’t mentioned during the conference.
He followed up that “there’s just a few bumps along the road that need to be ironed out” in regards to the European launch and that while it’ll be “early-ish” 2014 for the US, he has “nothing to say yet” on a date for Europe.
It’s a great interview in full, and he discusses Sony’s plan for “saving” the Vita, as well as the fun they had at Microsoft’s expense during the show.
Kevling
So in the Gamescom event, they announced they were partnering with European Broadband providers with tailored Ps4 packages, but at the same time, European broadband is a bit too rubbish for Gaikai?
Hmmm…
On another note, I’m personally disappointed that Europe isn’t even on the radar for any of this yet, especially as the idea of Gaikai based backwards compatibility was the only way I could get the PS4 purchase past the wife!
beeje13
What about the Game demos? I thought they were streamed 60 minute full game trials on PS4?
ABlokeCalledDaz
A little bit off the topic here but in the interview Jim says ‘by the way, if you want to play Battlefield on a next gen console then the only one you can do it on is PS4.’
Have I missed something here, other than no sold release date for the system, BF4 is coming to the Xbone, isn’t it?
Forging Honesty
US population around 315 million
UK population around 65 million
Ireland about 5
Germany about about 83
France about 68
Italy about 62
Spain population about 49
US is easy to reach market and you have to go through a lot more countries to get the same amount of consumers as the US. Also I live in the US and yeah 5mbps is average but almost everybody who has access to a computer has 5mbps or a lot better. Must be nice to have over 100 though! :)