The Consumer Electronics Show is a place for major tech companies to unveil some of their most promising innovations for the New Year. Sony held it's portion of the conference on Monday where it took the time to unveil the PlayStation Now, an all new game streaming service that will provide users with the chance to play PlayStation games across various hardware and directly on other non-gaming platforms.
According to IGN, Sony will accomplish this new game-streaming service with the help of Gaikai, the company Sony purchased for $380 back in the summer of 2012. The idea behind PlayStation Now is simple, you'll no longer need to keep a PlayStation One, PlayStation 2 or PlayStation 3 around the house in case you feel the insatiable urge to go back to one of your favorite older games. PlayStation Now will eliminate the need for old console hardware by allowing streaming of classics from those systems onto not only the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, but televisions, tablets and smartphones as well.
So far there isn't much word on which games will be available at the launch of the PlayStation Now network. However, Sony's Andrew House promised two things. One, that Naughty Dog's "The Last of Us" will be among the titles available to play without a PlayStation 3 - and two, that many more games will be available as time goes on.
Right now the public is still waiting on further details about the PlayStation Now service. However, in the meantime IGN notes that people can expect a closed beta of the service to begin later on this month. Following the beta, the full service should be rolling out to PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and other electronic devices sometime this summer.
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