Ichinisan
Lifer
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Playstation Now does that. It's why Sony acquired OnLive. Various Smart TVs and Blu-Ray players used to allow you to pair a DualShock 4 controller and play subscription PS3/PS4 games from the streaming service. I believe Sony recently killed compatibility for most TVs and Blu-Ray players. Not sure if the PS3 even works as a client anymore.High-speed Internet has only been widely available for the last few years. PS4, XBox, and the #1 gaming system- PHONES, are all preferring streaming content now. I work in an IT firm partnered with Microsoft and the inside rumor is MS is building a cloud gaming system- essentially a dumb client that remotes into a high-end server and the game plays remotely while streaming video back to you. Steam already made something similar (but it wasn't ready for primetime).
Physical media is dead. It's just not needed anymore.
That would have been a cool way to enable PS3 compatibility for PS4. Insert a PS3 game disc into your PS4 to enable streaming that specific PS3 game live from Sony's servers. Would be nice.