Editing Sony Interactive Entertainment (section)

==PlayStation Now and Gaikai==
[[File:PlayStation Now.svg|thumb|200px|PlayStation Now Logo.]]
In July 2012, {{Nihongo|'''Gaikai'''|外海|lit. "open sea"}} was brought by Sony Computer Entertainment for US$380 Million. Before SCE brought the company, it was a start-up company and it made partnerships with from numerous companies to stream high-end video games. As it was brought, SCE decided to make the next generation of Remote Play, which is transmit video and audio output to the PSP and the PSVita, by streaming all PlayStation 4 Games to the PS Vita. With the PS4 incompatible with all PS1, PS2 and PS3 games, SCE announced that they are working with Gaikai to emulate all PS1, PS2, and PS3 games to the PlayStation 4. On 7 January 2014, during Sony's Keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, they announced PlayStation Now months after Gaikai was brought. PlayStation Now is a service that allows players to play PS3 games on the PlayStation 4, PS Vita, most Sony TVs, Smartphones and Tablets through a DualShock 3 or the controls supplied from the PS4, PS Vita and PS3. A closed beta was opened on 28 January 2014 on the PS3 along with the PS4 closed beta by 20 May 2014 and an Open beta will be opened by 31 July 2014 in the United States and Canada and it will offer up to 100+ games from first and third party gaming publishers, including SEGA. European PlayStation customers may get it by 2015. ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog CD|Sonic CD]]'' was part of the 100 games released at the North American Open Beta launch becoming the first ''Sonic'' game to be on PlayStation Now.

The PS Now service users a modified PS3 hardware in their data centers with the power of eight PS3s into a single motherboard within a slimline server cabinet, which can reduce electricity costs, and reduce space. Players are required to have up to at least 5 Mb/s of internet in order to use.<ref>http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/171957-ps4s-gakai-game-streaming-service-to-launch-in-2014-microsoft-mum-on-retaliation</ref>