Sony buys Gaikai: PS1, PS2 and PS3 games from the clouds for Vita soon?

Perhaps this is why Sony has been holding back on PS One compatibility for the Vita. With the confirmed acquisition on cloud-streaming-games-service Gaikai for lots of dollars, Sony can now stream huge libraries of games in, what I hope, will be a subcription-based PlayStation Unlimited offering.

I think more gamers would happily pay £6.99 a month for a service with access to huge amounts of PS1, PS2 and even PS3 games, rather than dropping the odd £6.99 every few months when another PSone game struggles onto the PSN store. Sony rakes in more cash, older games get more exposure and Sony has a mighty big stick to sell cheap(ish) PS3s with a subscription and, maybe, the same for PS Vita later on.

I'm sure Sony will still sell standalone PSOne games on Vita, very soon apparently, but this cloud service would be a huge opportunity for Sony to offer its back catalogue without all the fuss of firmware upgrades for piddling compatibility fixes and so on. That could also expand to Sony Xperia Phones and those funny tablets, but probably will soon be on iOS and other Android devices as an app to open up a huge potential market.