You are looking at this from the perspective of someone living in a developed country with a fast broadband connection, but the global gaming market is much mor

You are looking at this from the perspective of someone living in a developed country with a fast broadband connection, but the global gaming market is much more diverse and complicated than that. Sony has been making attempts to push PlayStation Now on to consumers in North America with very mixed reviews. The idea of streaming games directly from the cloud to your Samsung smart TV sounds really appealing on paper, but broadband speeds just aren't there yet to push this out to a global audience. One must also take into account that most people in developing countries don't have access to a credit card required to pay a monthly subscription fee. That is why the "big game companies" will keep on shipping hardware until the remaining pieces of the puzzle are in place.