PlayStation Now on PC feels like an evolution for console gaming

I’m running around a mythical city as Kratos, the god of war, but I’m not using a PlayStation console. This is strange.

You no longer need to purchase PlayStation hardware to play a number of first-party Sony games — well, at least the older ones. The publisher released its PS Now game-streaming service on PC earlier this week, and that means you can boot up a number of PS3 classics on a PC running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. I’ve given the experience a try. It works, and it seems like a major step toward a different future for the way gaming platforms work. It also indicates that some other PlayStation services, like the TV-streaming program PS Vue, could come to Windows PC soon as well.