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If streaming is the future why aren't more people using psnow?
- Thread starter asmith906
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Internet is shit in the US (biggest market for video games) and is capped by greedy companies like Time Warner. If we had SK or Japan tier internet we'd be living in the future literally right now.
The idea is streaming will expand to a larger audience because it is easily accessible with trade-offs that a larger audience won't care much about.
The people that are spending $400 on a console in the first place is not this audience.
(Not to suggest there is no overlap between these audiences. How much of an overlap remains to be seen.)
The people that are spending $400 on a console in the first place is not this audience.
(Not to suggest there is no overlap between these audiences. How much of an overlap remains to be seen.)
Lmao.
So if psnow doesnt work because now is not the future, How about sony names the next one ps future?
It would certainly help if games weren't regularly over 100GB these days, then people might actually be able to play them before they have to pay for another month of service.
Because Sony isn't treating it as a priority. Recent games are few and far between on the service, whereas Project Stream came out swinging with the newly released Assassin's Creed Odyssey
I should try PSNow. I keep meaning to, I just keep forgetting. Seems like a good service, I love Game Pass, so I should try this too.
I'm at the end of a week long trial and for me there just isn't enough to justify $20 a month (yes I know there are other plans for cheaper but still).
shitloads of people use PS Now and it's not even the strongest streaming service available (in terms of consistency, latency, and image quality), so I've got absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Streaming stands to explode once it's actually an outward focus for these companies. You're dismissing new tech because your friends aren't talking about the prototype, and that's just silly.
Streaming stands to explode once it's actually an outward focus for these companies. You're dismissing new tech because your friends aren't talking about the prototype, and that's just silly.
that's you, right now
see spaceballs on how the future works.
but in general it's regarded as not so good, but i'm sure some games play well enough
but in general it's regarded as not so good, but i'm sure some games play well enough
I'd love to give it a try here in Taiwan since Internet is cheap, fast, and reliable here (just did a speed test & I got 6ms ping, 69MBps DL, 10.5MBps UL on my plan which is about $14 USD/month and even the 300MBps plans are pretty cheap), but Taiwan isn't one of the supported countries.
Because even with good internet speed there are still sacrifices. Unlike netflix which looks "good enough" for most people, streaming games still have lag and don't look as good as local. That said, the future will eventually catch up. But PSNow may or may not lead that charge.
I'm not sure if that means too much, when there aren't many other successful examples out there.
Nail on the head. Sony's current implementation is very poor. MS's xCloud has some ai powered, prediction algorithms that supposedly help with latency. But the real truth is that it's the "future". It's not "today" as most countries have too poor of an infrastructure to support it.
Perhaps 5G will be the gateway.
Because PS Now is not a good streaming service in my experience, it's ludicrously slow to start games, the image quality is awful and the lag is intolerable. Other streaming services come with a little more hope attached, but we'll have to see how they fare when they scale up.
