What will change that? Them having to fail? Not be market leader? Cuz those are the only reasons why I see people keep saying that.
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Playstation Now streaming subscription 12 month for $59.99 on Amazon (US) [Deal over]
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They'd basically need to shift their entire game design philosophy in my opinion.
Yes, how else would he be playing far cry and sekiro right now lol
I don't know myself since I just resubscribed (I'll find out tonight), but either you or Sangetsu-II are wrong since you're saying conflicting things.
Regarding other users using PS NOW on a Primary console it does work however I seem to recall it being like this for my setup.
I think my son can't run and select titles from the PS NOW app selection itself but any games that I, as the primary PS NOW paying account, add to my games list (and thus appear in the main PS4 UI games list) he can play. I think. He definitely plays PS NOW games on his account, that was the reason I subbed for a year at £54.99 last November, I just remember it being not as straightforward.
I think my son can't run and select titles from the PS NOW app selection itself but any games that I, as the primary PS NOW paying account, add to my games list (and thus appear in the main PS4 UI games list) he can play. I think. He definitely plays PS NOW games on his account, that was the reason I subbed for a year at £54.99 last November, I just remember it being not as straightforward.
As a consumer, I have a vested interest in the services and products I enjoy being part of a sustainable business model. GamePass has yet to actually prove itself in the long term.
Huh? Like...what?
So, did you wait to buy a PS3 until it was making money? I'm not sure I get what you're saying here.
You're worried about Sony's bottom line? Or are you saying that you don't want first party titles there because you believe it will lead to them getting rid of PSNow if it doesn't make them enough money?
I'm saying I'm going to be playing Spider-man 2 and God of War 2 and Horizon 2 in the next few years because their huge budgets were justified by their huge sales. Meanwhile a service like Netflix cancelled its entire slate of high quality Marvel shows for reasons, and we have yet to see if revenue from GP will justify the development costs of something like Halo Infinite. At this point MS putting all their games on GP day one is a panic move based on how poorly their sales have gone this gen (and the generally poor quality of their first party output). This being the "future of gaming" is a totally open question right now, not a foregone conclusion like a lot of people want to assume.
Ok. But right now I'm not sure why that means you can't want/expect that kind of value being added to a service.
Let me know man, because we tried this with steep and it wouldn't let him. Maybe I fucked up sending the download to his console
Which is which guys? I'm tempted to get this only if downloaded games are shareable to other users within the same PS4.
QWARK!!!!!
Have things changed? What's the verdict, i didn't have a chance to test this again last night with my younger brother.
Sorry, I didn't have time to test it last night. I did a little research though, and at one point the subscribed user had to actually start the game on that system, then any sub users could use it, allegedly. Not sure if that's still true or if it ever was.
Also, the deal is long gone. Sorry poklane.
There's no way this was going to be the new official price unless Sony had no plans to improve the service.
It was a deal. Probably an indirect marketing, Sony peaking out and saying "hey guys, we already have a cloud streaming service!"
Their price will adjust according to competitor's price. Doubt it'll drop as I expect everyone else to go $10/month price point.
this would make total sense............i never launched steep.....................
hmmm....you know Disney are coming out with their own streaming service yeah?
You think Netflix cancelled those shows because....reasons?
Ok, so I tried it out tonight. Everything works like you would expect a normal digital PS4 game to work. A secondary user can stream or play a downloaded game on the system that the subscriber has set as primary. The only limitation that I could find is that the secondary cannot trigger the download, the subscriber has to do that in the PS Now app. But the secondary can access the PS Now app and stream anything or play anything that's already downloaded. I'm not sure if it was different before, but it seems to be pretty flexible now.
Played around with it tonight and was pretty impressed, played some Tokyo Jungle, Ni No Kuni, and Shadow of the Beast. Everything worked really well. It didn't look quite as good as if I was playing natively, but no artifacting and I didn't notice any latency at all. There was about 1 second where the sound cut out, but that was really it.
One thing that kind of annoys me though is holes in the library. They have Dead Space 3, but not 1 and 2. Same with Resistance 3, but not 1 and 2. I'm not going to start on the third one. Hopefully they bring those back at some point.
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Thanks for confirming. I''ve tried the streaming two years ago and was getting decent speeds and very little latency but I'm really interested in the download feature thus wanted to know if the games can be shared. Thanks also for checking if the streaming works with other users. That's great news for me.
I really hate how Amazon has random deals like this where they don't tell you how long it's going to last
Sounds good, sounds like I need to start initiating the games before hand. Thanks for the confirmation. Time to change my gameplan for my younger brother.
I gave the trial a go, but overall didn't feel the service was worth it in its current state, at least in my experience. The latency was only a little bit worse than the Project Stream beta, but one thing I pretty much never experienced during Project Stream was random slowdown and frame stuttering. It didn't happen with every game, but with some of the more demanding titles it got so bad it was literally making me feel ill (like playing FFXV on base PS4).
Also, the games take literally 2-5 minutes to start up each time, lol. It's like "Netflix: Windows XP Edition".
Sony may have been first to the game, but they don't yet have the server power of Google. With some more investment this could probably be a great service in the future. But it doesn't feel fully "there" and saleable to me right now.
Also, the games take literally 2-5 minutes to start up each time, lol. It's like "Netflix: Windows XP Edition".
Sony may have been first to the game, but they don't yet have the server power of Google. With some more investment this could probably be a great service in the future. But it doesn't feel fully "there" and saleable to me right now.
You mean the same Disney streaming service that's going to be aimed entirely at kids and families, which means no mature content whatsoever? Why is it so hard for some people to realise that Netflix cancelled the Marvel shows because they weren't popular enough to justify how expensive they were?
Don't mean to bump a dead thread, but I got in on this and I'm mostly pleased. I played a bunch of MK 11 (which I'd never really buy) and had a good time, apart from a few issues with loading/freezing, I was able to forget about the fact I wasn't playing locally.
Attempting the same on PC (I'd played on PS4 previously) didn't yield quite the same experience. While the image quality was great, there was more noticeable lag. Enough to play a slower game, but not MK. I'll try wiring the PC to see if that helps with latency.
Attempting the same on PC (I'd played on PS4 previously) didn't yield quite the same experience. While the image quality was great, there was more noticeable lag. Enough to play a slower game, but not MK. I'll try wiring the PC to see if that helps with latency.
Probably tomorrow or wednesday. The PS Now games are always announced one week after the PS+ ones.