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[comshoplesce]

windows 10 only?

yay

Here are the recommended specs for running PS Now on your PC:

Windows 7 (SP1), 8.1 or 10
3.5 GHz Intel Core i3 or 3.8 GHz AMD A10 or faster
300 MB or more; 2 GB or more of RAM
Sound card; USB port

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

Time to go back to CRT to help with all that lag.

 

[mishakoz]

Playstation is doing a lot of good work these days. $10 increase on PSplus aside, Im really happy with the focus and support that wasnt around during the PS3 days.

Unfortunately PSnow doesnt include a lot of games I want to play, but its nice that Sony seems to be on top of everything.

 

[carlsojo]

You won't be able to do that right now. The only Atlus game on the service currently is Catherine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Now_games

TBH this is what I really want to play on PSNow.

 

[renzollo]

This is neat, but most of the PS Now games I'd want to play (DeS, Killzone, Resitance) are too latency-sensitive to be viable for the PS Now implementation on PS4 when I've tested it. The only remote gaming service I've tested that had acceptable performance in that regard is the Shield service (can't remember what it's called now), and I assumed that was because Nvidia can write direct pipelines from network to the GPU that are faster than a third party Windows application would be capable of. Still, if you like games that aren't latency sensitive it's pretty cool.

 

[KZObsessed]

I hope Sony get everything up on PS Now eventually. Or at least everything not held back by licensing issues.

PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3, Vita and PS4 libraries streamed to any device would be godly.

 

[Azerth]

do i have to use the ds4 with psnow or can i use an xbox controller

 

[xzeldax3]

I am interested to see how the lag is.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Damn the news is coming out like a duct taped dam.

Also, this thread calls for the return of the Bingo Board of old. I miss that bingo board.

 

[Linkyn]

I have to admit, this is pretty sweet. The USB adaptor is a real game changer.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Fuck. Yes.

My PS4 will now officially be useless. No need to have it set up anymore. No need to constantly switch my ethernet cable every time I switch between using the PC and playing a PS Now game. Good times coming.

The bad news is that the dream of having PS4 games come to the service at some point is an even more distant fantasy now. But oh well. That PS3 library still mighty strong and will keep growing. Hope they put PS2 and PS1 games on the service too a some point.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Only one DS4 per adapter? What year is it?

 

[Googledotcom666]

really weak troll attempt

You mean a PS3

I'm sure in time PS4 games might make it on though!

 

[MegaMelon]

Well that's pretty cool, but... kind of defeats the purpose of consoles now if all their exclusives end up being available on PC. At least this isn't exactly like Microsoft's "Play Anywhere" (or whatever it's called) feature in that this is a subscription-based streaming service, and only the PlayStation 3's library too.

I don't want to sound petty or greedy, but I hope that the PlayStation 4's library doesn't ever (at least not anytime soon) end up on PlayStation Now, because I'm a console guy and I wouldn't the main reason for owning a PlayStation to kind of be, well, gone.

I'll at least take comfort in knowing that my friends who don't have a PS3 can try out its exclusives now, I suppose.

But petty is exactly what you're being. Even if ps4 games were to come to psnow, why would that stop you from sticking to the ps4 as you're a console guy? Not that it'll happen in the way you're thinking anyways but still.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I am interested to see how the lag is.

Non existent as long as you have an ok connection. Not even a great one. Just decent and you won't be able to perceive any lag. As long as you go with a wired connection that is. Flawless wired, hit and miss wifi. Sadly that's why I don't use the service on Vita. But yeah I can tell no difference between playing a game locally with my wired connection on PS4.

 

[LCGeek]

Well that's pretty cool, but... kind of defeats the purpose of consoles now if all their exclusives end up being available on PC. At least this isn't exactly like Microsoft's "Play Anywhere" (or whatever it's called) feature in that this is a subscription-based streaming service, and only the PlayStation 3's library too.

No it doesn't people like the convenience factor of consoles, pcs will never offer the same and I say this being pc power users with lots of it. If you're saying what you're saying the only reason your console now is because your forced too. This isn't dumb for sony either I see no reason why they should placate only one crowd while ignoring the profit of the pc platform. They can do both well and considering most 3rd parties are agnostic I see no reason why this company can't return to some of it's own gaming root it once had before PS showed up.

 

[Tapejara]

As I said in the other thread, I hope they're doing some work on the backend to improve streaming performance.

Also, I hope they let us customize button mapping. PS4 and PSTV let you do this through the system OS, so hopefully Sony has a solution for PC.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

You mean a PS3

I'm sure in time PS4 games might make it on though!

That's the hope. Gonna be years before it happens if it does. But in the more realistic near future I hope the service gets expanded to include PS1 and PS2 games.

 

[Hockeymac18]

One step closer to a consoleless future (for me).

 

[Bojanglez]

I wonder how long before PS4 games come to PSNow. Imagine they let you play your purchased ps4 games over PSNow (providing you had an active PS+). PC players would then get to play PS titles they want, Sony would make money on the software and PS+ and might also nullify XBox's play anywhere scheme to an extent.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Add now to my plus sub already

 

[Hip Hop]

Non existent as long as you have an ok connection. Not even a great one. Just decent and you won't be able to perceive any lag. As long as you go with a wired connection that is. Flawless wired, hit and miss wifi. Sadly that's why I don't use the service on Vita. But yeah I can tell no difference between playing a game locally with my wired connection on PS4.

Would a 10mbps connection do?

I know the minimum is 5mbps, but still. Tried things like Onlive in the past and it was pretty crap.

 

[oti]

lol

 

[Bojanglez]

Would a 10mbps connection do?

I know the minimum is 5mbps, but still. Tried things like Onlive in the past and it was pretty crap.

My connection is around 10Mbps, I played through a few PS3 games over PSNow about a year ago and for the most part it was a great experience, most of the time I forgot I was using PSNow.

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

Well that's pretty cool, but... kind of defeats the purpose of consoles now if all their exclusives end up being available on PC. At least this isn't exactly like Microsoft's "Play Anywhere" (or whatever it's called) feature in that this is a subscription-based streaming service, and only the PlayStation 3's library too.

I don't want to sound petty or greedy, but I hope that the PlayStation 4's library doesn't ever (at least not anytime soon) end up on PlayStation Now, because I'm a console guy and I wouldn't the main reason for owning a PlayStation to kind of be, well, gone.

I'll at least take comfort in knowing that my friends who don't have a PS3 can try out its exclusives now, I suppose.

Um.

WHAT!?!?!?

 

[Window]

I wonder how this works. Do they have a working emulator running on x86 or do they use Cell based servers (or something else even)?

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Add now to my plus sub already

Sigh. So tired of these posts. Every. Single. Time. It's not reasonable to do this.

Adding PS Plus on top of your PS Now sub? More reasonable. And something that will be pretty damn necessary actually if and when down the road they put PS4 games on the service.

One thing that could reasonably be added to the PS Plus subscription though, is the ability to stream like 1 or 2 games of Sony's choice per month. Making that part of the PS3 selection on each months PS3 Plus lineup would be good actually.

 

[Morfeo]

Can I now play Bloodborne on the PC?

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I wonder how this works. Do they have a working emulator running on x86 or do they use Cell based servers (or something else even)?

It's just streaming video.

 

[Mass Effect]

Can I now play Bloodborne on the PC?

No. PS3 games only.

 

[delSai]

Can I now play Bloodborne on the PC?

Ps3 only, so no.

 

[Leonsito]

Can I play with another gamepad? Like the X1?

 

[inpHilltr8r]

I wonder how this works. Do they have a working emulator running on x86 or do they use Cell based servers (or something else even)?

There are multiple data centers with racks of custom PS3 servers (with real Cell + RSX hardware, not emulated). They're all hooked up to file servers with game images, and your save games.

 

[Window]

It's just streaming video.

Yes but what device is running the software/game which streams it to you? I remember when the service was first announced people speculating (or was it confirmed?) that it was just a bunch of PS3s. That seems inefficient to me if they're dedicating an entire single system per player but maybe the numbers works out fine.

Edit: ^^I see, thanks.

 

[Bergerac]

This seems ...odd? I would've thought, at this stage, there'd still be a market for PS3 hardware sales? No? Granted, it wasn't exactly the PS2, but still.

 

[Norwegian_Imposter]

And yet here I am in Norway unable to use it and I have 1gb up 1gb down

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Yes but what device is running the software/game which streams it to you? I remember when the service was first announced people speculating (or was it confirmed?) that it was just a bunch of PS3's. That seems inefficient to me if they're dedicating an entire single system per player but maybe the numbers works out fine.

Edit: ^^I see, thanks.

They've already been doing this. It's continuing to be the way it has been, only now there will be video streamed to PCs.

 

[Vashetti]

I hope this means they're going to up the bitrate and res at some point.

720p streams are frustrating.

 

[Blam]

Imo I'm probably still never going to use this because I despise what Sony did to OnLive. Plus the input delay is too much for this to not be worth it.

Lmao wait a second that Bluetooth adapter only supports one DS4.

 

[otakukidd]

Imo I'm probably still never going to use this because I despise what Sony did to OnLive. Plus the input delay is too much for this to not be worth it.

You mean not buy them?

 

[PaulLFC]

The adapter supporting the headset jack could be great if it works with YouTube, iTunes etc for semi-wireless listening. The mention of "if the gaming application supports it" has me doubtful though.

 

[Shadowheart]

This is good news. They should release it for any device with streaming access. I always said it was a mistake to release it exclusively for Sony phones when it did. It should have been on all phones.

 

[Caayn]

I hope this means they're going to up the bitrate and res at some point.

720p streams are frustrating.

That probably has more to do with their bandwidth budget than the current systems running PS Now.

 

[kabel]

Wait, so there are servers somewhere with Cell CPUs etc. which render the game and send the video output to you? Is this the reason of the rumors for the 22nm Cell shrink?

 

[ThatOneGrunt]

This is good news. They should release it for any device with streaming access. I always said it was a mistake to release it exclusively for Sony phones when it did. It should have been on all phones.

It's been on non Sony devices for a while. My smart Samsung tv has PlayStation now.

In my experience though, it's not worth it. I have 70 Mbps down and Ninja Gaiden still had lag. Not to mention the pricing is terrible.

 

[MUnited83]

do i have to use the ds4 with psnow or can i use an xbox controller

DS4. That said, im sure someone will make something allows for it.

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

Service is still not worth it to me. No PS1/PS2 games. No PSP/PSV emulated games. I would also like old PS4 games. So far, we got nothing.

 

[jmizzal]

do i have to use the ds4 with psnow or can i use an xbox controller

This is the million dollar question

All I would have to pay for is the monthly fee and not have to buy a DS4

 

[Blam]

You mean not buy them?

Actually they bought them and immediately shut them down.

 

[Adryuu]

7th September megaton: Knack coming to PSNow!

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