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GamechaserBE on 06 July 2015
BMaker11 said:
GamechaserBE said:
I just feel they should allow people to buy games on PS now. I mean why not? Their aren't really that many PS3 games I want to play and it is the primary reason I don't want PS Now + the fact that I I don't spend so much time in gaming anymore and hate to have to subs in anything. Still not touched the last two months of PS plus games :s.

You can't just buy games on PSNow for the same reason you can't just buy movies on Netflix. Sure, you could toss them $20 for a game/movie, but then you'd be streaming it forever, since you "own" it.....but their servers still take money to maintain. The cost to deliver "your" content would quickly and easily overcome the cost you paid for the content.

The solution would be to download the game to your TV. But that's just silly. Your TV isn't a Playstation. 

Renting is actually perfect if you don't game that much. Pay $5 and get the game for a week. Low up front cost and you play it in the little bit of time you use for gaming, instead of paying full price and only playing the game for a little bit. 

Their are always solutions if you really want. Let only PS plus subscribers buy them, or use advertisements or whatever, and PS now is not really renting because I could play Persona 3 and one day when I want to play again it is gone because the license cost was to much and the interest to small to keep it on PS now.



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GameMasterPC on 06 July 2015
Xeon said:
I want to see ps1 and ps2 games on the service as well. Maybe even other systems if possible. This really is just the start of it.

PS Now has a few of them like God Of War and God Of War II.



GribbleGrunger on 06 July 2015

The one thing I think Sony should have been doing already and I would consider a missed opportunity, is to add one PSNow game to PS+ every month. This would be playable for one month only and require people to sign into PSNow. It would add value to PS+ for the PS4/PS3/Vita and also drive traffic into PSNow.



 

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Aeolus451 on 06 July 2015

Seems cool and I'm glad that it's working. I think it's smart opening up the service to different tv brands, Personally, it's not a service I would use. I like my console and discs.



GribbleGrunger on 06 July 2015
Aeolus451 said:
Seems cool and I'm glad that it's working. I think it's smart opening up the service to different tv brands, Personally, it's not a service I would use. I like my console and discs.

Yeah, that's how I look at it too. Once it's on Laptops, tablets, phones and other Blu-ray/TV manufacturers, it should start gaining more popularity.



 

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Navane on 06 July 2015

It'd be way too easy for me to sit here and moan about the shortcomings of a great technological achievement that we wouldn't have thought possible at the beginning of last-gen so I'll just say this: My only complaint is the video quality and input lag. I was playing The Last of Us and noticed some pretty crushed blacks, and lack of detail. The input lag, while not bad, makes it hard to be precise while playing. Not sure if there is much that can be done at this point but hope they can one day improve the service where there is at least no input lag.



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fleischr on 06 July 2015

Looking good!



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

SvennoJ on 06 July 2015
Navane said:

It'd be way too easy for me to sit here and moan about the shortcomings of a great technological achievement that we wouldn't have thought possible at the beginning of last-gen so I'll just say this: My only complaint is the video quality and input lag. I was playing The Last of Us and noticed some pretty crushed blacks, and lack of detail. The input lag, while not bad, makes it hard to be precise while playing. Not sure if there is much that can be done at this point but hope they can one day improve the service where there is at least no input lag.

Crushed blacks might be because of a wrong setting on the tv in case the service sends full RGB instead of limited or Rec. 709. Loss of detail will be improved when the service switches over to H.265 (HEVC codec) or simply by offering higher bandwidth. Input lag is the hardest to fix, distance to server, your internet connection, using wifi, wireless controller, tv decoder + image processing all add to the lag.

It's a great achievement anyway. When OnLive was announced it was thought to be impossible, myself included. Now you don't even need a setup box anymore and it's actually playable. Next all they have to do is make a deal with MS and put a unified Minecraft on there... One Minecraft to rule them all.



generic-user-1 on 06 July 2015

does it do hd with 60 fps? and how is the latency?



Nem on 06 July 2015

Wow.... the "awful samsung smart TV". I dont even know what to say...

I see a huge beatiful screen...Must be a rich people thing.