"Sony’s PlayStation Now Service Feels Like Highway Robbery"

[BMaker11]

Vena said:

BMaker11 said:

Spoken like someone who clearly hasn't tried PSNow. I was in the private beta. There were some compression artifacts in some of the games, but nothing as crappy as "playing PS3 on a standard definition 480p tv". But for the most part, they looked good at 720p. In fact, the only game that looked sub par was Way of the Samurai 3.....and the game looks crappy on native hardware, so I'm not even going to hold it against that.

And the input was great, other than when there was a hiccup (like when once in a while, a Netflix video will hiccup and drop to like 384p, but then shoots back up to 1080p). Framerate was smooth as well. 

You'd know that if you actually tried it. But I guess you're just being you.

Its closed beta. Do you realize how minimal the stress on their servers is in such a scenario? And how much smoother it will feel to you, one of only a few, using all that available bandwidth without any competition. Scale whatever artifacts and compression and streaming issues (hiccups or otherwise) you may have had by several orders of magnititude once this goes live and if anyone actually pays for it and uses it.

Why do you think it's still in beta and made it open now? To stress test and collect feedback on prices. They've already said they're gonna adjust the 4-hour price to $1.99, for example. I think they should get rid of that altogether and just give demos, but they are making sure that when it's rolled out, it'll be a good service