Playstation Now for PC could be a game changer for Sony

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vivster said:

fireburn95 said:

It really is essentially free money. It can be competitive in the PC Market and feature just console or ps3 exclusives. Most PC players, especially your dedicated battlefield/skyrim players have rigs powerful enough to run gaikai and have internet connections which are excellent, and usually more often than not, wired.

Also, those who own xbox one / 360 and don't own ps3/ps4 could go to their decent pc's to play the uncharted, or the heavenly swords and decide "Hell, I like Heavenly Sword, I'm gonna buy a PS4 for the spiritual sequel Hells Blade"

You can even shove it with advertisements for the games sequels, and ps4/vita console ads. It's your platform there to make money from a new market, the PC market.

Sony, DO IT!

And another one who has no idea how PSNow works. Why would you need a powerful PC to run PSNow when it is easily able to run on 10 year old PCs.

Your whole argument doesn't work. PC players are PC players because they have higher standards. Streaming games is pretty much the lowest quality you can have. Way lower than actual consoles. You will have to deal with massive input lag, downgraded visuals and compression artifacts. No PC player would want this.

If anywhere, Sony should put PSNow on Smart TVs. That's where it belongs. That's where people can play without owning the hardware.

It sounds like you haven't actually tried the service.  I played Dynasty Warriors (cant remember which exact one) on the service, via my PS4, and found it to be INDISTINGUSHABLE from playing on my PS3 "natively".  No discernable input lag, no pixelization of the graphics.  I am running a 35mbps down/15mbps up Frontier Fios connection, connected via Wifi to my PS4 (effective speed, as tested via the settings on the PS4 is 16 down/3 up).

I would not hesitate to use PS Now on a regular basis if and when they fix the pricing!