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Intrinsic on 17 August 2014
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Vena said:


1.) Right now, PS+ has been giving them much needed dividends on the company's teetering-on-disaster quaterly reports. Money to run PSNow is money Sony is not seeing to help pay off their massive debts from things like the PS3 or their other departments.

If PSNow doesn't see them quick returns in a short time and ends up with even more struggling on quaterlys, I will guarantee you it will be gutted in short order. OnLive has already failed at this, and I honestly don't expect PSNow to succeed at all. Emulators are free, widely available and understood nowadays, and PCs can run everything.

2.) Then this is new information for me. :D (I don't think I know of any one who would ever play a game with that type of massive input and return lag, but whatever. I'm actually going to be watching to see if this is even a worthwhile feature or nothing more than a talking point in the future. The reason it worked with NDS/3DS was largely due to proximity and your own machine handling much of the work, but with this and the distances involved the delays will be possibly attrocious.) 

Hmmm, your commenst are fast beginning to sound like you have a bias.

  1. I dont know how you could have missed it, but the PS division is one of the few sony divisions that are profitable. Whats responsible for them bleeding money is mostly their Tv divison and other electronics divisions. Difference between this and online, is that services like online had streaming games to be their bread and butter. Game streaming should not be approached that way. It should be a niche feature, something for those that really want it and something that I am sure sony doesn;t expect there to be a lot of people doing. If for nothing else not everyone has the bandwith that will make it feasible for them. And if comparing emulators to this, then you really have no idea what PSnow is designed for. Don't even know what PCs being able to run everything has to do with this.

    PSnow means that the PS4 doesn't have to have BC compatible hardware to actually be BC. And I do not know of any PC emulator that emulates PS3 games and even ultimately PS4 games. You heard of the PStv. Its a $99 box with a controller. That will support PSnow too. At some point, even if you own a samsung tv and no console at all the Tv will have support for PSnow. 


  2. Again, you are really beginning to sound biased. I don't mind you having your opinion, but when you dismiss everything and attack it with very little to no basis before the thing is even out it makes one wonder. For those that have the bandwidth to enjoy this,  Share play will be the single biggest thing this generation. Get this, your friends can play any game you own while they dont own it. All your games. If being able to loan a game out to a friend was ever a thing, then this takes that to a completely different level. Granted, your milage may vary depending on you rinternet connection, but ts things like this that will make people want to have better internet connections. Kinda like netflix. If netflix could succeed, you really think being able to play games for free wouldn't? Hell, I am sure a majority of people will put up with whatever video artifacts they have to simply cause they are you know, getting it for free.