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Spade on 05 January 2015

Price seems fine, but my Internet can't handle this.



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Samus Aran on 05 January 2015

How would you play most of those games on smartphones?

Seems like a poor man's Netflix to me. Netflix is cheaper and has a much broader library. But hey, it's worth a try from Sony.



Zekkyou on 05 January 2015
Vena said:

spemanig said:

Setting the framework up now will allow them to iron out streaming issues like input lag. By 2020, I'm sure these issues will hardly be noticable, and by that time, they can just launch their DS5 as the already established PS Now, with a back catalog of four generations of Playstation games and multiplats, all sold at different rates.

Unless Sony plans on breaking the speed of light, the input lag isn't going to go away.

They don't need it to disappear, just make it small enough that the majority don't care. They were already pretty close (for most types of games), based on what the beta testers said.



Burek on 05 January 2015
Samus Aran said:
How would you play most of those games on smartphones?

You already can



Samus Aran on 05 January 2015
Burek said:
Samus Aran said:
How would you play most of those games on smartphones?

You already can

Yeah, that looks ridiculous. Is that real or photoshop? Because I can't even see 100k people who own a smartphone doing this... They'd rather play Candy Crush than The Last of Us anyway. How sad that may be. 



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QUAKECore89 on 05 January 2015

Good plan, but not for me...



MoHasanie on 05 January 2015

The price is good but I'm still not sure how well it will do. It could do really well if they advertise it a lot but if they don't, then it could end up like PS TV.



    

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GamechaserBE on 05 January 2015

15$ is good value for what you get but for my self it would be a waste of money =p.

If it gets like a yearly subscription of 150$ that is a lot of money, and if I had the money now and cou ld buy 10 PS3 games with it I will have a hard time finding 10 that I want to play. I probably end up playing only half of those ten and probably only finish 2-3.

If you can stream PS3 games to PS4 I would rather have the ability to also buy them. That is something I rather would do than this subscription.



Vena on 05 January 2015
Zekkyou said:

They don't need it to disappear, just make it small enough that the majority don't care. They were already pretty close (for most types of games), based on what the beta testers said.

If I'm not mistaken, they can only run 30FPS which hides much of that latency but it will still be there and they're likely still using some sort of backend prediction algorithm.



Aura7541 on 05 January 2015
Intrinsic said:

valid points. either way, this is a great first step to build the service. and if you really think about it, at $20 a month this is great value with over 100+ games on tap which will only get better. And like every subscription service, your milage will vary based on what kinda consumer you are. If you can play 10 games a month then for that month you were paying only $2 per game. $4/game if you play only 5 games a month. 

but look at services like gamefly, they have you paying $15/month though only being able to rent one game at a time. I don't get how anyone can be complaining about PSnow pricing (not saying that you are). 

Not to mention, these are only PS3 games. Sony is planning on bringing PS1 and PS2 games to the service, too, which will dramatically offer a bigger variety and number of titles to stream.