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PS4: Shareplay 35 40.70%
 
PS3/PSP: Multiple Licenses 2 2.33%
 
3DS/DS: Wifi Multiplayer 4 4.65%
 
Steam: Family Share 44 51.16%
 
Other: Written in comments 1 1.16%
 
Total:86
Serious_frusting on 06 March 2015

PS4 Shareplay is the shit



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Ultrashroomz on 06 March 2015

PS4.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

theprof00 on 06 March 2015
Serious_frusting said:
PS4 Shareplay is the shit

Yeah shareplay is balling.

I think the perfect setup would be a steam type sharing along with shareplay on top of it



kitler53 on 06 March 2015
theprof00 said:

Last gen, sharing was so much easier, but this gen has been locked down pretty tightly.
Moving forward, what do you think the standard of sharing digital should be?

PS4: Shareplay- Pass control over the network to a friend or have them join multiplayer with you.

3DS/DS: multiplayer wifi- Some games allow you to play multiplayer wifi games with only one copy of a game

PS3/PSP: Multiple Licenses- In the past, ps3 and psp gave multiple licenses per digital purchase that could then be shared with friends

STEAM: Steam Users on PC can authorize up to 10 devices to share their digital library with. The authorized users may access your library at any time, and when the primary account holder would like to play, it notifies the other user and gives them a couple minutes before re-allowing access.

ps3 started with 6 i think then reduced to 3 but ps4 still supports 2.  one license for the "primary hardware" and another to the account.   I gameshare with a friend that way,.. we have each others login info so i can play his games if i want to just buy loging into his account. 

not 100% on this but i believe xbox is the same.

 

worth noting that the ps3 "share" was for digital content only.  shareplay is digital or disc.



Baffledduck on 06 March 2015

You can already do the steam thing on consoles just 1 account can be signed in at a time similar to steam



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theprof00 on 06 March 2015
kitler53 said:
theprof00 said:

Last gen, sharing was so much easier, but this gen has been locked down pretty tightly.
Moving forward, what do you think the standard of sharing digital should be?

PS4: Shareplay- Pass control over the network to a friend or have them join multiplayer with you.

3DS/DS: multiplayer wifi- Some games allow you to play multiplayer wifi games with only one copy of a game

PS3/PSP: Multiple Licenses- In the past, ps3 and psp gave multiple licenses per digital purchase that could then be shared with friends

STEAM: Steam Users on PC can authorize up to 10 devices to share their digital library with. The authorized users may access your library at any time, and when the primary account holder would like to play, it notifies the other user and gives them a couple minutes before re-allowing access.

ps3 started with 6 i think then reduced to 3 but ps4 still supports 2.  one license for the "primary hardware" and another to the account.   I gameshare with a friend that way,.. we have each others login info so i can play his games if i want to just buy loging into his account. 

not 100% on this but i believe xbox is the same.

worth noting that the ps3 "share" was for digital content only.  shareplay is digital or disc.

Since then, ToS has changed to say that these methods of sharing are not allowed by either MS or Sony.

Hotswaps and workarounds isn't really sharing.

But yes, both of these options work on ps4 and x1.

Steam on the other hand fully endorses sharing like this.



Intrinsic on 06 March 2015

PS4 share play could be said to have the perfect share system that works for both gamers and publishers. Only problem is that your console is useless to you while sharing.



Serious_frusting on 06 March 2015
theprof00 said:
Serious_frusting said:
PS4 Shareplay is the shit

Yeah shareplay is balling.

I think the perfect setup would be a steam type sharing along with shareplay on top of it


That would actually be pretty sweet



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 06 March 2015

Steam without a doubt! Its soo easy and seamless and such a large amount of games support it that its just so epic



                  

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Chazore on 06 March 2015
Captain_Yuri said:
Steam without a doubt! Its soo easy and seamless and such a large amount of games support it that its just so epic

Another one for Steam share, most excellent choice dude.



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