PlayStation Game-Streaming Service Comes To Samsung Smart TVs In 2015

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PlayStation Game-Streaming Service Comes To Samsung Smart TVs In 2015

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 25, 2014 @04:09PM from the all-in-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes Sony and Samsung are jointly launching the PlayStation Now game streaming service on select Samsung Smart TVs next year. The service will allow users to play PlayStation games without the need of a gaming console. From the article: "...Sony says some 200 PlayStation 3 games will be available to stream, and that the service runs at full functionality, specifically mentioning things like trophies, online multiplayer and cloud-saves for game-progress. Sound familiar? It should because that's how the service works on Bravia TVs and PlayStation game consoles. What's more, all you'll need is one of Sony's DualShock 4 gamepads to control the action."

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lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Joe_Dragon · 2014-12-25 16:17 · Score: 1, Interesting

lots of lag and will eat up your download cap.
1. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 16:29 · Score: 0
  
  you must be canadian
2. Re: lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 16:29 · Score: 0
  
  Only in USA
3. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 16:40 · Score: 0
  
  Or Australian? Or New Zealand? Or British? Or pick any other country in the world apart from the US?
4. Re: lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 17:12 · Score: 0
  
  Hahahahaha you suck
5. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 17:27 · Score: 1
  
  if you use netflix without waiting for buffering, you likly have the bandwidth rate to game remoatly.
  badwidth monthly volume caps can be pinfull, sorry.
  I live in canada ontario and have used the nvidia shield to game remoatly.
  There was some lag like ~90ms... but the host server was likly around austen texes.
  over all it was impressive.. but not going to replace my computer when it comes to fast reflex games like FPS.
6. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by donaldm · 2014-12-25 17:54 · Score: 1
  
  Or Australian? Or New Zealand? Or British? Or pick any other country in the world apart from the US?
  Actually you can add the USA to that list as well since around 65% of ISP's (a quick search will confirm this) do have caps or the service is expensive. Actually in Australia you can get unlimited bandwidth relatively cheaply however unless you are close to the exchange then it won't do you much good since the speed of the network is allot slower than broadband and fibre.
  
  Of course the bottom line is how much do you pay for the service and what does that service provide? A bit like all ISP's throughout the world.
  
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7. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by ernest.cunningham · 2014-12-25 17:55 · Score: 2
  
  I have 200/200Mbit Fibre with no data cap in New Zealand. Whats your point.
  Low latency and no caps at this end. As long as the Sony servers can stream quick enough, there will be no problem here in NZ.
8. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 19:04 · Score: 0
  
  As long as the Sony servers can stream quick enough,
  HA!
9. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by antifoidulus · 2014-12-25 19:30 · Score: 1
  
  if you use netflix without waiting for buffering, you likly have the bandwidth rate to game remoatly.
  
  I keep on trying, but the black knight who guards the socket on the other end of the moat won't let me plug in my TV.
  
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10. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by future+assassin · 2014-12-25 20:35 · Score: 2
  
  I'm Canadian using cable internet from Lightspeed,ca and have no caps. I've downloaded quite a bit 500+ GB and no complaints from the company.
  
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11. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 21:44 · Score: 0
  
  It does not matter how fast and latency free your line are, when the servers are placed far from your home. Thanks to the laws of physics there is no way getting around latency with streaming games. The ony way you could play lag free is if they place the servers right outside your home or at very least in your local town/city. Even if you get lets say 40ms to their server the signal would still have to travel first from you and then back, which means more than double of that.
12. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 21:52 · Score: 0
  
  Do not worry; the Sony servers are down/hacked so often that the download cap will at least be safe.
13. Re: lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 22:42 · Score: 1
  
  Unless they do like Sega Channel and download the whole game. A DVD would be quick at 200Mb.
14. Re: lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. by Simply+Curious · 2014-12-26 02:14 · Score: 0
  
  In which case it would require the full PS4 hardware to play, which is not what this article is about.
What a terrific idea by msobkow · 2014-12-25 16:23 · Score: 2, Interesting

What a terrific idea for the most-hacked media company on the planet who's servers have been down the most often of any of the gaming companies. :(

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1. Re:What a terrific idea by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 17:50 · Score: 0
  
  They can do a DDOS back with all the tv's/bots.
2. Re:What a terrific idea by Marginal+Coward · 2014-12-26 03:44 · Score: 1
  
  BTW, do people still release video games to go with movies? If so, we can look forward to "The Interview" game, coming soon on the PlayStation. Won't it be fun to assassinate a little cartoon Kim when you get to the boss level? He's easy to recognize because he's the only fat person in the whole game.
3. Re:What a terrific idea by sir-gold · 2014-12-26 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  If there was a companion video game to go along with the movie, there would be some mention of it in the leaked Sony emails.
4. Re:What a terrific idea by Marginal+Coward · 2014-12-26 06:44 · Score: 1
  
  Just a joke, Son, I say, a joke.
5. Re:What a terrific idea by sir-gold · 2014-12-26 06:55 · Score: 1
  
  I was making a joke too (at Sony's expense)
please open apis and standards by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 16:43 · Score: 0

one end encodes video, sound and decodes user input,
the other end decodes video and sound while sending user input.
sounds like...
Nvidia's shield, Steam's in home streaming, remote desktop... and other services.
I really hope an open api and standard is the end result soon.
The wayland project could use a good remoat desktop solution.
1. Re:please open apis and standards by Opportunist · 2014-12-26 02:02 · Score: 2
  
  Open APIs? What's next, interoperability? Compatibility?
  We're talking about Sony here. The company that brought you not only their own memory cards (memory sticks) for their appliances which are incompatible with anything but even their own audio codec in ATRAC, again for their own appliances, incompatible with anything else in the world.
  What are you dreaming of at night?
  
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First things first by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 16:47 · Score: 0

Shouldn't they work on getting these 200+ games available on the PS4 first? You know, their actual gaming platform? The PS4 lacks so many great games available on the PS3 it's ridiculous.
Sony should focus on the real issues....
1. Re:First things first by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 18:10 · Score: 0
  
  They already have close to that many available for PS4. The real problem is the pricing structure is so absurd there's no incentive to use the service. Why the fuck would I pay $30 for a three month rental of Final Fantasy XIII-2 when I can spend $20 on Amazon and own it forever?
Great, Lizard Losers will DDoS that too by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 17:26 · Score: 0

Sony really needs to step up the security game, across the board, across all divisions.
DRM... by blahplusplus · 2014-12-25 17:29 · Score: 1

... by another name.
1. Re:DRM... by NotInHere · 2014-12-25 17:46 · Score: 1
  
  The "best" (as in most effective) DRM ever, in fact.
2. Re:DRM... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-26 01:05 · Score: 0
  
  The "best" (as in most effective) DRM ever, in fact.
  Yes, exactly. Yet another move to take away control and ownership from the consumer. After all, anything left offline will not be rewarding a company with your usage statistics, a very strong source of profit these days. And anything owned outright is wrong as well, since the pay-per-use/view model is becoming the dominant one. You need to rent the right to access your entertainment, not own it outright. And you will report all of your usage on it.
  This is all somewhat still requested of consumers today. It will be mandated in products of tomorrow.
  The real problem with hindsight is when it makes people appear blind and stupid.
3. Re:DRM... by Opportunist · 2014-12-26 02:03 · Score: 1
  
  In the way that it will make the content secure by nobody even WANTING to touch, let alone copy, it?
  
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4. Re:DRM... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-26 02:07 · Score: 0
  
  You forget, Kids today don't care about Ownership. Renting EVERYTHING is the future and the best way to make rich richer and poor poorer.
5. Re:DRM... by sir-gold · 2014-12-26 05:52 · Score: 1
  
  In related news, home rental is increasing, while home ownership is decreasing, despite the fact that a mortgage is cheaper than rent.
6. Re:DRM... by ToasterMonkey · 2014-12-26 15:41 · Score: 1
  
  ... by another name.
  It's called renting. That is literally what this service is marketed as and used for.
  It's not as easy to drive down to Hollywood Video or Blockbuster as it used to be, so what's your problem with streamed renting?
  I don't like the rental periods/price points yet, and I think it's all PS3 games right now, but the concept is solid.
  In the future, game streaming could be used for promotions like XYZ 2 on sale tomorrow, play XYZ 1 free for a day, or you could try a fully functional demo for a few hours before plunking down $60 for the whole thing.
  Tell me what's wrong with any of that.
Re:Magna Carta by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 17:56 · Score: 0

This I post as a reminder of the roots of our sacred rights. We worry about streaming games to our televisions, but let us not forget real struggles.
Re:Magna Carta by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-25 19:06 · Score: 0

man, that dude even wrote more than bennett himself.
In 20 years by future+assassin · 2014-12-25 20:38 · Score: 3, Interesting

Ill be telling my grand kids about the days of dumb box tv's with out the need to run the tv behind a firewall, game console and computers you owned and could modify and game disks you could lend to your friends with out the authorities breaking down your doors for illegal game lending.

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1. Re:In 20 years by Opportunist · 2014-12-26 02:06 · Score: 1
  
  You can tell that story along with the one of the internet where you were allowed to just connect anything you want and not need a federal license (which surprisingly every insecure fucking toaster can get but it takes a written test and handing over any and all information about you if you want to use anything that allows some kind of interaction).
  
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"on the net" is not always a good thing by Endymion · 2014-12-25 22:25 · Score: 1

Download cap? It's a "smart tv", so I expect the upload for the microphone-related features to be a pain in bandwidth caps. Really, though, anybody who buys into these spy^H^H^H "smart" (networked) products has no right to complain about the 1984-style future. "voice activated"? Yes, only after uploading the room's audio to a remote server for processing. It turns out it only took rebranding surveillance devices as "smart", and consumers will pay money to have their house bugged.
I like the internet, and have spent a lot of my life working on parts of it, but.... it is a very bad idea to put everything on a network.

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1. Re:"on the net" is not always a good thing by seanvaandering · 2014-12-26 01:19 · Score: 2
  
  it is a very bad idea to put everything on a network.
  
  I agree. Who controls what is where this future is heading. The consumer doesn't realize it, but who are they going to complain to when Sony decides to turn off the feature - or discontinue a game because Sony determined that the game is no longer worth supporting. It's all fun and games when things are working, but when they don't... who ya gonna call?
  
  It's amazing, I work for a satellite TV company in Canada, and the amount of calls i'm ALREADY getting from customers trying to set up their Smart TVs is making me shake my head - we didn't sell it to you, so we don't support it - go call Samsung.
Re:Magna Carta by sir-gold · 2014-12-26 06:05 · Score: 1

I doubt anyone has forgotten.
A stubbed toe can be more important than a war, when it's YOUR toe that's been stubbed.
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