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PlayStation Now Will Bring PS4 Games to your PC (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the more-convergence dept.

You could soon play PlayStation 4 exclusives like Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Remastered on your PC. From a report on Engadget: Sony is bringing the PS4 catalog to its streaming game service PlayStation Now, the company said today in a blog post. The announcement is light on details, but we know that every game in the service, including PS4 games, will be part of a single PS Now subscription.

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  1. PS Now gets this fundamentally WRONG by gravewax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    streaming games SUCK, the latency, resolution sacrifices and bandwidth requirements make all but the simplest games problematic. This turd needs to be left on the PS where it belongs.

    1. Re:PS Now gets this fundamentally WRONG by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered.
      We're already seeing the same thing happening with the popularity of streaming audio vs. locally stored music, despite all the obvious downsides.

    2. Re:PS Now gets this fundamentally WRONG by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.

      The sheeple consumers that will buy into streaming games are probably not the people that ever had a top-end PC so won't even know or care what they are missing, and will just appreciate the convenience of not needing a PC/console at all.
      Then the next generation will grow up just thinking that the low-res lossy graphics and lag are as good as it can ever get, and no doubt nVidia/AMD will come out with a whole new range of products just to improve the graphics and lag of streaming games, probably by defining/using a whole new protocol that will still run the game remotely (so games companies can avoid giving consumers any opportunity to pirate the games) but the graphics will be rendered locally. And here we go round the equivalent of the console loop again with more opportunity for the companies to sell new hardware.

    3. Re:PS Now gets this fundamentally WRONG by gravewax · · Score: 2

      Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.

      The sheeple consumers that will buy into streaming games are probably not the people that ever had a top-end PC so won't even know or care what they are missing, and will just appreciate the convenience of not needing a PC/console at all. Then the next generation will grow up just thinking that the low-res lossy graphics and lag are as good as it can ever get, and no doubt nVidia/AMD will come out with a whole new range of products just to improve the graphics and lag of streaming games, probably by defining/using a whole new protocol that will still run the game remotely (so games companies can avoid giving consumers any opportunity to pirate the games) but the graphics will be rendered locally. And here we go round the equivalent of the console loop again with more opportunity for the companies to sell new hardware.

      you are comparing apples and oranges. streaming games has a noticeable detrimental effect on the quality of the experience, for most people the difference in quality between streaming audio and high quality high bitrate local copies is ZERO as they don't have the hardware to get the benefit. With gaming though users notice even the smallest of input lag and choppy and blurry resolution is noticeable even to someone that doesn't understand the difference while playing on exactly the same hardware.

    4. Re:PS Now gets this fundamentally WRONG by mjwx · · Score: 2

      I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered.

      It doesn't matter what the games companies think, it's what people are willing to buy that matters and the PCGMR definitely wont be buying streaming only games. Filthy Console Peasants may put up with it for a while.

      Anyone who thinks Ubisoft, EA, et al. are too big to fail... remember THQ. They went bust in 2013 (so console players may not remember them) and all of their properties were sold off for pennies on the pound. I predict the first company to try to go all streaming will be the next to fail.

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  2. Hardware? by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would it be reasonable to assume they actually don't have racks of PS4s and robots running around plugging in DVDs everytime someone requests a different game? I'm guessing they are running a (very good) PS4 emulator on server-grade (say Intel/nVidia/Linux) platforms.
    If so, it makes me wonder what it would take to get our hands on said emulator.

  3. Playstation Network Account by MrNiceguy_KS · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have a Playstation, but this may be the push I need to take over the PSN account someone named Jared set up using my gmail address. (Apparently Sony's account setup process doesn't have a "Click the link we emailed you to verify you actually typed the address correctly," step.)

    More disturbingly, neither does Match.com. (Disturbing due to how your inbox looks 4 hours after a 62-year-old woman signs up for a dating service using your email account.)

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  4. Just make a PS4 VM. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    If we're being honest here, both the PS4 and XBox One are just a compact PCs with unimpressive specs. The only difference is they come with a specialized OS and proprietary software. It seems to me that with a modern x86_64 chip (since they have built-in VM capabilities) that it should be entirely possible to run games for either console at their native speed on most desktop computers. This is why I could never bring myself to get either system, they are shitty computers without any real special features.

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  5. Re:But the CPU by GNious · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's OK - According to ca every PC gamer I've met in the last 4-5 years, you can buy a PC with much more CPU power, much more GPU power, a lot more RAM, SSD storage and better everything else, for less than the cost of a (latest) Playstation.
    Oddly enough, you don't even have to ask about it or anything - just mention that you have a console, and they'll explain the cost-advantage of owning a PC faster than a gluten-allergic vegan will say the word, "like".