VicDaMoan03
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Anyone think PS Now will replace actual console hardware? I can see this tech becoming better and better and taking the place of a PS5. I mean since all you need is a controller and you can play from your Sony TV.
Anyone think PS Now will replace actual console hardware? I can see this tech becoming better and better and taking the place of a PS5. I mean since all you need is a controller and you can play from your Sony TV.
Anyone think PS Now will replace actual console hardware? I can see this tech becoming better and better and taking the place of a PS5. I mean since all you need is a controller and you can play from your Sony TV.
much of the media and even forum posts crack me up about this. People are touting this as an incredible thing without even seeing it in action hands on. I hope its flawless but I have tried Gaikai and Onlive and they were complete garbage.
It is amazing how so many people just eat up the PR crap companies serve.
For the last couple months people have no stop complained about BF4 servers, said titanfall will fail because online only and relying on servers and then showing what happened with GTA online, Simcity, diablo 3 etc. And of course the 10 sec check in every 24 hours on xbox online
So now comes a new service no one has used hands on thats quality is fully tied into servers and internet connection and its the new Jesus of gaming.
do people not even understand the word hypocrite?
Point is, I don't think you're going to be able to truly divorce a back catalog service like this from online in any meaningful way over the long haul. As the back catalog grows, across more and more disparate pieces of hardware, and perhaps even comes to include software emulated from former competitor platforms over time, the framework for all of this is going to be heavily dependent on online access. There's no real way around that.
This is way easier than doing what, exactly? Last I checked Sony's initial outlay alone for the Gaikai purchase wasn't "cheap stuff" by any means. I doubt that corresponds to their investments since then either.
Dat load time! o_0
Holy crap! You weren't kidding. It loaded in what seemed like less than a second.
I kind of wonder if this confirms that games are running off of emulated hardware. I mean, they have to be, right?
Would I need to have a PS3 console to play a PS3 game on Vita (downloadable obviously), with this service?
Nope. You just need a PS Now subscription or rental. Same with PS1 and PS2 games. You're streaming not downloading.
Thank you. So, suppose I have just a Vita and nothing else. I subscribe to PS Now.
Now, do I need to have a TV to stream it from? I don't even know how streaming works lol.
Based on the companies that have already tried and failed to sell this concept, I wouldn't be so quick to claim that.Well, cheap in the sense of easy to understand, easy and cheap to sell to people.
All presumed of course on the basis that the technology remains static and never improves over time...The "end result" we'll see this year is just the beginning. The quality achievable is likely not far removed from what the tech currently allows, so by the standards of what can actually be achieved given the methods employed, the quality is likely to be rather high. This isn't a matter of not caring about quality but rather about your inability to appreciate there are different standards for different methodologies. Native hardware gaming certainly has one set of fairly well established quality standards by now, Streaming gaming will have to established its own set of standards over time.The technology behind it might or might not be ambitious, the end result on my screen, however, is lacking. Only people who do not care about quality all that much will be satisfied with the experience they will be offering. I also think that it was quite costly to acquire Gaikai and develop that framework, this is money which did not go into the progress of videogames.
The loading is apparently the same length as it is when playing locally. The video just cuts out the loading and you can see it cut back in 0:37 or so.
I wonder how a tablet would play PlayStation 3 games. I suppose they would use an on screen controller, similar to how Splashtop gaming works?
Well, I bought an expensive router for this sort of thing. So I should be ready.
I had bought a capture card to PlayStation 3 games on my PC. But this should make that not neccessary.
I would like to try playing Tales of Zestiria on my tablet. Or my laptop.
So if they can stream it to a tablet, whats stopping them from streaming to a pc? Whats stopping them from streaming the PS1/2/3 games to the PC?
I'm not a fan of this streaming shit, I am guessing tis kills the chance of The Last of Us 1080p Edtion. I guess it's safe for me to buy the PS3 game now.
I have 10dl/1.5ul connection. Sufficient?
Any word/idea on pricing? what have other similar services charged?
Irrelevant
Possible beta? http://us.playstation.com/playstationnow/
Point is, I don't think you're going to be able to truly divorce a back catalog service like this from online in any meaningful way over the long haul. As the back catalog grows, across more and more disparate pieces of hardware, and perhaps even comes to include software emulated from former competitor platforms over time, the framework for all of this is going to be heavily dependent on online access. There's no real way around that.
This is way easier than doing what, exactly? Last I checked Sony's initial outlay alone for the Gaikai purchase wasn't "cheap stuff" by any means. I doubt that corresponds to their investments since then either.
Possible beta? http://us.playstation.com/playstationnow/
I wonder if after this launches Sony will launch a new Xperia Play type smartphone that supports PS Now. With this service and a good amont of games from various PS platforms maybe a PS Phone would actually stand a chance. Then again I suppose the people that really care about PS gaming on the go would probably rather just go with the Vita.
You have no idea what you're talking about
I have 10dl/1.5ul connection. Sufficient?
It wouldnt be a very satisfying experience to play it with 150ms medium, would it be?
Because I made some tests in speed test, tried on 3 server and I got from 145ms to 190ms. =/
much of the media and even forum posts crack me up about this. People are touting this as an incredible thing without even seeing it in action hands on. I hope its flawless but I have tried Gaikai and Onlive and they were complete garbage.
It is amazing how so many people just eat up the PR crap companies serve.
For the last couple months people have no stop complained about BF4 servers, said titanfall will fail because online only and relying on servers and then showing what happened with GTA online, Simcity, diablo 3 etc. And of course the 10 sec check in every 24 hours on xbox online
So now comes a new service no one has used hands on thats quality is fully tied into servers and internet connection and its the new Jesus of gaming.
do people not even understand the word hypocrite?
Well based on my general mutli-player experience over the last 10 years, anything less than 50ms is good and over 100ms is almost unplayable.
Yeah, I expected that. Sad! Maybe this service will not be really available for me.
Just reading a few articles and they suggest that one PS3 (hardware) might be required per stream, which would be very costly.
No, it would not be costly. Building a new PC based service that is emulating everything would be much more costly.
Barebones PS3 Super Slim [no case, hdd, BD drive, all mobos networked to the bigass central storage that holds all game ISOs] is cheap and very power efficient, much more power efficient than PC ahitecture that is needed to emulate PS3. If they could rack ~40-60 motherboards into one server rack, they could very easily create entire PS Now service that uses PS3s to emulate PS1, PS2 and PS3 games.
Heck, they can create custom motherboards that hold multiple Cells and RSXs.
The problem is they have to cater for demand, and unlike Azure this method wouldn't be scalable. They potentially would have to server millions of users of the service with equivalent hardware.