PlayStation Now (stream PS2/PS3/PS4 games to PS4/PC or download PS4 games to your PS4) - 7 day free trial is back

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Death's Head » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:41 pm

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Moggy wrote:...there will be a version of the consoles that ships without any physical media capability...

To be honest I'd be okay with the principal of this. But - but! - you just know that the manufacturers wiould use this as an excuse to drive up game pricing and to evolve the "service rental" aspect. The digital Stores would be monopolised distribution. Even now, newer "big" titles are being priced at £90 (including season pass). Imagine if there was no competing retail channel :shock: .


Absolutely, but that is the way we are heading.

Hopefully governments will put a stop to it under competition laws and force Sony/MS to allow other companies to sell games on the marketplaces. You could have the console manufacturers online store as well as Game, CDKeys, Amazon, etc all selling games via PS5/Xbox2 with their own sales and pricing structures.

I bet MS/Sony will not do that until a big territory (US or EU) force them to though.

I suspect the future is subscription only. We will own nothing.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by LewisD » Mon May 29, 2017 3:13 pm

I signed up for the 7-Day trial of PS Now.

I didn't have a PS3 so there's a good number of games on there that take my fancy. And if it's gooseberry fool I'll cancel it.

As a platform it works really well. Honestly quite surprised by it.
Some games run like pants though (Star wars Force unleashed was pretty bad).
But others are great. WRC rally was running really well and I didn't notice that it was being streamed at all.

I think all being said I'll still cancel this in a week as £12 a month is a bit too steep for what is essential a last-gen game rental service. But the potential is good.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Lagamorph » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:32 pm

Hahaha, PSNow has a queue,

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Victor Mildew » Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:52 pm

more like PS4minutesfromNOW amirite

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Mafro » Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:58 pm

Remember when you had to wait in an actual queue to play games in Playstation Home?

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Victor Mildew » Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:01 pm

I don't even remember PlayStation home.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by Moggy » Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:58 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Hahaha, PSNow has a queue,

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That seems like good value for money. :slol:

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PostRe: PlayStation Now thread - PS4 games coming soon
by NickSCFC » Tue Sep 04, 2018 4:14 pm

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Bloodborne added 04/09/2018
by Victor Mildew » Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:36 am

Bloodborne with lag, what could go wrong?

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Bloodborne added 04/09/2018
by NickSCFC » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:16 pm

You can now download the PS2/PS4 games as part of the subscription

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explo ... /#allgames

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Now you can download, like Gamepass (20/09/2018)
by Choclet-Milk » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:45 pm

But not PS3 games...?

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Now you can download, like Gamepass (20/09/2018)
by NickSCFC » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:59 pm

Chocolate-Milk wrote:But not PS3 games...?


Nope, have you seen the state of PS3 emulation?


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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Now you can download, like Gamepass (20/09/2018)
by Choclet-Milk » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:04 pm

NickSCFC wrote:
Chocolate-Milk wrote:But not PS3 games...?


Nope, have you seen the state of PS3 emulation?

Y'know, it didn't even occur to me that it'd be different to streaming, but of course it is. That was dumb of me.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Now you can download, like Gamepass (20/09/2018)
by Floex » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:17 pm

Competition is a good thing.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS3/PS4 games to your PS4/PC) - Now you can download, like Gamepass (20/09/2018)
by Gemini73 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:44 pm

NickSCFC wrote:
Chocolate-Milk wrote:But not PS3 games...?


Nope, have you seen the state of PS3 emulation?



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by NickSCFC » Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:53 pm


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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS2/PS3/PS4 games to PS4/PC or download PS4 games to your PS4) - 7 day free trial is back
by Monkey Man » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:45 pm

Monthly price reduced from £13 to £9 and yearly from £85 to £50.

God of War
Grand Theft Auto V
inFAMOUS Second Son
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

These games will be available from October 1, 2019 until January 2, 2020. Each month, the service will add a new selection of marquee games that will be available for a limited period. The marquee content is on top of the existing offering of popular evergreen titles that are added to PS Now on a regular basis.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/10 ... mes-added/

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS2/PS3/PS4 games to PS4/PC or download PS4 games to your PS4) - 7 day free trial is back
by Jenuall » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:50 pm

Does anyone here use this service? What is the quality of streaming like?

For £50 I would be quite tempted.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS2/PS3/PS4 games to PS4/PC or download PS4 games to your PS4) - 7 day free trial is back
by Venom » Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:55 pm

Monkey Man wrote:Monthly price reduced from £13 to £9 and yearly from £85 to £50.

God of War
Grand Theft Auto V
inFAMOUS Second Son
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End


£50 is a great price but there is no where near the range of current gen titles. I'm very surprised about GTA V. It's a third-party game that's still a best seller. What's interesting is that God of War is relatively recent and it's being included so perhaps Sony are testing the waters here.

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PostRe: PlayStation Now (stream PS2/PS3/PS4 games to PS4/PC or download PS4 games to your PS4) - 7 day free trial is back
by Wedgie » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:46 pm

Those games are only in there for a short time apparently.

I’ve paid for a month and played two PS3 games that would cost a fortune to buy second hand, and I experienced zero problems with lag and stuttering. Sure they aren’t going to break the PS3, but it’s far better than what I experienced on my free trial at the time it was first introduced.

£50 is a much better price point.

But I wonder how it will be like with games that requires fast reactions like Uncharted 4 and God of War.

BUT as you can download them on to your PS4, it wouldn’t be a huge disadvantage. So I think I would jump in PS Now after I’ve finished a few games especially Borderlands 3 which is a huge time sink.

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