PlayStation Now: Stream PS4 Games in 2017

plasticmissile Do you have any idea what PS Now is, or what problem it’s trying to solve? No, no you don’t. Clearly you don’t understand what it’s like to develop for a processor that has 8 concurrent processors that while underpowered individually are an utter work horse together, but require processing data in tandem, because if you don’t have the processors chewing through data at a regular rate, you end up under utilizing the hardware.

Well it’s pretty hard to emulate games running on that kind of architecture. Not only does the PS3 have a difficult CPU structure to emulate, one that is completely foreign to the kind of coding that the PS4 uses, but on top of all of that the Blu-Ray player is terrible at random read/write, but amazing at sequential read/write. So what that means is that the PS3 disc struggled to read fast enough, so to compensate developers installed a portion of the game to the hard drive to boost access times which diminished loading.

Do you comprehend how hard it is? Or are you asking for features so complex you can’t even begin to understand the underlying concept?

Well theoretically they could enable that option. The issue is would they? If they don’t offer that for PS3 games people will whine. I don’t think the DRM has anything to do with it because if someone could break the DRM on PS Now I doubt they would struggle with PSN store DRM.

I have to personally think that cutting support for PS3/Vita/TV/etc was to allow people to download, but then again, the PC client? We’ll have to wait and see is what it boils down to.

Kidcommando if that’s the ultimate end game, they got at least 10 years before they can reach that end game, because the way things are going there’s not going to be the capacity necessary to support such a future any time soon.

If you think about it games like Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, etc have a lot to gain. Games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, those have a lot to lose.

So such a future would be impossible to predict, but the fact of the matter is compared to Gamefly, Blockbuster, and any other rental service, this is pretty much an amazing deal. The only one that comes close is Microsoft’s new thing. I can’t say that poor people having access to more games is a bad thing.

I can’t dismiss all of your complaints however, because i know that companies have screwed over consumers in the past. So, while you have some valid concerns, I think you’re also overlooking other valid concerns.

Playstation sales are not going to slow to a crawl, most consumers aren’t going to build streaming rigs for their home theatre, only the ones who were already looking to do that really will. Most people are just going to want a console where they can pop in the game and have hte updates come down and play, internet bandwidth is not good enough to support total digital future, there’s no reason to believe that the PS5 will be overshadowed.

People like you were saying that the PS4 won’t do great because people don’t want consoles anymore and the consoles are too much like PCs and therefor yadda yadda yadda a ton of stuff that didn’t come true.

The Wii U and the Switch have the most exclusive ways to play their games since you can’t stream in any way shape or form, but the sales of those won’t ever be more than 15-20 million units.

Nintendo is terrible in the console gaming market. Absolutely terrible they released a tablet that gets scratched by it’s own dock with no future proofing due to lack of internal storage. Nintendo is better at exercise equipment than they are pushing gaming consoles.