Sony's streaming game service,PlayStationNow launches into open beta July 31

[Oberon]

For US and Canadian PS4 residents only however for those of us that dont live there but have a US account we should be able to try this too.Provided your internet connection is fast enough ofcourse.

Sony's streaming games service, PlayStation Now, launches into open beta tomorrow, July 31, on PlayStation 4 in the United States and Canada. If you're a PS4 owner in either of those countries, you'll be able to pay to play certain PlayStation 3 games without ever downloading them or putting a physical disc in the system. Even with so many new users about to begin using it in less than a day, there remain numerous questions about Now and how it'll work--questions Sony continues to avoid providing answers too.

GameSpot recently spoke with PlayStation Now senior director Jack Buser and Gaikai senior VP Robert Stevenson about the service, which they are happy to note is the first of its kind on consoles. Sony says more than 50 publishers have signed on to offer their games through Now, although an exact list of games planned for it has not been made available. (More will be added "all the time," according to Buser.) The company still won't give exact numbers for how much data you can expect Now to use--a real issue for those in dorms or with ISPs that have data caps--but Stevenson says, "You can think of it [as] very comparable to movie streaming. It's not exactly the same, but it's similar." We'd previously heard you will need a 5 megabits-per-second connection for a "good experience."

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[RobertoUK73]

How do you set up an UK and USA account?

 

[ajally123]

I still think it is too expensive to be a good service but hopefully the price goes down before it launches officially.

 

[Ciel]

I still think it is too expensive to be a good service but hopefully the price goes down before it launches officially.

It is too expensive to be a good service? That kind of does not make much sense. It is too expensive for what it offers, sure. I have been in the beta for a while now and have not liked it one bit. The games do not thrill me and the quality of the streams are pretty bad. I guess it is cool if you want to dabble, but blah, just not worth it.

 

[schoat333]

Its a good idea. Might take some time to smooth out the kinks tho.

I'm the type of person that plays a game for a few hours a week, over the course of a year or longer, so a streaming service wouldn't really work for me. Hopefully they have an actual purchase program instead of just rentals.

 

[Derri]

It is too expensive to be a good service? That kind of does not make much sense. It is too expensive for what it offers, sure. I have been in the beta for a while now and have not liked it one bit. The games do not thrill me and the quality of the streams are pretty bad. I guess it is cool if you want to dabble, but blah, just not worth it.

The cost of things is too expensive to begin with.

Someone did a test and found that a good majority of PS3 games offered in the beta could be bought (brand new, physical disk) for the asking price of a 3 month rental. To me that's a major flawed system.

 

[HACK7668]

is this a joke $5 to rent a game that was just free to ps plus for 4hrs and there ain't any good games are you kidding me sony is getting worse every month

 

[Bingo]

I imagine it'll get smoothed out. It's crazy at present, but it hasn't even been officially released yet.

Personally, I sort of wish there was a netflix of gaming. Pay a monthly fee to have access to streaming games at your leisure. When I want to play a classic game from my youth, I often feel like playing it for about ten or twenty minutes, and that'll tide me over for a couple months.

 

[Navii]

I just hope it's gonna be released to EU soon too, because I don't have an US account and I'd really want to try it out.

 

[Ciel]

I imagine it'll get smoothed out. It's crazy at present, but it hasn't even been officially released yet.

Personally, I sort of wish there was a netflix of gaming. Pay a monthly fee to have access to streaming games at your leisure. When I want to play a classic game from my youth, I often feel like playing it for about ten or twenty minutes, and that'll tide me over for a couple months.

I think Sony said PSOne and PS2 games will eventually make their way onto the service. It is both a matter of time and a matter of hoping the pricing model is amended. I am the same way, however. If I could just play some old games for even a few hours, that is good enough for me. Because really, I do not want to play them to rebeat them, just to nostalgia trip.

 

[Bingo]

I think Sony said PSOne and PS2 games will eventually make their way onto the service. It is both a matter of time and a matter of hoping the pricing model is amended. I am the same way, however. If I could just play some old games for even a few hours, that is good enough for me. Because really, I do not want to play them to rebeat them, just to nostalgia trip.

I'm not sure I could still COULD beat a lot of the games I played in my youth. The original Strider, for example. Or Shadow Dancer on Genesis. Those games were SO hard, I think I'd have an aneurysm trying to beat them these days. Classic games were very unforgiving and assumed a lot of free time spent devoted to it.

 

[Ciel]

I'm not sure I could still COULD beat a lot of the games I played in my youth. The original Strider, for example. Or Shadow Dancer on Genesis. Those games were SO hard, I think I'd have an aneurysm trying to beat them these days. Classic games were very unforgiving and assumed a lot of free time spent devoted to it.

Yup, pretty much. But it be nice to throw those games on for just a little bit. I have a game store that sells classics all the way down to TurboGraphx-16; I walk around the store and just browse because there is no way I want to spend $25 to play a game for an hour only to never pick it up again. Granted I have bought a few games just for the sake of owning them.

 

[Bingo]

Heh, I still have my TurboGrafx-16. Bonk, Legendary Axe and Alien Pinball are pretty fun. I freakin' hate Keith Courage. Worst launch game ever.

PS- They should totally add Bonk to Super Smash Bros lineup.

 

[Ciel]

Heh, I still have my TurboGrafx-16. Bonk, Legendary Axe and Alien Pinball are pretty fun. I freakin' hate Keith Courage. Worst launch game ever.

PS- They should totally add Bonk to Super Smash Bros lineup.

Bonk's Adventure was my first game. I sold it for like $35 two months ago. Not sure if that was a good deal or not. Keith Courage is... interesting. Bonk would be awesome in Super Smash.

 

[daimashin]

I really wanted to try it out but I didn't even get pass their connection test lol. I have about 2MB of speed but that didn't matter apparently, latency is the issue. From what I saw, there were only a handful of games that are free to play and they got removed I think. I thought about trying to play even though the test failed but I can't now.

 

[ajally123]

It is too expensive to be a good service? That kind of does not make much sense. It is too expensive for what it offers, sure. I have been in the beta for a while now and have not liked it one bit. The games do not thrill me and the quality of the streams are pretty bad. I guess it is cool if you want to dabble, but blah, just not worth it.

Well taking away the price factor. The service itself looks fine, haven't tried it myself but a service like this available is a great option. Obviously the price though is bringing it down. The games on offer I don't know all of them, if they are bad then it is only a matter of time before they put better titles on it. I am sure they will lower the price, many news outlets are writing negative articles about it.

 

[f_dog80]

If you want to play a game bad enough the price isn't that bad.
Obviously cheaper is better (unless we wanna talk about hookers??) seriously though, remember the days of renting video games?? The price to rent a game for a weekend you can get one on "now" for 3 months....
I rented one game for a week just to try it out, I wasn't going to pour a ton of money into it since I just got my PS4 and have a few new titles to be playing anyhow. But the PSNow service seems to work well, I thought it was worth a try.
But remember to sync your trophies in the emulated XMB before closing it out!

 

[Negative Zero]

Being an immigrant from Xbox territory, I would be more interested if there were some games on PS Now that I wasn't able to play on the 360. I'm talking Uncharted, Heavy Rain, Shadow of the Colossus, Journey, and so on. Where are those games?

 

[edogn12]

To expensive at the moment. I wouldnt consider renting a 5 year old game for 50 dollors at 90 days.