Sony Has A New Feature Coming For The PS4.

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Sony Has A New Feature Coming For The PS4 That Will Bury The Xbox One

http://www.businessinsider.com/sonys-ps4-sharing-feature-is-a-game-changer-2014-8#ixzz3BKPOj73j

Amid all the exciting announcements coming out of last week’s Gamescom trade show in Cologne, Germany, Sony announced a handful of new features coming in its 2.0 firmware for PlayStation 4.

And while firmware is rarely anything to get excited about, this particular update is different — because it will effectively help Sony put distance between itself and Microsoft’s Xbox One.

The big reason? “Share Play,” which was promised when Sony announced the PS4 at E3, is a feature that allows you to play with any of your PlayStation Network friends over the internet — even if you don’t own the game. (It's free to register a PSN account.)

This particular feature uses just a single copy of your game that is run locally on one system, and then you or others can invite your friends to play that game with you by streaming it to their consoles. So if you own a racing game that your friends don't have, you can still play your game with them online (think an HBO Go password, but more social).

But there’s more:

“For example, if there is part of a game that you can’t quite finish, you can invite a friend to take over your controls,” Sony says on its blog. “Like handing over the controller to a friend on your couch, your screen will be shared as your friend gets through the part of the game that has been giving you trouble.”

Share Play sounds extremely promising as a potential game changer for this generation of consoles. Still, Sony says it will limit "Share Play" sessions to one hour each, and lag may unfortunately affect how enjoyable this user feature is. We’ll have to see how well the functionality works in practice.

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Here's more on Share Play, directly from The PlayStation Blog.

The best way to think about Share Play is like a “virtual couch”. PlayStation 4 will create an online local co-op experience by allowing you to invite a friend to join your game—even when they don’t own a copy of it. With this first-of-its-kind feature, you’ll be able to play games with a friend just as if you were together in the same room. Let’s say that with games… you’ll be able to invite your friend online to play against the Miami Heat for the championship as the San Antonio Spurs in NBA2K, tackle the challenging Towerfall Ascension Quest Mode together, or aide, heal, and protect you as Igniculus in Child of Light’s local co-op mode.

With Share Play, you can even jump into a game to assist a friend. For example, if there is part of a game that you can’t quite finish, you can invite a friend to take over your controls. Like handing over the controller to a friend on your couch, your screen will be shared as your friend gets through the part of the game that has been giving you trouble—can’t get past that part in The Last of Us: Remastered when you’re hanging upside down? Get a little help from your friend.
 
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What I find so cool about this is it effectively turns every local co-op game into an online co-op game. And we'll be able to try out all of our friends games. Hope it works!
 
Lolz @flame bait title.
Nice feature but it won't bury anything.
 
The second player, does he download the game or is it streamed to him?
Because if it's streamed there is going to be lag depending on player ones upload bandwidth.
 
Dr D Wayne Love said:
I don't think my internet would be good enough to do that, I'm only on about 1mbps up.
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Yeah we'll have to see how it works. That's the problem with streaming, you can't guarantee that everyone is going to have the same experience.
 
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Streaming renders it a complete hit or miss, with more miss than hit. With the latency seen already with the current streaming of PS4 games to local devices, this feature would have even more latency than that. It's a cool feature in principle but I don't see it as being that usable because it's streamed. If it was a local download, then we're talking.
 
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft would totally be incapable of revamping their Family Share plan to something similar or better.
 
Apart from the stupid Sony fanboy thread title. I thought the story was going to say "free shovel with every PS4 "

Can only but hope it works. Unlike the share button that seldom works now.
 
oo Yungstar oo said:
Apart from the stupid Sony fanboy thread title. I thought the story was going to say "free shovel with every PS4 "

Can only but hope it works. Unlike the share button that seldom works now.
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Huh? my share button works just fine and always has.
 
Plainview said:
Streaming renders it a complete hit or miss, with more miss than hit. With the latency seen already with the current streaming of PS4 games to local devices, this feature would have even more latency than that. It's a cool feature in principle but I don't see it as being that usable because it's streamed. If it was a local download, then we're talking.
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PS Now works just fine. I don't know that we can say more miss than hit with this new feature yet without actually seeing it in action but if that is how it works out I wouldn't be surprised.
 
JinCA said:
PS Now works just fine. I don't know that we can say more miss than hit yet without actually seeing it in action first but if that is how it works out I wouldn't be surprised.
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PS Now is being rendered on a server. I was talking about how the PS4 streams games to your other devices, your local games and devices. That's what this is doing. It's rendering on someone's else's Ps4 then being streamed to your PS4.
 
JinCA said:
That would be funnier if it were actually true, MS could never even explain what they were doing with sharing properly.
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I understood it quite well, J. Anybody in your circle could play any game in your library at anytime, one person at a time, not including you.
 
Was going to say the XB1 game sharing thing was pretty well explained I thought.
However, the delivery system (Mattrick LOL GTFO) was like listening to a blind man shop for shoes.
 
Plainview said:
I understood it quite well, J. Anybody in your circle could play any game in your library at anytime, one person at a time, not including you.
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They also said one person at a time period including the owner of the game so if I owned it and was playing it you couldn't "borrow" it until I was done, they said many different things and that was the problem. Each person who explained it did it differently so that leads me to believe they never actually had it sorted out completely. There were also going to be time limits no matter what MS says, publishers would never have gone for unlimited playtime. Look how sharing with FC4 works on PS4, each session has a limited duration.
 
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PS Now is being rendered on a server. I was talking about how the PS4 streams games to your other devices, your local games and devices. That's what this is doing. It's rendering on someone's else's Ps4 then being streamed to your PS4.
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Ah ok, I didn't read your post properly.
 
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They also said one person at a time period including the owner of the game so if I owned it and was playing it you couldn't "borrow" it until I was done, they said many different things and that was the problem. Each person who explained it did it differently so that leads me to believe they never actually had it sorted out completely.
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Well have to agree to disagree for now so we don't deviate the thread too much. Mattrick ftl and we'll move on.
 
Implementation will be interesting.

One thing I can applause Sony is that they seems keen wanted to take the leading in term of new tech/features, instead of being a follower like previous gen, & it showings so far. I was expecting more of these are from MS, not Sony.

I do not think all all be successful, but some of the things of my head that they leaded (correct me if I am wrong) this gen.

- Free games with paid subscriptions
.-VR (WIP though)
- Share play
- Twitch
- Preload
- PS Now
- PS TV
 
lol the OP was always projecting this humble, non biased gamer attitude, but then posts a title like that. lmao another stealth failure.
 
What is the quality going to be like ? It says the game is streamed to your friend, if this is not good quality, low latency, and consistent then this will ultimately be a waste of time.
 
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What is the quality going to be like ? It says the game is streamed to your friend, if this is not good quality, low latency, and consistent then this will ultimately be a waste of time.
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From what I've heard it will be 720P. Just like the streams now.
 
Yoyoniner said:
If you can find a single person on here who didn't like the idea of MS's family sharing plan, I'll donate to the site. Nothing is stopping them from doing it for those who have a connection.
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I'm sure they will now that Sony is introducing their version of it.
 
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