Sony Has A New Feature Coming For The PS4.
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Does that 1 hour include buffer time
For me, it'd be a deal killer.. . I haz slow interwebz
i haven't seen.. but I have, at best a 4mbps connection... so any sort of digital delivery of a 20-40GB game for me to play won't happen in an hour. Streaming would be extremely low res/quality. So as a result, this is something I don't have any vested interest in.
Hmmm....I do not know. I recall Sony saying you need 5mbps (1MB/s) for a good experience with PS Now, so you might be ok. With it being a free feature at least you can try it out with no commitments.
I like to keep up on all of the news because I fully intend on getting one as soon as I get a new job... but for now, I have to stay one console at home 
I always own them all, I find a way to get them so I can play whatever I want without having to be a foot stomping, cry baby ass fanboy.
I always own them all, I find a way to get them so I can play whatever I want without having to be a foot stomping, cry baby ass fanboy.
everything that's "free" is not always bad. look at PlayStation Plus "free" games every month. i'm just saying... i won't say that the service will be perfect, but ANYTHING at this magnitude is most certainly a great thing and a revolution to playing together
FYI, PlayStation Now is currently in beta. you refer to it as if it is complete.
no one said it needs to be perfect this early, I'm one of the only ppl on this forum I know of that used PS now and enjoyed it and see the potential, but as my opinion remains, it needs alot of work.
Well to be fair, someone else mentioned that PS Now works great in its current state.
My view on this feature is that it sounds great. But if they could allow but limit local download, it would be better. It's probably too complex to do that. I don't know.
that's fine. but, going off your original post, and the issues you presented, i thought it be best to give you an example of what a finished service can entail (PlayStation Plus monthly games) even when its free. therefore, I thought it was a bit premature to compare and pass judgement based on your experience of a free beta service (PlayStation Now) to a completely different service (Share Play) that is final, yet free.
all I am saying is, even to the most pessimistic, even if Share Play doesn't turn out to meet every single player's expectation, just because it's free does not mean the service will turn out bad as both a service or feature to gamers just because you had a bad experience some place else.
imagine this for a second: someone sends you an invite to join their team while you are in a totally different game. usually, you have to take one disc out and fire up the other game in which they sent you the invite. already is this way too cumbersome and that's with you actually having the game on hand. imagine having to download every single game to which you were invited to. it is almost pointless joining by then.
an invite is what Share Play basically is.
playstation now is free? Not for me. And share play is final? So people are using share play?
So Share play will be like an hour long demo where you can invite your friends to play your games?
yup, and save your progress, too. not entirely certain, but i think you can send out more than one invite to the same person after a set period of time. i have to find out where I got the information.
ok i found a source related to the interview. misinterpretation from one of the sources though. seem invites can be sent more than once but for different games.
http://kotaku.com/how-digital-game-sharing-on-the-ps4-will-work-1621424897
http://kotaku.com/how-digital-game-sharing-on-the-ps4-will-work-1621424897
Only saves to the "hosts" machine though, the person sharing the game doesn't get anything saved.
Oh most definitely, especially since its a free service. It should only get better, quality/tech, as time goes on too.
It may give people on the fence about certain games a better impression of those games than what a short demo could present.
It's cool and a bit meh too.
It's cool and a bit meh too.
That is crazy talk. In a world where people bitch about 100Pixels a streaming service doing 720P should get some biblical backlash.
This isn't a bad feature to have. I still wish we got to see the family share plan play out on the One.
Yeah, hopefully it comes to fruition some day. Though you can still share full games with a "family" member now.
a lot of people don't think about this, but something like this can prove extremely useful with the new online features. for instance, during spectator mode on twitch and ustream, this basically allows users to view and communicate (text....and later on voice chat) with other players live. I see many PlayStation users using this to make new friends just to play betas or just the newest game on the block. something like this can also prove helpful for assist on twitch or ustream. countless times have people gone on there just to receive help in getting pass a certain area. with share invites, the assist mode is hands on seamless.