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PlayStation 4 games will be playable on PC
Sony has announced that users of its service, PlayStation Now, will be able to play PlayStation 4 titles on all platforms which support the service.
Sony also boasted about how the service now feature 500 titles across two console generations. Even though the starting library is small relating to PS4 games, Sony will continue to add more games to PlayStation Now as they go along. From today, you will be able to play the following games.
I’m excited to announce that as of today, the PlayStation Now library includes PS4 games! This lineup is just the start, as we’ll add more PS4 games in the coming months alongside our regular monthly content drops.
On top of that, PS Now’s library has now ticked to over 500 games. That’s a massive range of games to explore and play, all with one subscription, the push of a button, play on your PS4 or Windows PC. With PlayStation exclusives like Killzone Shadow Fall and The Last of US, hit blockbusters such as Red Dead Redemption and Batman Arkham City, indie games like Journey and Broken Age, and many more, the PS Now library really has something for everyone.
Now is the perfect time to try PS Now, or upgrade your existing subscription. By popular demand we are bringing back our $9.99 intro offer for the first month (new subscribers only), and the 1-year subscription for $99.99. That’s less than $9 a month for a full year of on-demand access to an ever-expanding library of PS4 and PS3 games to stream any time you want. Start streaming today because this offer is only available until September 22, 2017.
Here is the full list of all of the new PS4 games available as of today on PlayStation Now. We’ve got a variety of genres, from FPS, action adventure, RTS, fighting, racing, and more.
- Killzone Shadow Fall
- God of War 3 Remastered
- Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
- WWE 2K16
- Tropico 5
- Ultra Street Fighter IV
- F1 2015
- Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
- Evolve
- MX vs ATV Supercross Encore
- Resogun
- Helldivers
- Broken Age
- Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Akiba’s Beat
- Castlestorm Definitive Edition
- Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky
- Nidhogg
- Super Mega Baseball
We already have 100 publishers in the service, with plenty more great PS4 and PS3 content coming this year and next from SIE and other top publishers such as 2K, Aksys, Capcom, Codemasters, Deep Silver, Double Fine, Kalypso, Loot Interactive, MESSHOF, Metalhead, NIS America, Ripstone, SNK, THQ Nordic, XSEED, Zen Studios, and more.
Regardless of the platform, PlayStation Now is all about great games. Some of the best games ever released were on PS3, many of which are available on PS Now. Here are the top most popular 20 PS3 games on the service so far this year.
- Red Dead Redemption
- Mortal Kombat
- WWE 2K15
- Injustice: Gods Among Us
- The Last of Us
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Mafia II
- NBA 2K14
- Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
- Sonic Generations
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Batman Arkham Origins
- Saint’s Row IV
- BEYOND: Two Souls
- Saint’s Row 2
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
- LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
- Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
- God of War III
- Sonic Adventure 2
Streaming games via PS Now allows you to access other cool PlayStation features. Unlock both PS3 and PS4 trophies, send and receive multiplayer invites (PlayStation Plus not required for online multiplayer within PS Now), and your gameplay status updates will be seen by your friend list. You can also copy your PS4 save files back and forth between your PS Plus cloud storage (PS Plus subscription required) and the PS Now cloud save storage. That way, you can continue your game where you left off if you end up buying it later, or want to finish playing a game on PS Now with your own save file.
If you haven’t given the service a try yet, now’s the perfect time to give it a spin with the seven-day free trial on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Note that in order to take advantage of the $9.99 intro offer, you will need to purchase that directly, as the 7-day trial will transition into the standard monthly subscription.
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#5450457 Posted on: 07/07/2017 08:08 PM
. It doesnt imply you can set everything like a native pc game. its pretty clear to me its a streaming service. just like spotify.
I dont need to to control resolution, quality is ok-ish. its not terrible as people make it out to be tbh.
Building a emulator for pc gives a lot of problems. One of the reasons why microsoft chose their way of backwards compatibility. (which is download the game when you got the disc inserted).
looking at emulators, well ps2/gamecube ones still have problems. that just says all about it.
it stands and falls with people's internet connection though.
Would be nice if they would create a benchmark test to see if it makes sense for people to get it at all.
in case people start to blame sony, when they should look at other things.
Things will improve as well over time, better compression, less latency. This is the future when it comes to playing anything you want.
But what's the point in saying "Yay (insert game here) is on PC!" when it reality it is not? I'm not trying to be nitpicky here, i just don't understand being excited for something that it isn't?
I'm not saying that streaming is bad, i personally don't like it, but i understand why some people do. But none of these games are available on the PC, or even playable on the PC. Playable through as an interface, and only an interface, sure, but it's not playable ON the PC.
You just assume streaming is a bad thing. I personally played through Red Dead Redemption in December without a hiccup.
I got way more use out of psnow than 100 bucks. Once all your internets catch up (100/10 here) psnow isnt that bad. Competitive FPS is out tho.
In general, it's not bandwidth that is an issue, it is latency. Sure, improvements can be made to optimize server/client software to minimize latency, but you can't get rid of it all. A faster internet connection will not matter if you're too far away from one of the playstation now servers, or the route that its taking is longer then it should, or you have a bad connection consistantly somewhere between you and the server you are hooked up to.
Honestly, game streaming isn't exciting to me unless there is a server in every single city with 30,000+ people in it, and that'll likely never happen.
You can't beat light speed.
As far as i can tell, you can't even tell where the server locations are for playstation now, which basically means "try our service, and hope you are near one of our servers"
. It doesnt imply you can set everything like a native pc game. its pretty clear to me its a streaming service. just like spotify.
I dont need to to control resolution, quality is ok-ish. its not terrible as people make it out to be tbh.
Building a emulator for pc gives a lot of problems. One of the reasons why microsoft chose their way of backwards compatibility. (which is download the game when you got the disc inserted).
looking at emulators, well ps2/gamecube ones still have problems. that just says all about it.
it stands and falls with people's internet connection though.
Would be nice if they would create a benchmark test to see if it makes sense for people to get it at all.
in case people start to blame sony, when they should look at other things.
Things will improve as well over time, better compression, less latency. This is the future when it comes to playing anything you want.
But what's the point in saying "Yay (insert game here) is on PC!" when it reality it is not? I'm not trying to be nitpicky here, i just don't understand being excited for something that it isn't?
I'm not saying that streaming is bad, i personally don't like it, but i understand why some people do. But none of these games are available on the PC, or even playable on the PC. Playable through as an interface, and only an interface, sure, but it's not playable ON the PC.
You just assume streaming is a bad thing. I personally played through Red Dead Redemption in December without a hiccup.
I got way more use out of psnow than 100 bucks. Once all your internets catch up (100/10 here) psnow isnt that bad. Competitive FPS is out tho.
In general, it's not bandwidth that is an issue, it is latency. Sure, improvements can be made to optimize server/client software to minimize latency, but you can't get rid of it all. A faster internet connection will not matter if you're too far away from one of the playstation now servers, or the route that its taking is longer then it should, or you have a bad connection consistantly somewhere between you and the server you are hooked up to.
Honestly, game streaming isn't exciting to me unless there is a server in every single city with 30,000+ people in it, and that'll likely never happen.
You can't beat light speed.
As far as i can tell, you can't even tell where the server locations are for playstation now, which basically means "try our service, and hope you are near one of our servers"
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#5450478 Posted on: 07/07/2017 09:16 PM
I could use this, for RPG games that never hits PC platform, like Persona 4
internet connection speed should be no issue here for me.
I could use this, for RPG games that never hits PC platform, like Persona 4
internet connection speed should be no issue here for me.
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#5450480 Posted on: 07/07/2017 09:18 PM
I don't know...garbage in...garbage out...
Just because you stream it to a far more powerful Windows box isn't going to make it any better...and it will likely be worse because of unavoidable delays and lags. An in-depth review would be nice, however, at least to read and look at... With plenty of IQ comparisons...
I don't know...garbage in...garbage out...
Just because you stream it to a far more powerful Windows box isn't going to make it any better...and it will likely be worse because of unavoidable delays and lags. An in-depth review would be nice, however, at least to read and look at... With plenty of IQ comparisons...
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#5450488 Posted on: 07/07/2017 09:40 PM
Yep. I suspect they have to have some custom support for each version of the PS Now app, and it wasn't doing enough business to support the maintenance.
I think we'll see Sony scuttle the service completely within a year or two. It requires a top-of-the-line Network to implement well (which is still inferior to local hardware), and Sony has the cheapest, crappiest network of the three major platforms. If they can't afford to build a network as good as Valve has, they will never get Streaming off the ground. Hell, even if they did, that hasn't helped GeForce Now...
Personally, I'll never use streaming. I tried PS Now a while back and it was unplayable, then Sony terminated my stream 5 minutes in due to low bandwidth. While it was working, the controller lag was atrocious.
Well that abit crap, this is ideal for people who want a pretty much hardware free living room.
Yep. I suspect they have to have some custom support for each version of the PS Now app, and it wasn't doing enough business to support the maintenance.
I think we'll see Sony scuttle the service completely within a year or two. It requires a top-of-the-line Network to implement well (which is still inferior to local hardware), and Sony has the cheapest, crappiest network of the three major platforms. If they can't afford to build a network as good as Valve has, they will never get Streaming off the ground. Hell, even if they did, that hasn't helped GeForce Now...
Personally, I'll never use streaming. I tried PS Now a while back and it was unplayable, then Sony terminated my stream 5 minutes in due to low bandwidth. While it was working, the controller lag was atrocious.
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Well that abit crap, this is ideal for people who want a pretty much hardware free living room.