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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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#5450900 Posted on: 07/09/2017 12:06 PM
Wait, you have to purchase a console to be able to play these games?
....
That completely defeats the only purpose i could ever imagine this system would exist....
I don't think you need PS4 console?...
Wait, you have to purchase a console to be able to play these games?
....
That completely defeats the only purpose i could ever imagine this system would exist....
I don't think you need PS4 console?...
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#5451176 Posted on: 07/10/2017 03:37 PM
No MGS4 in the library? What a joke. I would subscribe for that game.
Also, does it really have to be a Dualshock? Can't I just use an Xbox controller?
No MGS4 in the library? What a joke. I would subscribe for that game.
Also, does it really have to be a Dualshock? Can't I just use an Xbox controller?
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#5451220 Posted on: 07/10/2017 05:09 PM
There were stories out of folks at OnLive that they never had any business. I think one of them said they never had more than 2000 users online at the same time. The owner had planned to spin that up, build some hype, then sell it while it was still in the proof of concept phase, but no one bit. They weren't making any money, so they had to fold up shop.
On another gaming board I'm on, we had a big thread with about 50 members chime in. About 15 of us tried PSNow, a couple folks said they had tried OnLive in the past, and one guy gave GeForce Now a shot. No one had an experience that was responsive enough to replace a console or PC.
I'd like to give you a person that did have a good enough experience then. I had Geforce now, for the free trial they had around the shield launch, if I remember correctly. I recall playing one of the Batmans, Tomb Raider, and Orcs must die. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them, didn't have any complaints as to quality or FPS, found it to be very easy to use with essentially no setup or special care required, and don't feel, given a blind test, I could've seen the difference in latency between a local console and the streaming experience.
There's a lot of talk as to the latency that goes around, but I find it to be mostly unfounded, at least in many places in the US. Ping to the Nvidia servers (according to their application, for me) is around 15ms. 15ms is the response time difference between a really good mouse and a decent mouse and I don't see many people basing their mouse choices on real world response times.
The truth is, Nvidia has done a lot of work to minimize the latencies where possible, and hide them where it's not. I have a strong belief that, given a good connection, and given relative proximity to the Nvidia servers, a person would be unable to determine reliably if they were local or streaming based on latency alone.
That said, geographic factors could influence this for some people, its just important to mention that it can be a good experience and shouldn't be written off.
As to PS Now, I found the library to be embarrassingly anemic. It has not a single game I want to play.
No MGS4 in the library? What a joke. I would subscribe for that game.
Also, does it really have to be a Dualshock? Can't I just use an Xbox controller?
You can, but you obviously lose the touchpad and other dual shock-specific features, which could make some games unplayable, in theory.
Wait, you have to purchase a console to be able to play these games?
....
That completely defeats the only purpose i could ever imagine this system would exist....
No, you don't. I don't own a PS4, and did the trial.
Having to buy a console to play (stream) said games on PC completely defeats the whole purpose of this in the first place. What a stupid idea.
Hardly stupid, console exclusives aren't going away anytime soon, so some method of playing them is better than none. If their library weren't subpar, I'd much rather the low monthly entry fee for a few games than having to buy an entire PS4. Just because you don't want it doesn't mean it's stupid.
There were stories out of folks at OnLive that they never had any business. I think one of them said they never had more than 2000 users online at the same time. The owner had planned to spin that up, build some hype, then sell it while it was still in the proof of concept phase, but no one bit. They weren't making any money, so they had to fold up shop.
On another gaming board I'm on, we had a big thread with about 50 members chime in. About 15 of us tried PSNow, a couple folks said they had tried OnLive in the past, and one guy gave GeForce Now a shot. No one had an experience that was responsive enough to replace a console or PC.
I'd like to give you a person that did have a good enough experience then. I had Geforce now, for the free trial they had around the shield launch, if I remember correctly. I recall playing one of the Batmans, Tomb Raider, and Orcs must die. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them, didn't have any complaints as to quality or FPS, found it to be very easy to use with essentially no setup or special care required, and don't feel, given a blind test, I could've seen the difference in latency between a local console and the streaming experience.
There's a lot of talk as to the latency that goes around, but I find it to be mostly unfounded, at least in many places in the US. Ping to the Nvidia servers (according to their application, for me) is around 15ms. 15ms is the response time difference between a really good mouse and a decent mouse and I don't see many people basing their mouse choices on real world response times.
The truth is, Nvidia has done a lot of work to minimize the latencies where possible, and hide them where it's not. I have a strong belief that, given a good connection, and given relative proximity to the Nvidia servers, a person would be unable to determine reliably if they were local or streaming based on latency alone.
That said, geographic factors could influence this for some people, its just important to mention that it can be a good experience and shouldn't be written off.
As to PS Now, I found the library to be embarrassingly anemic. It has not a single game I want to play.
No MGS4 in the library? What a joke. I would subscribe for that game.
Also, does it really have to be a Dualshock? Can't I just use an Xbox controller?
You can, but you obviously lose the touchpad and other dual shock-specific features, which could make some games unplayable, in theory.
Wait, you have to purchase a console to be able to play these games?
....
That completely defeats the only purpose i could ever imagine this system would exist....
No, you don't. I don't own a PS4, and did the trial.
Having to buy a console to play (stream) said games on PC completely defeats the whole purpose of this in the first place. What a stupid idea.
Hardly stupid, console exclusives aren't going away anytime soon, so some method of playing them is better than none. If their library weren't subpar, I'd much rather the low monthly entry fee for a few games than having to buy an entire PS4. Just because you don't want it doesn't mean it's stupid.
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#5451406 Posted on: 07/11/2017 03:13 AM
No, you don't. I don't own a PS4, and did the trial.
Good, because that would be stupid of sony lol
No, you don't. I don't own a PS4, and did the trial.
Good, because that would be stupid of sony lol
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Wait, you have to purchase a console to be able to play these games?
....
That completely defeats the only purpose i could ever imagine this system would exist....