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PlayStation Now adds the ability to download from its catalog of games

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Perhaps one of the biggest complaints of Sony's game streaming service, PlayStation Now, was the issue of having to queue up, and play games streamed over an internet connection. This caused issues like latency, and if your connection wasn't good enough, you could wind up getting booted from the game entirely. As of today, however, Sony has changed the policy on PlayStation Now, allowing for subscribers to download games directly to their PlayStation 4's hard drive. You can even play your downloaded catalog of games entirely offline, so long as you check in online once every week. This new feature works for a majority of games on the service, including the PS2-on-PS4 titles. PlayStation is planning to roll out this new change within the next few days. If you've never tried PlayStation Now, you can get a 7 day free trial, in order to test it out.

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Xzi said:
Yeah, keeping > renting (physical or download) > streaming. A monthly fee for a digital rental service seems like a much better value than a fee for a streaming service. That said, none of it is really for me, each modern console only has about 15 exclusives worth playing at most. Far more efficient to just buy the games I want to play when the price is low enough, especially given the length of some of them.
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I may give it a try on the PS4, my brother's paying for it for him to use, so I may as well do the same now. Again, just to try it out.
 
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This looked like amazing news to me at first, as I can't stream from my region (probably... China)

But then I took a look at the list of games: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-now/ps-now-games/
- the list of PS4 games is long, but not very enticing
- I can't play PS3 games since they are stream-only
- the list of PS2 games is very short and uninteresting

so I guess I'll pass...
 
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So this basically what Nintendo I'd doing with the NES for their subscription. Now we need Nintendo to jump o. the wagon and release 64 and GameCube games on this type of service .
 
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Now if we could download PS3 games, this would be an instant buy, but I suppose it's something to do with the cell architecture, and that there have to run on special hardware in a server farm somewhere as opposed to PS2 Classics and PS4 games which can of course run directly on a PS4
 
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Clydefrosch said:
Sony does what Nintendidalready. Three times in a row now? 6.0, ps classic and now a subscribtion based service that required 7 day checkbacks?
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Woah there now nintendo fanboy...
FW 6.0 - PS4's was known about (and in beta) long before anyone knew there'd be a new Switch firmware.
Subscription service - PSNow was around long before the Switch even released. As for the '7 day check in' aspect, that's hardly Nintendo's concept - doesn't the Xbox gamepass service feature that, and hasn't that service been out for quite a while now?
The Classic - I'd give you that one... if it were a new idea when Nintendo did it, but there have been plug and plays and similar devices for years before Nintendo found yet another way of milking their 30 year catalogue of games. The only new thing Nintendo bought to the concept was fucking up basic supply and demand criteria.
 
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This is a huge step in the right direction. But ultimately it needs much more for me to consider it. First of all, why is it still double the price? The amount of games you can download in ps now is much less than game pass. Second, most of the ps4 games on there are not that big of a deal (some good ones, but I do not think they are worth a subscription that is double the price). The only games I would recommend from the ps4 lineup is bloodborne, Last of us remastered, god of war remastered, and maybe little big planet 3. Game pass adds exclusives day one they are released. And while they definitely need more exclusives (they have a couple that is interesting on the way like forza horizon 4, battletoads, and ori). They also include more recognizable games like Rocket League, Hitman, Doom 2016, Elder scrolls online, Fallout 4, Rise of the tomb raider, etc.

Other than that, I do not see myself subscribing unless I am going for the ps3 titles there. Which is unfortunately streaming only.

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Now if they add their other fantastic exclusives like Horizon Zero dawn, persona 5, Nioh, God of war 2018, etc, along with more blockbuster titles, and they drop the price. That is another story, I would subscribe right away
 
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Only the ps4? Cant pc benefit from this aswell? The games from psnow still count as rentals of course right?
 
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Ominous66521 said:
Only the ps4? Cant pc benefit from this aswell? The games from psnow still count as rentals of course right?
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For ps2 they probably dont want to distribute their roms to people since it would be pretty easy to crack whatever PC emulator they make, back up the games and run them without psnow. For ps3 and ps4 most people dont have pcs that could handle them, so streaming them to the PC is the only option.
 

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