Playstation Now

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Signed up for free trial, Mafia 2 is as brilliant as a remember, maybe a bit clunkier. Ton of games I've added to my list. Will keep me going a while.

Arkham Origins
Bioshock 1, 2, infinite
Borderlands1 GOTY
Deadlight
Everybody's Golf
Fallout 3 & New Vegas
God of War's
Guacamelee
Heavy rain
Ico
journey
Mafia 2
Olli Olli 2
Telltale poker night 2
Pure holdem
Read dead redemption & undead nm
Silent hill collection
Sniper elite 2 & 3
Soma
Spec ops the line
The last of us & left behind
Vanishing of Ethan carter
Until dawn

Did you have any save on PS cloud, they're meant to work with NOW.

Varik wrote: »

Did you have any save on PS cloud, they're meant to work with NOW.

I can't remember what saves I had on my cloud from my PS3 days but I'm so happy to have Mafia 2 and red dead playable again. No issues with Mafia 2 play wise, no lag or anything.

Mass effect trilogy would suit this perfectly.

Loving my play through of red dead, and looking forward to going through Mafia 2 after it. With far cry out next week, gonna hold off on subscribing but will definitely go back to it, buying 1 month and taking it from there.

ItsHoggie wrote: »

Played through Red Dead a few months back on PS3, it was so good to be able to able to use the DS4.

Does anyone know if trophies unlock when playing through Now?

Yupp trophies unlock as normal. You can check through the PS3 style menu and they also show up on the PS4 trophy menu.

keyboard_cat wrote: »

Anyone know if i subscribe to ps now with the Canadian user on my PS4 will I be able to access the ps now games on my Irish PS4 account or can the games only be started from the Canadian user?

i am wonder this to ,anyone know the answer ?

NikoTopps wrote: »

i am wonder this to ,anyone know the answer ?

It seems to sorta work... I tested using my irish PsNow trial and a canadian user on my ps4 (no PsNow sub)
I went to start a PsNow game on my Canadian user and it timed out and said "game not available"
I then switched to Irish user and started a PsNow game and exited the game and switched back to Canadian user.
Canadian user was now able to play any PsNow game that had been added to dashboard (cannot access PsNow app)

(Im guessing this process can be switched get PsNow in Canadian $ for cheap and play on Irish account)

I dont have PsPlus on my canadian account so i am not sure if online works with this method

Varik wrote: »

The trials will be per account, so nothing to stop someone trying.

Just set up a trail with a foreign region account and see, the only other thing is if a Canadian account will only use the Canadian servers and again a trial will show that as the latency will be huge.

Apparently servers are picked based on physical location like Netflix (according to people on reddit so take that with a pinch of salt)
Is there a way to get a foreign trial without a foreign credit card or buying topup vouchers?

PlayStation Ireland have a competition to win 1of 10 month subscriptions for ps now. Just have to comment on their FB post.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1752259091499169&id=112781868780241

https://twitter.com/PlayStationEU/status/981504888260780032?s=19

Does anyone know if there's a yearly sub to PS Now? Or is €20 a month the only option, a month would barely be enough time to replay Red Dead for me

Zero-Cool wrote: »

In think it's 15 a month. I made it half way through Mexico in my week trial, I'd say a month would do it. Strange they don't have a yearly sub.

My bad 15 is correct. If they don't have a year option then I'll just wait til I know I'll have enough time in a month to get it done, before October of course.

Anyone having problems with there connection recently? It was playing/working perfectly for me for the all of the first week I had it now I keep getting a message that it's not available right now due to a bad connection?

Kingp35 wrote: »

Does anyone know if I unsubscribe for a month and then subscribe again, will my save files still be available? Can I continue to play from where I was at in a game when I unsubscribed?

It seems so.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/3objbz/does_ps_now_keep_my_saves_if_my_subscription/

Tried the trial for ps now...

Jesus it's shocking bad

I have a 150 Meg line hardwired to console and struggling to hold a connection...

Also the games look like pixelated ****e.

Who would actually pay for that service

Xbox gamepass is amazing value for money Sony really need to get the finger out

Xbox are shooting ahead

Tried the trial and it worked perfectly so I signed up. Ever since then it's unplayable. Literally unplayable, it plays for a couple of minutes stuttering, then the game closes because it says the connection isn't strong enough. This happening for anyone else the last week or so? Not sure if it's my connection or the ps now service.

Penn wrote: »

https://www.vg247.com/2018/06/15/playstation-now-download-feature-rumour/

Rumours that they may be getting ready to allow downloading of games rather than streaming, like Xbox Gamepass does. This would definitely make me consider signing up.

It still wouldn't compete with Gamepass in terms of value for money as I doubt they'll give away first party games on it at launch, and even then it's still more expensive than Gamepass anyway, but considering the library of PS2 and PS3 games they could put on it, it'd still be worth the money imo (provided you could download as per above posts where people struggle streaming even with a strong internet speed).

I'd be very surprised if the PS4 can emulate PS3 games.
The architecture change from Cell to x86 will require a huge overhead of processing for the PS4.

Didn't even think of that, bit of a difference between streaming PS3 games and downloading them to run on a ps4.

kunst nugget wrote: »

There's plenty of PS3 games on the Now service so it can't be that much of an issue.

That would be streaming though, not playing directly from a PS4, so it's not using the PS4 architecture to actually play the game.

I did read that there may be some trouble with PS3 games alright. Think I read emulators generally need 10 times more power than the original source or something. Apparently it's fairly difficult to emulate the PS3 architecture.

Maybe the option will only be there for PS4 games on PS Now.

kunst nugget wrote: »

I read a bit more in the meantime and my answer does across a tad slow… If they are looking at a download option to the service though, maybe they've come up with a different form of emulation, who knows.

Well that's it, if anyone knows how to best break down the architecture of the PS3 and be able to emulate it on a PS4, it's Sony. Maybe they have found a way to do it. I think I did read that the PS4 architecture actually could be capable of doing it, but it's take time and money on Sony's part to figure it out. Maybe now they have, hence the resurgence of interest in PS Now in recent months (as I'd barely heard it mentioned in the past year or two until a recent update bumped it back onto my PS menu)

OhHiMark wrote: »

That recent update was it being released in Ireland.

Oh yeah. Forgot it was never actually out here before that. To be honest I've never had much interest in it at all as it is. If it let you download games, I'd give it a shot.

As this change allows you to download a digital copy of a PS4 game from their sub library it's be nice if it went the other way as well, if you had a digital copy you'd get access to that game on Now.

There'd be a cost involved for Sony but using Now, but it'd be another plus for buying from their store. Maybe have PS plus as a requirement.