PlayStation Now Open Beta for Vita is now available!
So yea the PSNow app is up (at least in NA) for Vita and Vita TV
For those unaware of PSNow it is a game streaming service where you rent a game for a set amount of time and can then stream it to any PSNow certified device, Which as of this post is PS3/PS4/Vita. SCE has plans of enabling it for some phones and TV’s as well.
Now thats cool and all but there is one glaring problem that SCE seems to ignore, The pricing. See as of right now you can rent a game (Killzone 3 for this example) for $2.99 for 4 hours , I don’t know if it’s 4 hours from purchase or of game time but yea that sucks.
Update: I can now confirm that yes the timer does indeed keep going once you start the game for the first time, I played Killzone 3 up till the part where you need to run from Visari’s palace (after the intro walking around bit) and stopped to play me some Minecraft, a few hours later and the game says it’s expired. Thats a big no no SCE :/ [Sarcastic Note from Wololo: Were you also expecting the 90 days offer to be 2160 hours of gameplay? That’s basically 4 years of video game time for me!]
The other renting options are 7 Days for $5.99, 30 Days for $7.99 and 90 Days for $14.99.
These prices might not sound bad to some but it seems outrageous to me, I could buy Killzone 3 for the price of the 90 day rent. PSNow really should be a subscription based program either included with PS+ or as a standalone sub with maybe an add-on option to PS+ so it costs less if you have both.
But how is the actual service! You yell at me, Well unfortunately my interwebz sucks so I do not have that 5Mbps that SCE recommends but I rented Killzone 3 to test things out anyway.
First off I tried the “Test Connection” option to see what it would say.
Cool so I passed! Sweet! Now lets rent us some Killzone 3
A bit of loading latter and….
For those of you that have played Killzone 3 then yep no lag at all on that opening video, In fact there was almost no lag at all, Damn does she stream beautifly.
And now for what happens if you press the PS button!(plus some more pics from my phone since PSNow disables screenshots!)
Honestly other than that stupid pricing scheme I have nothing but good things to say about PSNow, Killzone 3 played perfectly with almost 0 lag and even when there was lag it was only for a sec which fortunately it was few and far between, Now that was Singleplayer campaign so what about multi right? Welp it is a tad laggy for me but overall it is very much playable.
I think if it were subscription based it would be much better. Have a tier pricing system where you get so much time and so many games per pricing tier. And like Fate said, a discount for having PSPlus.
not for us, goodbay PSNow 🙁
yes! that is bad goodbye PSNOW!
Watch your data cap go over and people who live in rural will never be apply to use it and it waste of money
just buy the download and physical card over rent. if you rent then you kill off the used trading
The problem is there is no download or card for Killzone 3, It is a PS3 game after all.
I can now confirm that yes the timer does indeed keep going once you start the game for the first time, I played Killzone 3 up till the part where you need to run from Visari’s palace (after the intro walking around bit) and stopped to play me some Minecraft, a few hours later and the game says it’s expired.
Thats a big no no SCE :/
@fate6 Is there a way to try this on fw 3.18 or 3.20?
No idea but you could try a proxy if those are still working.
i can confirm that the proxy trick does work with ps now! have a good day :3
@jjoethaking Thanks! 🙂
If it were subsciption based it would be okay I guess.
If you owned the games digitally and wanted to stream it instead of loading off the hard drive that would be cool.
I am playing Saint Row 2 on vita it is freaking Awesome =D
which games are there? god of war 3?
God of war collection and acension.
Trying to charge me a rental fee for games I already own digitally through PSN = a big fat NO from me. I’ll stick with remote play
Yeah, they kinda should let you play the games you already own through PSN without any time limits. Also, this sounds like a longer and paid version of those PS+ Timed Trials. What is with Sony and making the time limit start when you first play the game regardless of whether you’re actually playing it or not?
The rent for 30 and 90days is rather cheap. Electricity, BW, Hardware – they all cost money (in fact if you play 24/7 they will be at huge loss). Not to mention the deveolopment cost (most likely the servers have same parts of the original consoles, since SW emulation is quite impossible for PS3 with the current HW). And who whill provide you service if he doesn’t earn money from it. As for the 4h and 7days… welll when you buy game you pay the full price even if you play it only for 10mins.
What is the situation with the trophies?
Some of the screenshots i couldn’t see, but from the ones i could see, i assume that you can’t assign keys the way you want? just 4 fixed settings?
This is somethin i hate about Remoteplay, and with a service that costs money, it would *** me off even more.
It can’t be that freaking hard to offer a customizable controll setting!
Yea sorry about that, I will change the pic links to something else so this doesn’t happen again.
It’s all good, i didn’t mean to complain about the pics 😀
Is there a way to try this service with Vita running on FW 3.01?
Am I able to play “The Last of Us” on this app, on my Vita? Can someone confirm this?
I don’t recall seeing it on the list of games.
Wait, there is a compatibility list? Smh, I’ll look it up.
I heard a rumor the the high price is too keep the usage dawn while it is in beta, then the price will drop ounce it leave beta.
Classic intro
Classic wololo
What if we own the game on ps3 but would like to play it on our vita ???
Just wanted to confirm this can be used on 3.18… the prices are extreme but i wanted to try it out so i got Saints Row IV for a week…
Thnx I was wondering if it would work
np
Dosnt work on my vita I’m on 3.18 and it says its undergoing mantance