Sony has just announced that Playstation Now will officially come to the PC. This service will go live soon in parts of Europe and shortly thereafter in North America. In addition, Sony revealed the DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adaptor.
As Sony noted, Playstation Now will bring a wide selection of PlayStation exclusive titles to Windows PC for the very first time, including entries in the Uncharted, God of War, and Ratchet & Clank franchises, as well as beloved PS3 games like The Last of Us and Journey.
In case you are wondering, no; this service will not make the PS3 games run better. Playstation Now will simply give you the ability to play your PS3 games on your PC via streaming methods. And that is all.
On the other hand, the DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adaptor will launch in early September for a suggested retail price of $24.99, and will let you connect a DualShock 4 to PC and Mac wirelessly. This adaptor will enable every feature of the controller you know and love: buttons, analog sticks, touch pad, light bar, motion sensors, vibration, and stereo headset jack – as long as the gaming application supports these features.
Here are the recommended specs for running Playstation Now on the PC:
- Windows 7 (SP1), 8.1 or 10
- 3.5 GHz Intel Core i3 or 3.8 GHz AMD A10 or faster
- 300 MB or more; 2 GB or more of RAM
- Sound card; USB port
Last but not least, Sony claimed that a minimum 5Mbps connection is required to use PS Now on any device, and recommends a wired Internet connection for the optimal experience.
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Who in the hell wants this?. I mean for the price of one month’s subscription you could pick up a PS3 and several of the games second hand?. I am a massive PC gamer but even I own consoles, they aren’t exactly expensive. Its the online fees that make them a rip off but then I don’t pay them
a PS3 + a few games can be found for $20?
$20 a month, that’s 240 a year. By comparison, just selectively buying the available games that you’re actually interested in might actually be overall cheaper.
Okay wait… he say’s “I mean for the price of one month’s subscription”. He did NOT say for the price of a YEARS worth of One month subscriptions. So Min64 is right to question his logic. The way you wrote it makes more sense but that IS NOT what ATARI wrote. Could it be what he meant? Perhaps, but he wrote in plain English a ridiculous statement.
Well in total, he’s not far off, 1 months subscription, the ds4 adaptor and the ds4 controller itself, that’s about £90
Same
Lol what? Are there really so many people eager to play old PS3 games to pay $ 20 a month for this service? (I actually had to look up what PS now is, not a follower of peasants’ news and selling platforms).
And USB adaptor for measly $ 25?
What a bargain…. NOT!
Next!
you can use the usb charge cable that came with your PS4 controller or bluetooth.
true, i use a bluetooth wireless adapter and ds4windows if i want to play an emulator or a game that plays well on a controller, thing was 9$, sony is doing sony things and overcharging as usual. 20$ for old games that you dont even own?! thats a big no right there
It’s the same price as xbone adapter for PC so :/
Yeah, when Sony imitates something Microsoft’s already done, they usually take on their ridiculously extravagant price tags as well.
Ridiculous, but, hey, they are in it for the money, after all.
More like PS Never to me, streaming games is a big no in my book. :s
Can’t watch 360p youtube videos without buffering, let alone playing 720p games. ;p
I have to laugh instead of crying, because that’s the truth right now lol.
For that kind a price lol I rather spend on drinks
console kids with there “exclusives” must be mad as heck right now.
SONY in the nutshell people!!! They dont care about customers they care only for money
Well if you never played Demon’s Souls, Killzone 2, Infamous and The Last of Us they are all worth playing, even if its through PSnow.
Demon’s Souls is the best Souls imo
Console kiddies so mad right now, their precious exclusives are slipping right through their fingers……..
😮
It’s a nightmare…
Btw, where is hvd and his friends? LOL
Busy lavishly & liberally applying Prep H to their special parts over this latest round of butthurtness they just endured……
;D
Hilarious!
HAHAHAHA!
im not a ponie i am loling with you.
HVD is a PC gamer. He’s just a troll. He admitted it to me months ago. I just put him on my long list of blocked trolls so I don’t have to read his nonsense anymore.
A Playstation post on DSO, That’s weird and funny lol, anyways, it’s good news, this is a valuable thing for PC, better having it even if it’s optionnal, than nothing
Right Sony, who tha f*ck want to play this old garbage annyway. It’s not like the PS3 have been hacked long ago with custom firmwares. I actually sold my PS3 with the Cobra chip last year to a mate!
Report when there is a CFW for PS4 insteed 😉
Not that it’s to much to wait for, I mean 30fps and ugly graphics huh.
I recently played Uncharted 4 as they are pretty good exclusive Sony games (one of the few)
And WTF how come every damn site praice the graphics so much – aaah the best we have eever seen bla bla bla. That’s totaly BS, that game looks okey but even a blind f*ck should see that it cant hold a candle to say Metro 33 or take pretty much any good Pc game maxed out. They are funny those f*ckn console peasant eeh :/
The PS4 was so underpowered even upon release, and the new PS4 Neo wont change that fact – 4.2Tflops LOL. My Skylake 6600k/GTX 970 pisses all over it.
No thanks, Sony………..-_-‘
Do you remember this? Look at the cancer itself… brace yourself
What is this garbage ??
The original prototype for the PS3 controller. Beautiful, isn’t it? :))
Jezus christ
Well, Sony is Japanese after all.
Still better than Dualshock 3
it hurts every muscle of you body when you hold one
bangarang!
I’ll just keep waiting for the RPCS3 emulator. Is far more better.
Thank U but Nope
Gaikai > Sony $380 million acquisition > Sony Playstation Now rebrand = Overprice abject failure to their customers
Plan ‘B’ PC > Same result
just right when ps3 emulators getting some results
This is just Sony reviving the corpse of OnLive (they bought that POS last year). It will fail miserably, again.
Hopefully they see what games people are most interested in and make decent ports for purchase or better yet start making games for PC as well as ps4. Though if youre smart you probably wouldnt touch psnow on PC with a 30ft USB cable
Having to play at 720p30 defeats the purpose of PC gaming, especially when you add latency and video compression to the mix. That doesn’t even cover the ridiculous service prices. As for the adapter, just use a regular blue tooth dongle with Input Mapper, as it’s a fraction of the price.
Naahhh I wont use this I rather buy a game where I can play anytime and replay it anytime I want :O
I prefer to own my games. I hate this games as a service bullshit.
The thing.
The footage needs to be more pixelated to be representative of the actual gameplay. 😛
Keep this garbage on console where it belongs.
Interesting is the Wireless Adaptor for the Dualshock controllers.
Just use Bluetooth if your PC has a wireless/bt adapter
I’m currently using that and it works great, but the stereo connector still doesn’t work over that connection. lag is not great for 3 or more controllers as well.
So, with official support for all the controller’s features coming to PC, could we start seeing both Xbox and PlayStation control prompts/features becoming commonplace in the future? I hope so. Honestly, as someone who plays mostly on the PC THAT is the most interesting part of this news story.
i dont understand, i dont own a ps3, i dont have a sony or ps store account and my internet is only 10megabits, 1.2MB/s download speed.
how am i suposed to play Uncharted 4 or The Last of Us with this???
pay to play old ps and ps2 games..lol….pass