Brad3000

Yeah, people talk shit about PSNow in comparison to Gamepass but most months Now is a much better deal. There are literally 6x more games available at the same price. There’s somewhere around 250-300 downloadable PS4 games and 400 or so PS3 games to stream. And they’ve all been streamable on a PC years before Xcloud.

Granted, there aren’t any day & date new releases but frankly I’ve been disappointed by almost all the first party exclusives I’ve received through GamePass. When it comes to breadth and depth PSNow beats GamePass hands down - it only lacks in freshness. Unfortunately, since I make enough money to play the stuff I want when it comes out, I don’t get a lot of use from Now. And I do keep GamePass because that newness does entice me enough to keep going every month. But for most consumers who don’t have libraries of PS4 games in the high hundreds, there’s a way better deal to be had with Now.

@reap3r160: You can download all the PS4 games but PS3 games are still streaming only.

I had to replace my LG B7p after 2 years because the PS4 menu was starting to burn in. I have my PS4 set to turn off automatically after 15 minutes, so even if I was being lazy and leaving it on too much it’s not like it was for hours at a time.

@humanity: GB used to Quick Look small games all the time 5+ years ago. Then they shuffled that stuff off to UPF. Now there’s no UPF, really.

For the last few months on a variety of iOS devices every premium stream has had buffering/repeating issues. I know I’m not the first to mention it. Thought it would have been taken care of by now.

Tested devices: iPhone X, iPad Pro 1st Gen, iPad Pro 3rd gen, AppleTV 4K.

Every 1-2 minutes the stream will skip backward and repeat several seconds. Makes premium streams almost unwatchable.

@whitegreyblack: Oh, for sure. I'm not saying that Hololens is going to be a big success and have lots of great applications, I'm just saying that people who have actually used it have said amazing things that seem to bear out the possibility that what was shown in the concept video is not as far from the truth.

Microsoft have said that this has a long way to go still and no one is even making any software for it yet. I see this more akin to the old table sized Microsoft Surface of yore, more a proof of concept that will bear out much more fruit in 5 or 10 years.

@flippyandnod: Aside from the word "exclusive" how is the Wired article full of bullshit? A lot of different press outlets got their hands on the same demos and said basically the exact same stuff.

Before people shit on Hololense, maybe they should read some of the impressions of people who have gone hands on with it. It sounds like they are actually delivering on what the video shows.

Unity is way better than people are giving it credit for. I'm not a huge AC fan - I've played about half of them but only came close to beating AC2 - and really only bought Unity because my wife and I honeymooned in Paris, so I thought it would be neat to go back there virtually. Turns out I'm really loving the game. Despite its technical problems it looks incredible, the world feels "alive" in a way I haven't seen before and the story is leagues better than Black Flag. I think people were just ready to hate AC again and the embargo/bug issues have put a worse spin on the game itself than it deserves.

Valiant Hearts. Probably my favorite game of the year and I've played a lot of stuff. I thought everything about it was fantastic, especially the art and music.