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Sony's PlayStation Remote Play Feature Expanding to Mac and PC Tomorrow
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Iv not tried it away from home yet but it gave the impression it was looking for the Ps4 on the same network
I would do this just for Madden. How is the responsiveness/lag? I'm familiar with a little lag playing online in the past, but curious how yours feels.
I genuinely felt fine. I never play Madden online as I am terrible at it but I didn't feel anything untoward with it.
I think I misunderstood your questions I thought you were offering advice for remote play away from home.
I had no issues setting this up. I set it up manually for quickness. Had the Mac by my PlayStation and selected add a device on PlayStation then put a code in.
Exactly.. I guess some people just guess at dates instead of actually looking up the facts.
I have resorted to parallels with a Windows 10 install. It works ok, but I would prefer not to have all that overhead required just to remote play.
I have a 2011 iMac, and had issues with boot camp installs updating and breaking the video driver, which makes it try to put me in a safe mode that doesn't work. Parallels works, but a native app would be better for me. I wonder if a cheap PC stick paired with a tv might be a better way to go. (Although a new Xbox for the other room is $300, it would be hard to justify to my wife....)
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Very cool, I was hoping someone would post a video.
We've got an older PS3 (G/H/J series, originally 40GB, currently with a 250GB HDD). It's done great duty as a console, some time mostly as a BD player, now the occasional game and Vudu access - but I wouldn't mind an upgrade, and with this remote play flexibility, it makes it even more enticing.
The setup was very simple to follow, however i also have the greyed-out preferences so I cannot up the resolution or framerate. Anyone who knows a work-around or why it is acting this way?
EDIT: In order to change the resolution or use preferences, you got to open up preferences before connecting to the PS4.
EDIT: In order to change the resolution or use preferences, you got to open up preferences before connecting to the PS4.
OK now that i've tested it on 720p60fps, i'm sorry to say i'm experiencing a tiny little bit of input lag, the resolution and framerate have no problem at all though. Maybe could be due to a "slower" - 50mbit down/10mbit up - connection which theoretically doesn't meet sonys 12/12 requirement but still. Too bad! This makes playing a lot of shooters (especially online gaming) near impossible.
You know, the architecture seems a little odd - I could see if there was a remote service for coordinating multiplayer (where the PC could stand in for another console with concurrent PS4 use), or if the local hardware didn't have enough rendering power - but it seems inefficient to route the game stream out of the local network, through Sony's infrastructure and _back_ to your LAN.
Maybe this is a test for a service only PlayStation service. Pay $xx/month and access as many games as you like in a remote library without dedicated Sony hardware.
Hahaha, I should get my BIL to leave his on and get his account info
Works very well so far.
My only complain is needing to have the controller plugged in
You just need to make sure the ports required for it are open on your router.
My only complain is needing to have the controller plugged in
You just need to make sure the ports required for it are open on your router.
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/psvita/ps4link/viainternet.html
This is tempting, I might have to break my rule of only playing games on consoles and only using my computer for serious work.
The rule was born back a long time ago when my game "breaks" from studying or doing otherwise productive things on my computer lasted several hours. It's been more then a decade so maybe I should break the rule. Surely I am more responsible now, right?
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The rule was born back a long time ago when my game "breaks" from studying or doing otherwise productive things on my computer lasted several hours. It's been more then a decade so maybe I should break the rule. Surely I am more responsible now, right?
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I know. Uncharted 4 keeps getting delayed.Finally a reason to get the PS4. Oh wait, still waiting for the game I wanted to play...
Nah, those are not the type of game that I play.This is tempting, I might have to break my rule of only playing games on consoles and only using my computer for serious work.
The rule was born back a long time ago when my game "breaks" from studying or doing otherwise productive things on my computer lasted several hours. It's been more then a decade so maybe I should break the rule. Surely I am more responsible now, right?
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I know. Uncharted 4 keeps getting delayed.
I am not commenting on Sony - I don't play console games anyway. I just like it when other company highlight the fact that Microsoft gaming is always kept in their family (i.e. DirectX).