With the private beta invites sent out just five months ago to PlayStation 3 console owners, Sony’s ‘PlayStation Now’ (PS Now) will soon have a public beta opened for PlayStation 4 (PS4) gamers in the mainland United States and parts of Canada on July 31st, 2014. The service will then extend to PlayStation 3 (PS3) on September, followed by PlayStation Vita (PS Vita), and PlayStation TV (PS TV) by the end of 2014, in the same region.
PS Now is a service for gamers to stream high-end video games, over the internet, straight to your PS4, PS3, PS Vita, PS TV, and even PS Now-compatible 2014 Sony TVs, when the service does roll out to all eventually.
At launch of this open beta, there will be around 100 titles or more, encompassing many genres from SCE Worldwide Studios, and other leading developers and publishers. For now, Sony is going for a rental system, where shorter rental periods are priced from US$2.99, and for the most part, the games will range from US$2.99 to US$19.99. This may not sound too attractive, for the games are no longer yours after the rental period, but Sony said it plans to offer subscription options (hopefully like PlayStation Plus) in the future.
SCE will also launch this PS Now service in Europe, Japan, and other Asian countries eventually, but no specific date has been given yet. I’m guessing that even if we were to try to use a DNS server bypass to access PS Now on July 31st, the connection may not be optimized, and we will probably not get a great experience out of this. But hey, there’s always Steam In-Home Streaming.
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