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Should PS2 Backwards Compatibility be Handled by PlayStation Now?

Gamemoir's Nick D. examines Sony’s recent announcement of PS2 emulation on PS4 and whether Sony’s PlayStation Now service may be the best place for it.

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madmonkey013074d ago (Edited 3074d ago )

Playstation Now might have ps2 or even ps4 games in future, people seem un aware of the fact that PSNow isnt just for ps4.

Spotie3073d ago

Well, if they acknowledge that PSNow is on the PS3- among other things- they can't say it's Sony's greedy, crappy attempt at matching Microsoft's BC.

That aside, I see that as being fundamentally different from this emulation, though. This doesn't at all sound like implementation or inclusion of PS2 games into the Now service, though they DID say that was coming.

After all, that would just be streaming the game from remote servers- as is done with PS3 games- NOT emulation of the software, as has been stated.

TWB3072d ago (Edited 3072d ago )

Though you have to keep in mind that what is being streamed through PSNOW, has to run on a hardware of some sort. As far as I know, PSNow runs games off a PS3 like server machine (with 10 PS3 machines in one server), but to run PS2 games they would need to either emulated the PS2 games (which is doable since PS3 does have a full PS2 software emulator although with poor compatibility) or run them on the native hardware.

Sony hasnt manufactured new PS2 HW in a long while and the original hardware is probably not adaptible to such streaming environment.

That would mean they have to emulated the PS2 games if they ever were to introduce them to the service. That could be a problem though since emulation naturally causes extra input lag and when you combine that with PSNow and the streaming latency, it could be kind of a bad experience.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2624d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905069d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5069d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905069d ago (Edited 5069d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5069d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5069d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5069d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495069d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5069d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5069d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2660d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One