For the past year, Nvidia’s GeForce Grid service has provided Shield owners with the ability to stream games from remote servers. The service has now gone live as GeForce Now, an $8 per month streaming service. Nvidia claims to offer a 1080p-quality service at 60 FPS at that $8 rate, with the first three months included free (the service launches on October 1 for North America, the EU, and ...
By all accounts, the PlayStation 4 has been a huge success. It’s selling extremely well, it regularly out performs the Xbox One, and it’s become the de facto standard for third-party releases (much like the PS2 or Xbox 360 in their heydays). Even so, it’s far from perfect. I’ve used the PS4 nearly every day since it launched in 2013, and familiarity has most definitely bred contempt. ...
Earlier today, we covered how the PlayStation TV can be hacked to play Vita titles. Today, Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, more-or-less confirmed that Sony was planning to exit the dedicated handheld business once the Vita reaches the end of its lifespan. When asked about the possibility of a follow-up to Sony’s PSV, Yoshida noted that mobile ...
When Sony launched its PlayStation TV in the US last year, the device debuted to mixed recommendations and a puzzling lack of compatibility. While it’s fundamentally based on the same hardware as the PlayStation Vita, the PSTV can’t play many games that the Vita runs quite handily. In some cases, this makes sense — the Vita has a microphone, camera, and gyroscope, all of which the PS ...
There were a number of important announcements at the Oculus Connect 2 conference this week. First, Samsung’s Gear VR is expected to be on store shelves by the end of November, with support for a wider number of Android handsets. The first version of the device was only compatible with the Galaxy Note 4, which naturally limited its appeal. This new flavor will go on sale for $99 (half ...
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