
#PS4 SHAREPLAY FULL#
Sony would be better off letting PS4 users download the full game once granted access, much like Valve's game sharing implementation on Steam. KitGuru Says: Sony seems intent on pushing streaming technology this generation, which is a shame as it just isn't up to scratch yet. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, Novemin Europe, South America and Australia, and on Februin Japan. Then, their console will be running the game rather than yours, so it's unlikely that they will be able to use it while you play- sort of like Valve's in-home streaming implementation, not to be confused with Valve's actual game sharing feature, which allows Steam users to download full games to their own PC's in order to play a friend's game offline, on their own hardware. The PlayStation 4 ( PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. I ask them to let me play it, and if they send me an invitation, I can access their PS4 and play while watching the video that is streamed.”įrom the sounds of it, the PS4 user you want to stream from will have to be at their console in order to grant you access. and they could use Share Play to share game screens with other players in a. “ How it works is, for example, say, a friend has a game that I don't. The PS4 was developed and released by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). Playstation boss, Shuhei Yoshida, revealed how SharePlay would work in an interview with Famitsu, which was then translated by Kotaku: However, so far there doesn't appear to be a cooldown period or a limit on the amount of times you can play, so theoretically, your session could end and you could just request access again to pick up where you left off.

Sony's game sharing implementation will allow PS4 owners to request access to a friends game, they will then be allowed to stream that game for an hour, after that, the session will end. However, details on how game sharing will work are starting to emerge, revealing a 60 minute time limit on play sessions.

At Gamescom this week, Sony announced that one of the PS4's biggest advertised features, ‘SharePlay' will finally be coming to the console this year.
