I guess I'm a bit behind the times, but I liked it when it was straight up "You have Playstation Plus? Get a free game each month, it's yours, to have." Rather than "yours to have as long as you still have Playstation Plus", to "Yours to have/rent for one months time, only if you have Playstation Plus, and no matter…

Opportunities to get more of it plenty aside, I really am not digging this oxygen system. I hate games that do time limit stuff like that. It frustrated me in Lost Planet as well. Just about the only game where I dug that system was Time Crisis :P .

Ah, so even though they are testing the service, and the rental portion is only a place holder for what it will eventually become, we have no idea if that will just be a legacy game store, or an actual old disc registration backwards compatibility service?

Ahhh, "if you have already purchased the game you can stream it as much as you want." Given you are using the service, how does it work then if you do in fact own a previous gen PS3 game? Is there some sort of unique serial code that binds it to your account?

Wait, "rent"? So this really is not about backward compatibility at all? Or at least not the kind that makes use of already owned games it sounds like?

Ahhh, so all this beta business is just to test this for PS3 games though? Not the entire library (as I had originally suspected, after all, it doesn't seem like registering discs and downloading them would be any more complicated to do for PS1 and 2 like it would be for PS3 I imagine..).

Wow, well that news is very relevant to me! I thought news/stuff on that had completely stalled or it was just a pipe dream. Good to hear it's already in beta (assuming we are talking about the same thing).

I concur. Is it really a hardware limit we're getting already just because stuff like music streaming has trouble running side by side? If the patches aren't fixing it, I say they aren't patching it good enough?

Even the system's backwards-compatibility solution—the streaming PS Now service—is only in beta and not available to regular system users. So much of the PS4's worth can still only be expressed in the future tense.

The big hold-up is still the games.

Powerful as the PS4 is, its operating system already chugs a bit when I'm switching quickly between games and apps. It seems to be particularly burdened by the Music Unlimited app, which is supposed to enable music-streaming while you're playing games.

Blizzard has not changed? Now who's head is in the sand? They are shedding WoW fans pretty heavily with people either getting tired of the game or unhappy with Blizzards simplifications and changes, and that's where most of their eggs have been basket wise for years now (especially with stalled Starcraft Ghost…

Hyperbole will get you no where here buddy. There's a massive difference between "not immediately fixed" and "took over a year with a very vocal group of fans and beta testers screaming about and being dismissed." The auction house is an extremely noteworthy example (seriously, without that permeating the game for as…

It took them several beta's, a year and change of real time gaming, and an expansion to get the poop to shoe level, so to speak. Problems people were pointing out while the game was still in Alpha only recently have gotten address, oh and also the shame that is/was the auction house that effectively ganked the games…

"I need to get online, I NEED....A COMPUTEEEEER"

Just as your argument appears to be "What's a Voodoo 5? I haven't heard of (or wasn't around for) THAT debacle."

I don't have the right stuff.

The average PC gamer won't be able to afford to put together a 4K Ultra HD capable system for at least another couple of years. For the non-average PC gamer looking to spend upwards of $10,000 on a complete Ultra HD system, there's the Maingear Rush Vesuvius Edition — a showcase for AMD's water-cooled Radeon R9 295X2.

It does feel like this policy of requiring a gold account to access your paying Netflix account (especially when Playstation didn't) wen't on for wayyyy too long. I remember asking for all these years since the 360 came out why that was and no one seemed to mind, I guess I was the only one that felt like my gold…

"I'm worried if Microsoft will offer games and services geared for a Japanese audience." (Male, age 24)