THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on May 23, 2014, 02:12:15 PM

Title: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 23, 2014, 02:12:15 PM: Got an invite for the PS4 Beta. I don't know how much I can talk about it, but so far it's kind of impressive. Easy to use with a simple UI. I'm not noticing any real controller lag, and the video seems decent. It'll probably collapse like a house of matchsticks on the day/week it's officially released, though.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: bork on May 23, 2014, 03:22:08 PM: They are never going to send me a beta invite :gloomy
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: a slime appears on May 23, 2014, 05:40:55 PM: I want an invite too.

:fbm
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: FatalT on May 23, 2014, 06:35:34 PM: I'm in it on both PS4 and PS3. It's neat.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 23, 2014, 06:49:33 PM: Somebody's got the jels :umad

Anyhow, aside from touchpad controls (shudder), this should be really cool on the Vita, where any video compression issues won't be so noticeable
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: a slime appears on May 23, 2014, 07:01:15 PM: How much can you guys talk about?

Is everything free for testing right now? Good selection of stuff?
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 23, 2014, 08:21:13 PM: There's about 20 games of various genres, nothing of the blockbuster sort.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: chronovore on May 27, 2014, 06:10:13 PM: Quote from: Ruzbeh on May 23, 2014, 06:46:42 PM
Why the fuck are these beta invites even a thing

Just do internal testing like normal people and release it once it works well

Fuck google for starting this trend

Test with 10, 50, or 100 people internally -- or test with 500, 1000, or 10,000 people across actual network conditions on heterogenous hardware? Seems like a no-brainer.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: a slime appears on June 06, 2014, 10:13:50 PM: Got an invite! :hyper
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on June 08, 2014, 03:01:46 PM: Still waiting for an invite. :( Cloud gaming is becoming pretty legit however -- nvidia's GRID in particular was a pleasant surprise. Can't believe I can stream Saints Row 3 and SFxT and play either title on a semi-competitive level without any hitches. Curious to see latency and picture quality on Sony's solution.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: headwalk on June 08, 2014, 03:28:34 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on May 23, 2014, 02:12:15 PM
I'm not noticing any real controller lag, and the video seems decent.

i guess getting old has its benefits.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Rufus on June 08, 2014, 03:31:04 PM: Jaggies? Just take the reading glasses off.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: chronovore on June 09, 2014, 02:15:53 AM: I always misread this thread as "PlayStation now in Beta!"
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Takao on June 29, 2014, 05:25:00 PM: I think it's kind of gross that beta users now have to pay to rent stuff.

Back in the old days, beta testers used to be paid.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: Lucretius on June 29, 2014, 07:44:42 PM: Quote from: Takao on June 29, 2014, 05:25:00 PM
I think it's kind of gross that beta users now have to pay to rent stuff.

Back in the old days, beta testers used to be paid.

For realzies! I remember when I got into the Final Fantasy XI Online beta for PS2, SquareEnix shipped me a FREE early retail copy of the game AND a hard drive AND a PS2 network adapter, all of which I got to keep forever.
Title: Re: PlayStation™ Now Beta
Post by: a slime appears on July 10, 2014, 11:24:09 PM: What the hell. I've been doing the whole MMO beta test thing since Ultima Online / Meridian 59 / Asheron's Call and never got shit.