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Old 05 April 2016, 11:06 PM
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http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/...-out-tomorrow/
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Lets just hope its not hype.

Still mightily narked as Sony for the abysmal failure of games sharing!

On a wired fibre connection, 35mb and is says too slow to allow shareplay

utter bull.

Playing on a 5" phone screen though while fun was a tad imrpactible

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Its a good idea but can already remote play a ps4 to a tv anywhere with net access but resolution is not very good, same thing with mac and pc still need to own a ps4 so pointless as better on the 55" tv direct with hdmi
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How does this change gaming exactly? Or am I missing the point?
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
How does this change gaming exactly? Or am I missing the point?
it doesnt, its just a way for crapple to partly catch up
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it does play catch up quite well tbh
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It's got nothing to do with Apple apart from running on a Mac.

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I do love my mac but its never going to be a gaming laptop, dont even see why folk would use any laptop for games even though im very sure it has the power to do so.
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
How does this change gaming exactly? Or am I missing the point?
I'm no gamer but I do know games are limited on Mac's and not Playstations.
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Originally Posted by **jay**
I do love my mac but its never going to be a gaming laptop, dont even see why folk would use any laptop for games even though im very sure it has the power to do so.
27" 5k iMac though.
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Originally Posted by **jay**
I do love my mac but its never going to be a gaming laptop, dont even see why folk would use any laptop for games even though im very sure it has the power to do so.
depends on the architecture and spec.
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Originally Posted by Tidgy
depends on the architecture and spec.
Latest 15" with every added extra would never use a laptop for games just dont see the point, i use it for music production it does what it needs to do lol
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Originally Posted by **jay**
Latest 15" with every added extra would never use a laptop for games just dont see the point, i use it for music production it does what it needs to do lol
can still output to a monitor if you want to, but i build my own rig so dont have to worry about it
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I shall test it now and feed back 27incher 5k
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only 720p output tho?
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
only 720p output tho?
That's a bit poor. Same for PC?
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Just tried it apart from crap res on the retina 5k it's fine no lag have to have controller perm usb connected but it's fine....

Wonder if you can connect from away from home that would be cool in a hotel
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Like Jay, I only use mine for Music. But in all fairness, I've got a mahoosive gaming PC that is only used for games. (no surfing or other sh1te that wrecks PCs) It's a glorified hi-res Xbox 1

ie, 2 machines for specific jobs. both do those jobs very well.
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Originally Posted by JackClark
That's a bit poor. Same for PC?
Yip thats what i said in my first post so even on a 5k monitor your still only getting 720p, its pathetic and stuttery and you have to have your ps4 switched on and play the game thats currntly in it all its doing is sending from the ps4 so its a gimik at best.
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Steam do a similar thing, but at least it's pretty decent.

for 720p, most basic PC's (with an £80 gxf card) can game at this level anyway without the need to stream via the PS4
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