PS4 Remote Play For PC, Mac Arrives Tomorrow

[mman74]

Not all gamers are sad loners. We have families, and the PS4 is usually connected to the biggest TV, which will be the main TV in the house. The ability to stream to a PC is a huge bonus for people who cannot monopolize the big TV all the time and don't want to keep unplugging it every time they want to play.

 

[cats_Paw]

Is this article summarized in "PC Master Race" or am I missing something?

 

[targetdrone]

Ok, the "PS4 is located in the Living room but the TV is being used by someone else" reason makes a little bit of sense. The "Console exclusive" or "Awful PC port" doesn't because if you have the console, game on the console.

I'm from world where simplicity is God, keeping things simple is mandatory and Middle-ware needs to FOAD 😉

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

yes i know the PS4 controller has to be plugged in for remote play i was just pointing out that the controller is only able to be used for PS4 remote play and cannot be used as controller to used for PC games

Like I said: You can play Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 on PC with a PS4 controller out of the box.

The PS4 controller already works on PC, it's just that it uses an old API that many game devs have abandoned over the years in favor of the significantly more popular Xbox 360 controller. Now that the PS4 controller is compatible to PC, more devs are starting to support it.

Sony has nothing to do on their end. It's all a matter of whether the game supports it or not.


If you want to play old games, you'll probably need a wrapper like DS4Tools or DS4Windows.
If you want to play newer games (PS4 era or newer), it probably works already.
If you want to play very old games (before Xbox 360 era), it probably works as well (assuming it supports controllers in the first place).

 

[iamapizza]

> At launch, you’ll have a maximum resolution of 720p, but the stream will default to a resolution of 540p.

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