PS4 Share Play restricted to 60-minute sessions

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Share Play enables a PlayStation Plus subscriber to share a game with a friend, allowing that friend to take control of the game remotely and play - without having to own the title themselves.

But the feature will not be limitless. Sony has confirmed to Gamespot that sessions will be restricted to 60-minute sessions. There are no limit to how many Share Play sessions you host, Sony told the site. But it's unclear if this means that players will simply be able to host multiple Share Play sessions in a row.

In a chat with GameBlog, PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan was reluctant to divulge the full details. "In principle it is 60 minutes, that's all I can say for now," he said.

Ryan also clarified that players who take control of a game remotely will be able to play both the single and multi player modes in that game - even without PS Plus membership - but they will not be able to play multiplayer with the person they are sharing from without a PS Plus membership.

Speaking to Famitsu, translated via Kotaku, SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida revealed how a Share Play session will be started.

"How it works is, for example, say, a friend has a game that I don't. 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," he said.

"You could call it a mini PlayStation Now," he added, comparing it to the cloud gaming service, with the host's PS4 acting as the cloud.

When sharing a game with a friend, since your PS4 is essentially being played by that person remotely, you will not be able to play the PS4 yourself without disrupting the Share Play session, Sony has clarified.

In addition, since the person the game is being shared to is basically playing their friend's PS4, they themselves cannot save their progress to their own account.

"In Share Play, the visitor (the one who doesn't own the game) takes over the host (the one who owns the game)'s account, so the visitor cannot save their play data onto their own account," a Sony rep told Kotaku.

Sony confirmed confirmed during its Gamescom press conference on Tuesday that the long-awaited Share Play feature will be introduced to PS4 as part of the upcoming firmware update 2.0, due for release by Autumn.

The anticipated feature was first announced during the PS4 unveiling in February 2013, but missed the PS4 launch and was yet to surface on the console.

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BrigandPosted:

Those 60 minutes could help a player decide i the game is worth it or not. 60 minutes to try a game seems worth it.

DusknoirPosted:

I'll take 60 minute gamesharing over nothing.

TravitorPosted:

Polygon
Pryzel Looks like a good idea but could be longer than 1 hour...


it's only to TRY a game.
People would abuse it otherwise.


even in 1hour people will abuse the use.

PolygonPosted:

Pryzel Looks like a good idea but could be longer than 1 hour...


it's only to TRY a game.
People would abuse it otherwise.

GILFPosted:

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Mr_Krabs This is pretty neat. Now if xbox somehow recreats this or makes a even better thing like this, it would totally be something that would be really cool.


Ok.... so its neat what playstaton have done but if xbox did the same thing it would be "really cool" You sir are an xbox fanboy


whether he is a fanboy or not xbox should still think about this feature

ZipsPosted:

60 Minute sessions? Should be more than that to be honest, when you're playing an hour on a console it doesnt feel like long.

TravitorPosted:

To be honest, this looks pretty good. not for me though

SCOPosted:

Mr_Krabs This is pretty neat. Now if xbox somehow recreats this or makes a even better thing like this, it would totally be something that would be really cool.


Ok.... so its neat what playstaton have done but if xbox did the same thing it would be "really cool" You sir are an xbox fanboy

tellPosted:

This is pretty neat. Now if xbox somehow recreats this or makes a even better thing like this, it would totally be something that would be really cool.

SCOPosted:

People who complain, "omg its only 1 hour that sucks" etc. don't understand that this feature is for people who don't have the game to TEST the game to see if its worth buying. If they like the game and want to play it then they will buy it. 60 minutes is more than enough. Its a great thing to be added as it "should" increase sales as more people will be able to try it out and see if they like the game or not. This feature is nothing to do with getting it for free. its for TESTING