{"id":1943,"date":"2021-12-11T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:53:26","slug":"who-needs-a-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Who needs a PS5?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First a couple of pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"2783\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2543.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"2784\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2544.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s me playing AAA games, in rock solid 4K, HDR, 60 fps glory on my living room TV. And that&#8217;s all with <em><strong>no console or PC attached<\/strong><\/em>. Hm&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secret is a combination of several pieces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/shield\/shield-tv-pro\/\">Nvidia Shield TV Pro<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teksavvy.com\">gigabit internet connection<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce-now\/\">GeForce NOW RTX 3080 <\/a>subscription<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, these allow me to stream games running on Nvidia servers directly to my TV, with max&#8217;ed out graphics and latency low enough to effortlessly pull off Tomb Raider style platforming. Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The available games come from my Steam, Epic Games, and Ubisoft libraries, so I&#8217;m not paying for games, even if the cost of the Shield Pro + RTX 3080 subscription was non-trivial. (Note that it&#8217;s still less than a PS5 over two years of service, and who knows, by 2023 I might actually be able to buy a PS5 in Ottawa. \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some caveats&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My internet service is shared cable running on Rogers infrastructure, so if too many of my neighbours are watching Netflix, I imagine my experience will degrade. I haven&#8217;t seen this yet. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is a long standing and irritating bug in the GeForce NOW service that causes you to need to log in to Steam every time you start a new game. My understanding is this is something to do with where the servers are running, versus some geofencing that Steam does. Regardless, until they find a workaround, I recommend adding on a wireless keyboard to your setup, since typing a 20 character, upper\/lower\/numeric\/specials password with a game controller sucks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of add on hardware, you will also need to get a game controller, since none is provided with the Shield TV Pro. I&#8217;m using an Xbox One wireless controller I already had over Bluetooth and it&#8217;s working just fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m extremely pleased with this setup. I&#8217;ve been missing the ability to play games in my living room since my son got my PS4. This is a great replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a couple of pictures&#8230; Yep, that&#8217;s me playing AAA games, in rock solid 4K, HDR, 60 fps glory on my living room TV. And that&#8217;s all with no console or PC attached. Hm&#8230; The secret is a combination of several pieces: Together, these allow me to stream games running on Nvidia servers directly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}