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Forums - Gaming - Cable TV like plan for consoles (PS triad... PS+ PSNow and PSCable)

What if Sony revised their arrogance towards EA access being no value and put a third subscription based service?

Let's say... PS+ you play MP and get some games to keep for as long as you have the subs (can be played on PSP,PS3,PS4,PSVita)

PSNow, you can rent a game for the lenghts stablished or subs to stream several older games (any system).

PSCable

You decide what package you want. Which publishers you want to have access and what kind of game (brand new, backlog, indies, etc) but all from this generation. And you have a rotation defined by the publishers.

This would work offline, you download the game and play without the need for checks because the game would already go with a time counter to expire the content when the publisher had defined the rotation... yes people could tamper the clock, but as soons as they try to download the next game it would make them correct it (how many people would go the trouble of always changing the clock to keep playing the games of older rotations?).

Would you subscribe? How much would it be worth to you? What kind of plans and developers would you like to have on it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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My concern is that it would reduce competition and give the platform holder even more control over the content.   This would then give the platorm holders too much pricing power and stifle innovation.   I had hoped no one would consider the cable companies as a model to aspire to.



niallyb

I wished that Sony would have been taken out of de equation.. don't need that overhead..
Let Ubisoft, EA, Activision come up with their own subscriptions and let them try to make it worthwhile for me.. even better let a Company like Amazon come with a sub on my console



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

niallyb said:

My concern is that it would reduce competition and give the platform holder even more control over the content.   This would then give the platorm holders too much pricing power and stifle innovation.   I had hoped no one would consider the cable companies as a model to aspire to.

In the proposition I put each dev would decide the content and rotation... you would just choose which publisher you want to sub.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

NiKKoM said:
I wished that Sony would have been taken out of de equation.. don't need that overhead..
Let Ubisoft, EA, Activision come up with their own subscriptions and let them try to make it worthwhile for me.. even better let a Company like Amazon come with a sub on my console


Do you want the platform holder to be taken out of their platform?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Sounds crappy if you ask me. Why on earth would I want anything else to be like the god awful cable business model?

Just give me a platform specific service where I can play games from several publishers and developers from several console generations. Price it as a monthly subscription service where I pay based on how many games I want to use a month. Heck even give me an option for unlimited games a month.

how garbage would Netflix be if you needed different subscriptions if you wanted to watch movies from different studios?



Bet with Adamblaziken:

I bet that on launch the Nintendo Switch will have no built in in-game voice chat. He bets that it will. The winner gets six months of avatar control over the other user.

No no and no.



No. Services like Cable TV are dying for a reason.



It's already been done, and It didn't go too well.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

Normchacho said:
Sounds crappy if you ask me. Why on earth would I want anything else to be like the god awful cable business model?

Just give me a platform specific service where I can play games from several publishers and developers from several console generations. Price it as a monthly subscription service where I pay based on how many games I want to use a month. Heck even give me an option for unlimited games a month.

how garbage would Netflix be if you needed different subscriptions if you wanted to watch movies from different studios?


Not different subscription... you make one sub but the price is based on how many publishers you want on it (because it would be easier to make the devs accept the license model if it's determined how much they will receive based on the number of people that opt to include it on their subs), age of games and sure how many different games you can play in the month.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."