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Forums - Sony Discussion - PlayStation Now support being pulled from PS3; Vita; Bravia/Samsung TVs; Blu-Ray players

irstupid on 15 February 2017

Probably thought it was no longer a good value to its customers like EA Access.



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GribbleGrunger on 15 February 2017

Dropping PS3 soon.



 

The PS5 Exists. 


RJ_Sizzle on 15 February 2017
Azuren said:
Maybe now Sony can start focusing energy into real backwards compatibility.

That's pretty much the only thing that would make up for this.



kappie1977 on 15 February 2017

Here in Europe in most countries the service is already only on PC and PS4. With this high price I think most people weren't interested already. This is just a bad sign for the service, but hopefully they find out that people don't want to pay so much for the service. If it was below EUR. 10,- they got me sold, I tried the beta here and it worked perfectly with my fiber internet line.



walsufnir on 15 February 2017

The beginning of the end.



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pokoko on 15 February 2017

I would imagine that what they've learned is that most people who are interested in a service like PS Now already have a next gen gaming device or they play on PC. TV owners who do not have a next gen gaming console likely don't care all that much about console type games to begin with.

Not that surprising, really.



KLXVER on 15 February 2017

Still have never heard of anyone using this service except for some people that tried the beta.



irstupid on 15 February 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:
I'm a little surprised about this. I saw streaming as a big part of Playstation's future.

Isn't it like $20 a month or something insanely high though?

But i'm guessing due to high price that membership is low, then also the reason for dropping support on all these devices is its not very easy to make sure that the games all work for every device. Much easier to code the system for PC's and the PS4, versus whatever hardware may be in a blu-rya payer or a tv.



SweetTalia on 15 February 2017

lol...sigh



Praise the One.

irstupid on 15 February 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:
RolStoppable said:

How big is the selection of PS4 games on PS Now? They've added something, right?

Streaming won't be the future if there are only old games.

I saw a future scenario where all of the games would be available on Demand on Now in some form and they would push to have Now loaded on all TVs.  A console-free future.

irstupid said:

Isn't it like $20 a month or something insanely high though?

But i'm guessing due to high price that membership is low, then also the reason for dropping support on all these devices is its not very easy to make sure that the games all work for every device. Much easier to code the system for PC's and the PS4, versus whatever hardware may be in a blu-rya payer or a tv.

It's $20/month or $45/three months.  That's too much for somebody who doesn't game a lot, but if you're the kind of person who goes through a lot of games, it makes sense.

Maybe if the games were newer. I mean I have no problem paying $15 a month for an MMO, yet would not pay $20 a month for the entire backlog of ps games. I just don't have the desire to play older games. If there is some older game I want to play, I already own it, so I pop it in. Or I jump on steam and purchase it for like $2

$180-240 a year is a lot to ask for with old games that you will probably hardly touch.