pezus said:
richardhutnik said:
Chark said:
For PS Plus free game offerings, the way I see it is that its a used/rental game alternative.
PS Plus is $50 a year for 36 games($4.17 a month for 3 games). Your subscription fee funds the industry very directly through digital distribution. The PS3 games are at least 1 year old or something and you don't select which titles come out, though I'm sure you can try suggesting them on PS Blog. The games stay with you as long as you have a subscription and you can renew your subscription down the road and regain access. 36 new titles every year adds up.
To compare, Gamefly offers 1 game rental at a time for $16 a month or 2 for $23. Your subscription doesn't provide any direct funds to the industry, just to Gamefly. You can select what games you want but there is limited availability, so your top priority titles might take some time to receive. Rent to your hearts content but a full year bags you at $192 to $276. You can only keep one or two titles at a time.
To compare, used game purchases don't provide any direct funds for the industry, just the retailers. You are still paying a decent sum per game depending on sales and how new they are. Say $20 a game for 36, that's $720. Though you have total control over which titles are bought but only if available. You get to keep your games because you own them, you can even sell them, although at a very reduced rate. |
Difference between Gamefly and PS Plus question: Does PS Plus provide the absolutely latest releases or stuff that has been otu awhile? I guess, if you don't care about new releases, Gamefly and PS Plus wouldn't be different. But, that to me, seesm to be a difference. Also can factor in whether or not you are playing off disks or not. With digital download, you have to download the entire game, eating up harddrive space.
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Sony will be promoting at least one brand spanking new PSN game (free) per month. Some of the free games are high-profile, relatively new games, others are slightly older. They will try to pick good games. Just having new games because they are new is not good enough. There are not enough good/great new games being released at the moment, better to offer some many might have missed (LBP2, inFamous 2, Just Cause 2, R&C, Darksiders etc.)
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PSN content, which is not the same as the AAA stuff that hits the shelves. Gamefly has issues, but they will end up getting the newest disk stuff. That is a difference between the two. Part of Sony upping the content in PS+ would be likely to undermine the used game market of Gamestop. If you don't mind waiting for the stuff to show up, and have the harddrives space for it, and don't mind waiting to download, the older stuff would be a good deal.
I am pretty sure that Sony, and game publishers would love to steal the business of the likes of Gamefly. After stomping out piracy, used game market, and game rental where they get nothing of the ongoing revenue stream from the rental is next. This will likely be a push to get everyone into a subscription model for content. Sony, with Home and Free Realms (pretty cool MMO type game by the way, more interesting that Home in my opinion), has been experimenting with micropayment also. I had laid out the direction of this in my other thread on here about companies will push for people to keep paying to play, rather than pay once to own: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=144532&page=1#
