Pachter: Saying Sony Has "A Lot of First-Party Content Is a Stretch"

[vivster]

Zekkyou said:

vivster said:

Now that I've seen the whole Bonus round I realise that this quote was completely out of context. It was just one of the mentions why Pachter thinks PSNow is going to fail. His main point was that Sony will not be able to secure enough 3rd party titles so their own library wouldn't be big enough to sustain the service.

He also said that if the subscription price is too low they won't get any content and if it is too high they won't get enough subscribers. That is just simple math. He said the peak subscription number would be 1 million and that they won't keep them that high.

Also that one guy who said he liked it has obviously no idea how the internet works. Saying that PS1/2 games will have noticeable lower latency than PS3 games is just bullshit.

The service seems to be about giving players older stuff for now, so it shouldn't be that expensive to buy up a load of third party games that are 1/2+ years old. This gen people have been willing to spend full price on a HD re release of a PS2 trilogy. Ask them for the same amount every year for some older 3rd party games plus the PS3/PS2 and PS1 exclusive line ups and people should come running.

The service has to be stable though. If it's a lag fest PSNow will be dead within a few weeks.

But how many people really play older games and would like to pay premium for it? The service will be unplayable for people depending on their delay tolerance and where they live. Being stable doesn't change the technology behind it with its inherent lag.

In whole it just has so many possible drawbacks(content, price, lag), each of which alone could mean the death of the service.