| vivster said: I really don't get your point. If FTP devs would put their games on PSNow for free, all their proceeds would go directly to Sony for server fees. Why would any company do this? People with just a Blu-ray player or a TV will not play these games. Why? Because if they had any interest in gaming they'd already have some kind of device that plays games. |
Then why are Sony putting PSNow on Bravia TVs?
Yep, it does seem to me that most people still think PSNow is just a workaround for backward compatibility. PSNow is designed to spread the PS brand beyond the normal restraints of 'gaming' hardware.
FTP games exist ... no? Then clearly the model works from a financial standpoint and at the end of the day, that's all that matters to people who could potentially support the service. As another poster pointed out, perhaps there IS a problem because of all these FTP games being online only, and perhaps the extra lag these could potentially introduce would make it almost impossible to make them work on PSNow properly, but if they can get them working well the model would work in exactly the same way it works now.
We are going to be getting RPG so clearly there is a way for PSNow to store your progress and everything else required to make your own playthrough unique from others, so it follows they will also be able to store/monitor what content you have bought for a FTP game.
And what better way to get people interested in PSNow than to offer them a way of testing it without paying any money up front?
The PS5 Exists.
