| Puppyroach said: There is no need to be upset just because we have different viewpoints in this matter. What is there to stop Sony from doing exactly what you described on PS Now? Imagine if the next game in Little Big Planet series as to release on PS3 and only o PS Now for sale? Offering a streaming service is the perfect way to have complete control over the consumer. What MS is aying is that more and more games will have usage of the cloud, therefore being constantly online will become a requirement. You are way to focused on physcal copies of games. DRM expands into the realm of digital only aswell you know. |
Not upset cause of different views, upset cause some poeple are either not reading answers to questions identical to what they are asking or are ignoring the answers flat out.
Nothing stops sony from doing it. Nothing at all. PSnow is a game rental service, and nothing really stops them from making PS4 games available on the service to rent. Though it won't be same day and date as the physical or digital release. Cause offer a $10 rental fee for one week for brand new game will cannibalize sales of the $60 asking price for ownership.
Having said that, PSnow is not a game store, its a game rental service. You do not own the content on the service and you need the service to play whatever content you are renting. That is miles different from needing a service to play content that you actually own. As someone has already said, PSnow exists as an online service. You need the internet to even be able to get into PSnow. And you can have PSnow on a multitude of devices. You do ot need an internet connection to go to a store and buy a game, and even if you bought that game digitally, it now belongs to you. So why should you need aninternet connection to be able to play it?
If MS wants an always connected whatever, then let them do what sony is doig and rent bloody games out and let those that want to rent the games and be tethered to a server do so. But changing how games are made just so to stealthly impose an always connected enviroment for everything be it physical or digital is IMO them just going about what they were originally trying to do albeit this time better thought out.
