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Neodegenerate on 01 August 2014
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gergroy said:
Neodegenerate said:
gergroy said:

beta or not, it has been brought to the market.  

The target audience for PSNow is not the hardcore market.  They are simply using us to determine the pricing structure through their beta programs before they roll it out to the target: casual gamers and people who don't currently own consoles.  Those people aren't experiencing any of these woes as they don't actually go to gaming websites or care about what happened in beta.  They will care when they see the advertising and the actual pricing.  Any damage this is causing is going to be minimal at best in regards to their target audience.

yeah, because nobody but the hardcore people heard about the terrible x1 reveal because they don't visit gaming websites?  ...or not.  

The people that aren't hardcore gamers aren't generally buying a video game system in its first year.  Not enough time has passed to validate this.

They could have kept it as a closed beta if they weren't sure about pricing, but they decided to open it up to everybody.  That means that they don't plan to make too many changes to the the service, not matter what they say.  They could and probably will add a subscription model in the future because I don't think there will be much money coming in with this pricing structure.  

True they could've.  I am sure they have data that suggested they should do it openly.

Much like playstation home, they are just launching it to the public and using the term "beta" to hide behind its shortcomings.  It is the exact same tactic.  My point is they should have just waited until they had the right approach before they opened it up to everybody.  Because just like playstation home, I think playstation now is going to get so much bad press that it is going to be sunk before it can take off.  

It might.  It also might get worked out in this open beta to a good solid price point, with a potential subscription service, and take off.  Time will tell there.  I know I will use the service sparingly myself, but I like the idea behind it.  Especially if they start adding PS1 and PS2 games down the road.