Sony was right, EA access is a rip-off and needs to flop

[DonFerrari]

Mr Puggsly said:

DonFerrari said:

Mr Puggsly said:

How much does streaming Netflix cost? Who cares? Some people spend many, many hours streaming Netflix every month and pay a measly $9. And that includes content!

With OnLive, when you purchase a game you own it digitally on Steam and can stream your library of games for $8 a month.

Sony is probably more concerned about covering the cost of Gaikai than the price of streaming games.

This was already debunked on the PSNow thread... Kowen was pushing the same point, but when presented that the $8/month put OnLive on incredible debt even when having games with terrible lag and quality issues for a small public.

Their financial problems began before well before their $8 a month strategy. That's something they started doing in recent months. I've completed numerous games on the service and it generally worked fine.

The biggest reason for OnLive's failure is weak support. That's a death sentence for any platform.

Ok fair enough. But seeing that $8/month is basically 60% more than PS+ but on PSNow that could give you access to north of 1k titles in the future, and each publisher wanting a slice I find hard to believe it would cost less than 20 month... If $3/month is good value on 4/5 games on EA, imagine how much it would be with 20-30 publishers and thousand of games.