| Vena said:
1.) PS division has only been profitable if you ignore the massive billion dollar loses its acrued and, subsequently, not actually recouped. They have only recently actually started being in the positive but they were, before, bleeding money on the PS3. As for the rest, yes those companies were one-trick-ponies but the fact of the matter is that there isn't exactly much of any demand for such services. Sony is marketting it very much as if they expect people to pick this thing up. I am comparing emulators because, in this day and age, it doesn't take a spool of CAT5 to wire your TV to your computer or an entertainment mini-PC which will be able to play any and all games you may like, on your TV, in better resolution/response/rendering than anything that PSNow can ever hope to achieve. PSNow is not good backwards compatability because it is a streaming service (ie: bad quality presentation, control lag, and so on)... and it costs an arm and a leg. What you have there is a badly constructed talking point. You'd spend less money and have better quality gaming just buying a PS3 if you were so desperate for the library that Sony decided not to include with the PS4. You should be well, aware, that I do hate the idea of consoles removing their older cataloges through the lack of BC. 2.) I did not dismiss it, I said it will be quite interesting to watch it possibly fail for very, very real reasons. Input lag is a killer when gaming because it only broods frustration. Its a very real thing. Netflix is an non-interactive thing, the comparison is terrible. Might as well compare gaming to reading a book. |
- No doubt PS division lost billions thanks to the high costs of manufacturing a PS3. But from 2009 when they righted that ship they had been profitable till 2013 when the PS4 released. Any gaming company posts losses on the year of a new console release. As for your marketing the simple fact is that they aren't doing anything you are saying. They aren't marketing PSnow as if they expect people to pick it up cause its not only in a beta, but even sony has said they have to be cautious and slow with its implementation as to get things right. So don't know where you are getting your information.
And you still talk about emulation but fail to point out any kinda of PC rig on the planet that is currently able to emulate PS3/PS4 games so again I don't see how its relevant. And again, you seem to look at PSnow like its some essential killer app service, it isn't... its primarily about options. I understand that PSnow still has tons of technical hurdles to overcome, but again, thats why its in beta. And from how sony is pushing it, it may very well be in beta for the next 2 years. - Input lag is n issue no doubt, and yes it will be interesting to see how it pans out; I have no clue how it will be causeI have not seen the service in action and how good or bad it could be. I do not that a few people have an internet connection capabl of running things like that, and ultimately... barring your internet connection input lag can technically be brought down to standard online multiplayer levels. That is a technical possibility.
And no, a video streaming service (interactive or not) has more in common to a game streaming service with the only difference being that you also send or recieve controller inputs than reading a book.
