Mr Puggsly said:
KBG29 said:
I think the real reason for PS TV is a cheap entry point for Sony's Cloud Based TV service, and a cheap option for expanding that service to other TV's around the house. Then it also gives you PS4 support and, PSN/SEN support throught the house.
If Sony can get that service to grow and become profitable, the support will come for games and apps, and they can build an OS off of that for their own mobile platform down the road. As I have said before. The US alone has over 160 million active set top boxes for cable and dish services. Sony is leading the charge at this,and it may be their last chance to make a cash cow, that can bring their services, software, and devices to the level of relevence of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung.
As for Nintendo and Microsoft. I think something like this would be a welcome addition to their hardware lineup. It seems like somthing MS could easily slap together with Windows 10 uniting all of their devices.
Games to try. PS Now, seriously, this service is great. Killzone Mercenary, Tearaway, and FFX. Then there are too many PSP, and PS1 titles to list. |
If the goal was simply to have a box that can stream video, they could have made something cheaper like Chromecast which is only $30. In fact, they should probably make something like that.
If Sony wants to make their streaming services available to an even wider audience, they would add PC support.
It seems like a big goal of PS TV was to give the Vita a userbase boost. Hence, more PS TV units sold would be more of a reason for developers to support Vita. But that doesn't seem to be working out well.
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Nah, they need to sell those Vita games.
