| Teeqoz said: But don't you see that those two could exist perfectly fine together? A PS5 that plays games natively, with better graphics and lower input lag, etc. and PSNow that streams content to anything. PS5 would get the "theatrical releases" of AAA 3rd party games, maybe 3 months before they come to PSNow, thus getting the most out of both types of gamers, the "core" gamers and the "casual" gamers. PSNow on everything though, that is something we can agree on. |
A PS streaming service would have better graphics because it wouldn't need to budget the hardware based on how much the consumer can afford. The PS Now hardware would always be state of the art, and would be able to rival the most modern PCs at the time, instead of restricting itself to consumer generations of 10 year cycles like they do now. The input lag of games in 5 years through streaming can be diminished to such a degree that they would be barely noticable. It's already much better now than it was at launch. Literally the only issue would be fighting games. That's it. Everything else would be fine enough where the input lag would be so small it would effectively be unnoticable, and even with fighting games it could be polished to such a degree where it would only be noticable to the most core of players.
PS Now would still get the "theatrical" type release. The games just wouldn't be available on the subcription until months later, instead opting for the individual rentals at first. "Final Fantasy 16 releases on PS Now today for individual rentals only. It will appear in the Now Subcription Marketplace in 3 months." They'd get 3 months or whatever to get all the inflated sales from people who don't mind paying more to play at launch, and then, months later, it becomes available in the subscription library as well for everyone apart of that ecosystem where it could garner respectable profits indefinitely from there.
I genuinely believe PS Now is the most innovative thing Sony has ever done, the most innovating gaming anything out today, and I think Sony is well aware of its bright future. Like I said, releasing it now alongside the PS4 isn't only neccesary, it's genius. It allows them to slowly build the library over like 5-7 years while effectively getting payed to beta test it the entire time. Then, once the PS4 is being phased out, bam, they rebrand it as the magnum opus of gaming that it was always meant to be.
What excites me about PS Now, and XBL, and the NX is that when all those are in full swing, it'll be the first time in like 20 years that all of the competition will have truly different gaming experiences again. One focused on streaming, one focused on a Steam-like PC platform, and one focused on a unified OS ecosystem amungst numerous devices. The Netflix, Steam Machine, and Apple of gaming, pretty much. And the best part is that they will be the most likely to be able to live harmoneously. Someone can have a Live Machine with a Now subscription and an NXDS. Someone else can have an NX with a Now subscription on their Smart TV and Live on their laptop. Someone else can have a Now TV with Live on their desktop and an NXDS. Such a low barrier to entry for literally anyone. At the cheapest, someone could have both Live and Now on their laptop, and an NXDS. You're effectively just paying for the NXDS, two controllers, and the software. And all three still make a ton of money they couldn't have made otherwise.
