PSNow getting download feature? (Rumour)

[Mr Puggsly]

setsunatenshi said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Well the promotion will end for PS Now, so check again on prices when it does. And more importantly, the month to month option is too expensive.

Your personal taste is subjective. Objectively, new AAA games coming to Xbox  Game Pass will appeal to more people than a collection of PS3 games and some older PS4 games.

I see PS Now simply as an option, its not being designed for mass appeal and can't be with its dated selection of games. MS is going a different direction, they want Gamepass to be a popular service.

Agreed completely on the taste being subjective, that was exactly my original point.

But you can't say in the immediate following sentence that X games coming to Xbox will appeal to more people than a collection of PS3 + some PS4 games. If Xbox first party was really that appealing we wouldn't have the user base split we currently have.

Appeal to popularity is something that really doesn't stick when arguing for Xbox, at least not this generation.

I'll finish as I started though, different people will find each offer more or less worth the price and that's absolutely ok. Would be a boring world if we all liked the same thing :)

Okay... let me explain what you got wrong.

PS4's success is not actually due to its exclusives. It was crushing X1 even when PS4 had mediocre exclusives. Sony launched a better designed console at a lower price, that's objective and helped PS4 excel at launch.

PS Now WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL if all it offers is old games at a regularly high subscription price.

A game like Forza Horizon 4 has the potential to sell several million on its own. But that game is going to be on Game Pass at launch, that will appeal to more people than a collection of old games alone.

Hence, if PS Now offered some 1st party games at launch the service would achieve great popularity. So if you don't get my argument its as simple as this, NEW GAMES GET MORE SUBSCRIBERS.

Look at Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime for example. They grew in success by launching new/original content on their services.That's essentially what Game Pass is doing and why its more relevant than PS Now.