You have it Backwards, Playstation NOW leads above Xbox GamePass

[forevercloud3000]

Soundwave said:

forevercloud3000 said:

My point is GamePass purpose is to eventually lead into Streaming(to be on more than just Xbox) which PSNow has beaten it to the punch in that regard. Not to mention, Sony added the ability to directly download a large portion of the games just like XB1 so that is a moot point.

The quality disparity could def be a big factor...but I question how much.  As Sony just said in their Keynote they had a week ago, average consumers do not look at games in pixel ratios. Sure, they latch on to the buzz words but mostly they just want to be able to have the experience for the cheapest and most unhindered.  Most of the kids playing on PC are using dated monitors and hardware by Elite Pro standards. Phones and Switch also are not sporting 4K visuals and why would they need to? People will go with what has more of perceived value, usually quality vs Price. 

PSNow can be the inferior performing streaming service....but if it is the service with more games and more exclusives on the devices that people predominantly own......then it can maintain it's lead. Not to mention no matter what MS does, their service will not have Sony exclusives which are likely a service seller and decider.

Sony is going to get trampled, if not by MS, by Amazon or Google. 

They are small potatoes compared to those companies and they have a major conflict of interest with streaming becoming too good. They can't make the service too good because then the problem is a lot of people will start to ask why they even need a PS5. MS doesn't really care if you buy a physical XBox or not. Obviously Google or Amazon don't care. That's a huge difference. 

For a 5 year old service PSNow is very poor. How is it they don't even have support for smartphones or tablets? What decade are they in? 2002? 

If buying your way into the gaming industry cemented you a spot MS would have won a generation already. It doesn't matter that new competitors are larger. Nintendo has survived much bigger companies than it and Sony is no less savvy. 

Like what do we realistically expect Amazon or Google to do? Offer Streaming services? Ok, but what content? The same multiplatform content available on all the others? I mean really to be a big contender in the Gaming World you need Exclusives. Exclusive games and or exclusive features. Amazon I could surely imagine bundling it's gaming with it's existing subscription service.....but that still wouldn't incentivize over Playstation or Xbox who have studios making games just for them.

Amazon and Google could buy up a ton of game devs but it doesn't mean what they churn out will be any good. 

You are largely overestimating what these companies can realistically do to shake up gaming.