Pemalite said:
For starters... There is this thing called "Virtualization", "Binary Translation", "Abstraction" and "Emulation" that allows for Microsofts current backwards compatibility efforts to be a drop in on next-gen hardware/other devices with minimal effort.
Of course that's going to happen. Sony has a larger piece of the console market than Microsoft.
You can stream Gamepass titles to PC via the Windows 10 Xbox app I think... You still need a console to do the heavy lifting/rendering though. |
We had users swear XBL Gold have more subscribers than PS+ and that they make more money out of it than Sony and all the 2:1 HW Sony have this gen is irrelevant because of it.
zorg1000 said:
Youre missing my point. You're right that they could/should have added it earlier but if they didnt care and didnt want it to succeed than why are they trying to add value to it? If they didnt care than they would have just left PS4 games off of it forever. They also just announced last month that the service is coming later this year to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland & Sweden. Kind of weird to add regions to the service you dont want to succeed. |
Sony doesn't care, they paid several hundred million dollars on Gaikai just for the giggles.
Soundwave said:
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? |
Yes they will, as MS have tramped PS4 this gen as promised because of their infinity money.
lansingone said: Pretty sure the only reason MS is doing day one games on game pass is because with their current cycle of games, they make more money. If they increase their yearly output, they'd start losing money. It's currently 120 per year, so if they release 2 AAA games in one year, and the average subscriber played them both, they would probably lose money right there because if they have 3rd party games on it, they'll need to pay those publishers something. I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped the day one rule for next gen. |
They also do it because they are on the losing end so needs positives. Sony offered free MP on PS3 (with those codes for second hand tried and failed) because X360 was fierce competitor, but put it behind PS+ this gen.
Conina said:
So you are just throw around some numbers all the time and don't even know what you are talking about? That's hilarious! To help you a bit... it ain't THAT complicated to find out which games are downloadable and which are streaming only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Now_games You were also talking about "an exclusive library in the hundreds". The PS Now library has hundreds of games, but only a small fraction of them is exclusive. |
I believe he wanted to say exclusives to the service compared to GamerPass.
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Movies are mostly doing fine. Music is doing terrible though. If you look at the financials of the Music Industry compared to today, then you'll see they really are in the toilet now. |
Movies/Series cost less to make, are faster to produce and have a much bigger audience, so that is one big reason for streaming on it being possibly less damaging than in gaming.
@Thread with Sony allowing download on PSNow for games that run native on the system of PS4, plus rumor of full BC on PS5, PSNow may offer just about all streaming and download from all digitalized library of PS on it, with streaming only option to be on other devices.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."