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There is going to be a subscription plan. It was stated in the video on their Youtube channel. Honestly I really dont see how this will work without a subscription. 

The 30-90 day prices seem pretty good. Even the 7 day one is good, $1 a day is good. The 4 hour thing is stupid as shit though. Just do 24 hours $1.99 and be done with it.

Also they should have a subscription for those of us who don't want do deal with rentals. Something like 6-12 bucks a month gets us the ability to play any game we want at any time.

People complaining about the rental price and comparing to cheap used always find all games they want dirty cheap? Because I remember Sony saying they plan on getting "all ps3 games" on psnow.

And about subscription, if it is ilimited and include the whole library of ps1+2+3 then anything less than 20 a month will be unprofitabble unless they only put 1st parties.

Maybe with psnow and things like EA vault we start to see something like cable TV and make your own package of devs.

Oh man....you're gonna go in any which direction to try and spin it negatively, aren't you?  

I don't care about them risking profits. As long as my experience is good, then I am fine. You are still stuck on the price being unreasonable, but I and several other people have shown you that the pricing is actually on par or better than current other rental services. Just because it's not the Netflix model doesn't mean it it's bad. 

I would much rather pay $8 and get a game for a week, then get a hard copy for $14 a week. I would much rather pay $20 and get 2 games for a month instantly, than pay $23 a month for 2 games (out at a time) and have to wait on shipping and possibly not be able to get the games I want due to limited supply. I especially would prefer that if I was someone without a PS3. What's unreasonable about that other than "It's Sony. So it's bad"?

You keep saying "$10-15 a month" is the "reasonable price" for a subscription model and it would be brilliant.....yet you also tried to use OnLive to refute me, which is burning through cash to support a measly 1800 concurrent users with a $8 subscription, and the experience is shitty to boot. Obviously your "reasonable price" of $10 ain't good enough (unless you think $2 is the difference maker (between OnLive's $8 and your proposed $10)). 

If Sony offered a $10 subcription, though, and the experience was good, I'd totally welcome it. But it also means they are taking losses elsewhere, which ultimately still affect me. So actually, I don't know if I'd welcome it. I don't care about their profits (PS3 was in the red for m ost of it's life), but if the costs > the revenue with a $10 sub, and they start having to take cuts elsewhere (halting development on new IPs for example), well, I think my "Playstation future" trumps old titles. 

Why do you think it's still in beta and made it open now? To stress test and collect feedback on prices. They've already said they're gonna adjust the 4-hour price to $1.99, for example. I think they should get rid of that altogether and just give demos, but they are making sure that when it's rolled out, it'll be a good service

The main thing turning me off is that it's a streaming service but I suppose that might be the only option they have to make sure people don't figure out a way to keep the games. It would be nice if they had a short trial to test out how well the service is or a cheaper price for the 4 hour option.

I'm not really sure what they can do to make everyone happy, it sounds like a nice idea but I'm still quite skeptical about the execution.

The pricing on PS Now is ridiculous since it is an all digital streaming service with alot higher turnaround on games than a physical renting service. Hopefully when others follow suit, prices will drop fast.

I can rent older game titles from the local DVD rental store for $5 or less and that's New Zealand dollars, PS Now should be $3.99 for a week and $2.99 for up to 5 4hr rentals for 5 different games. If it's a game that can be finished in 4 hours then it's not worth more than that and for everything else its a taster and if you like it you'll end up getting the 1 week rental anyway.

Subscription model is essential and I don't understand why Sony didn't realise it now needed to be the central plank of PS Now right from the start.

The only right decision they've made is to call this a Beta so all the changes they make are part of the development cycle rather than desperate attempts to keep the service viable. At least that's the PR angle. I just hope the beta users get some compensation for the money they waste helping Sony to figure out what they should have known from the beginning.

I'm excited for what this service might become, but right now it looks bad and headed towards failure.

License cost, server costs and not making the new game market seem to expensive with 60 a pop.