Dont you give them ideas. Seriously dude, what you mentioned is frightining.

Fortunately, I am on Frontier FIOS (THANK GOD I am no longer a Verizon customer!), and they have yet to impose any kind of throttling or bandwidth caps. The PS Now service works perfectly for me...the pricing, however, does not! IF they fix the pricing, I wouldn't hesitate to use it...but I am not paying $8 to rent a game for a week again! I could see this being VERY popular, however, if they offer it as a subscription service at a reasonable price.

yep, because psnow is a new alternative choice to the traditional buisness model instead of taking the exisiting business model and chaning it for the worse.

A pricing model wouldn't be too hard to arrive at. The game renatl thing can lways be very flexible especially if the games are made available on the service 6-9 months after their release.

I dunno, but I can't help but feel this is an inevitable destination of gaming as we know it. I believe there will still always be a proper console box, one that you can buy and have at your house and download games to instead of streaming games. I also believe that a benefit of having a smaller "stream box" or devices that support the service as an app means that they could go crazy with whatever that home console will be. The PS5 could very well be a $1200 console for those that want to buy the console and $99 for those that want just the stream box.

but that alternate choice is just as bad as Sim City or Diablo 3 seriously i have no idea why anyone thinks this is a good idea when streaming games is just as bad as what Micrsoft tried to pull last year and what Bizarrd and EA pulled with those 2 games that rightfully were criticize big time for those stunts and Sony should be as well just in case if they are trying to make cloud gaming the future.

you know, talking to him is an excercise in futility - he has his ideology and that won't change a bit even in the face of rational arguments

he wants to be annoying and gain attention, so in my opinion it's best to deny him that

this is the only way i can see cloud gaming actually being something good and not anti consumer 

they were criticised, because there was only 1 way to play their games

game streaming in an option that is preferable to the traditional distribution way in certain situations (for example: you only have a bad pc and want to play a high tech single player game -> only need to pay for streaming and not need to buy a new pc)

people to whom it is advantageous should use it, people that gain nothing from it shouldn't bitch about it's existence

if you don't like the choice don't choose it.  i love netflix.  a netflix like gaming streaming service is something i would like if the content for the price hits the right balance.  if you don't like netflix buy dvds.  if you don't like psnow buy the disc.  

but the reason sony isn't getting critisized is still very simple,.. they are building a new alternative service.   it very well may fail but if it succeeds it is because consumers choose it over the other options not because they were forced to.   people hate feeling like they are forced to do something.  that, and only that, is why sony isn't being scandalized like xbox was last year.  choice. 

Pretty terrible video. He does have some valid points, but when your argument involves completely neglecting to mention the positives in a balanced manner, as well as cherry picking information relating to other issues, it's perhaps not one you should be making.

I see nothing wrong with the service. It offers a new way of providing content to people that removes the need for native gaming hardware. If people don't want it or if Sony delivers it in a manner that makes people unhappy, then they still have the option of going out and buying a console/gaming PC and buying their content on disk or through downloads.