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BMaker11 on 05 January 2015
Galahaddy said:

See, personally i don't find use in a subscription for this. Having access to all those games is great and all but how am i going to find time to actually make it worth it? I'd rather just rent one game here and there according to my availability and spend less money at a time/period

Still waiting for this to come to EU

But when they ask for $5.99 for a 7-day rental (less than old Blockbuster prices. much less than current redbox prices at $3/day), everyone bitched at the prospect of renting one game here and there, because it was "too expensive".

It's precisely why they came up with a subscription model.



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BMaker11 on 05 January 2015
Chevinator123 said:
I think Sony is scared

They are overestimating how much games people will actually play. They dont want to price it too low because they think people are gonna be streaming games 24/7 witch will cost them more $$$ then the subscription money they get but i dont think thats the case at all.

How many movies on Netflix do people watch per month? like 5? a game could take 10-20+ hrs to complete like possibly a week or 2 for 1 game

Of course none of this matters to me because i still have my ps3 with over 140 physical games (still got my ps2 too)

It's precisely why a new movie costs $20, while a new game costs $60. You pay more when you get more entertainment. Game rentals have always cost more than movie rentals (well, games vs movies, in general), because they have longevity beyond the 2 hours you spend watching a movie. Whether you go back to the 90s and look at Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc. or you look now with Redbox. So it's not really fair to compare PS Now to Netflix pricing and look at it in a bad light. Especially when, right now, it's cheaper than apples to apples alternatives (like Gamefly or OnLive)



GribbleGrunger on 05 January 2015
Lafiel said:

while PS4 is the first system for this I think Sony mainly wants to target people who don't own any PS console and want to play some sophisticated games on their phones/tablets/TVs

Hooray! Someone gets it.



 

The PS5 Exists. 


foodfather on 05 January 2015

Laughable price point. $180 to play a bunch of old games that can be brought for anywhere bewteen $3 - $15 dollars....

Last year I brought a PS3 (£150) and spent around £80 on games including 3 months of PS+. I played around 28 games, mostly exclusives that it missed out on and sold it all for around £170 4 months later. The whole thing only cost me £60 - 70 in the end.



Augen on 05 January 2015

If I was a kid with parents who had good internet this would be heaven. As an adult with limited free time (not unusual for a game to take me months to complete) the value proposition is not there for me.



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Xenostar on 05 January 2015
poklane said:

That trailer is really misleading tho, lots of games in the trailer aren't on PlayStation Now. Games in the trailer not available with PlayStation Now (yet):

  1. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
  2. Bioshock Infinite
  3. Batman: Arkham City
  4. NBA 2K14
  5. Spelunky
  6. The Last of Us
  7. XCOM: Enemy Within


They may be adding these in when the subscription service starts 



Neodegenerate on 05 January 2015
foodfather said:
Laughable price point. $180 to play a bunch of old games that can be brought for anywhere bewteen $3 - $15 dollars....

Last year I brought a PS3 (£150) and spent around £80 on games including 3 months of PS+. I played around 28 games, mostly exclusives that it missed out on and sold it all for around £170 4 months later. The whole thing only cost me £60 - 70 in the end.


Good thing someone like you isn't the target PS Now audience.



Burek on 05 January 2015
foodfather said:
Laughable price point. $180 to play a bunch of old games that can be brought for anywhere bewteen $3 - $15 dollars....

Last year I brought a PS3 (£150) and spent around £80 on games including 3 months of PS+. I played around 28 games, mostly exclusives that it missed out on and sold it all for around £170 4 months later. The whole thing only cost me £60 - 70 in the end.


But you played it for 4 months...so it's not $180 but $80 at its most expensive. Plus you don't need to buy any console, and can just have a used DS3 that you can resell later.

So, basically, the same price you paid, even cheaper, without any need to physically purchase and then resell a console and a crapload of games.



Xenostar on 05 January 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
Lafiel said:

while PS4 is the first system for this I think Sony mainly wants to target people who don't own any PS console and want to play some sophisticated games on their phones/tablets/TVs

Hooray! Someone gets it.

Yeah they just announded PS Now will be coming to Samsung smart Tvs, id imagine it will also be coming to a lot of phones as well at some point, all a device needs is either bluetooth or a USB port for a pad and i expect Sony will be trying to get PS Now on it at some point. 



Vena on 05 January 2015

spemanig said:

Setting the framework up now will allow them to iron out streaming issues like input lag. By 2020, I'm sure these issues will hardly be noticable, and by that time, they can just launch their DS5 as the already established PS Now, with a back catalog of four generations of Playstation games and multiplats, all sold at different rates.

Unless Sony plans on breaking the speed of light, the input lag isn't going to go away.