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Who is getting PS Now?

I plan to get the $19.99 option for 1 month. 20 12.82%
 
I plan to get the $44.99 option for 3 months. 15 9.62%
 
Waiting to see how the servers hold up. 17 10.90%
 
Interested, but do not li... 32 20.51%
 
Have no intererest in this service. 72 46.15%
 
Total:156

This week marks the start of PlayStation Nows subscription based offerings in the USA. You can pick up PS Now for $19.99 a month or $44.99 for 3 months starting 01/13/2015. The service will offer 100 games day one, with over 200 titles available in total counting rental based titles. New titles will be added on a weekly bases, with PS1 and PS2 titles to be added in the future. The subscription model will first launch on PS4. PS Now is currently available on PS3, PS Vita, PS4, and all new Sony Bravia TV's. PS Now will be comming to select Samsung TV's, Sony Blu-ray players, Tablets, and Smart Phones in the near future.

New titles for launch week include:

Uncharted Drake's Fortune, Bioshock Infinite, Batman Arkham City, NBA 2K14, Spelunky, The Last of Us, and XCOM: Enemy Within

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/01/05/playstation-now-subscription-program-all-the-details/

 

I personally will be subscribing to the $19.99 one month option. I have treid about 8 titles so far, and they have all worked flawlessly. I have Comcast and live in Washington State. Let me know if you plan on trying the service. I look forward to hearing what everyone thinks, and how well it works in other areas.



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10/03/2010 

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I won't because I like to own my games. But if I really want to play a game I no longer have or wanted to play before, I may consider subscribing for a month or 3.



...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...

I pretty much don't rent games anymore. I feel that demos provide a good enough taste to determine whether a game is worth buying or not. And for games that don't have demos, I'll watch a Let's Play or two. But I'm starting to stray off topic.

I know many people like game rentals. But PS Now will have to cost less than competing rental services. Sure, there's the convenience of instantly playing a game you choose to rent. Unfortunately, the latency, degraded image quality, and inconsistency of real-time streaming will make many games far less enjoyable than if you just rented a disc.

Also, I'm worried that PS Now spells the end of those rumors of the PS4 getting PS2 emulation...



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i am not supporter of digital or streaming in any way



It takes 30 seconds for my internet here to download a 1MB file.

I think I'll pass ok?



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No thanks to the digital steaming.



I am definitely interested, and will probably jump onboard when it comes to Windows 8.1 so I can play the games with my 360 controller :).



Sentient_Nebula said:
I pretty much don't rent games anymore. I feel that demos provide a good enough taste to determine whether a game is worth buying or not. And for games that don't have demos, I'll watch a Let's Play or two. But I'm starting to stray off topic.

I know many people like game rentals. But PS Now will have to cost less than competing rental services. Sure, there's the convenience of instantly playing a game you choose to rent. Unfortunately, the latency, degraded image quality, and inconsistency of real-time streaming will make many games far less enjoyable than if you just rented a disc.

Also, I'm worried that PS Now spells the end of those rumors of the PS4 getting PS2 emulation...


I am just curious to know if you use Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.

I find it very interesting that so many are willing to use those kind of services, but see something like this as a threat or not adequate for their gaming experience. Perhapps, people on these forums are not users of these streaming services? I think I will make a thread and poll about this in around 6 months depending on how PS Now performs in that time.



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10/03/2010 

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Puppyroach said:
I am definitely interested, and will probably jump onboard when it comes to Windows 8.1 so I can play the games with my 360 controller :).


Hopefully everything will go smooth over the next few months and we can start to see this spread to more devices. I would love to be able to jump into a game on my PC at work during lunch or break. Even though I have a 5.2in screen on my Xperia Z3, the 20in monitor and a wired conection would deffinity make for a better experience.



Stop hate, let others live the life they were given. Everyone has their problems, and no one should have to feel ashamed for the way they were born. Be proud of who you are, encourage others to be proud of themselves. Learn, research, absorb everything around you. Nothing is meaningless, a purpose is placed on everything no matter how you perceive it. Discover how to love, and share that love with everything that you encounter. Help make existence a beautiful thing.

Kevyn B Grams
10/03/2010 

KBG29 on PSN&XBL


I’m sure my internet can handle it so if the 7 day trial works smoothly I will buy a month and play a bunch of games. And then when a large batch of games comes out I will buy another month.


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