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Mr Puggsly on 30 October 2019
Leynos said:
pokoko said:

Why are you typing like that?  

Why?  I don't see how less competition is good for the consumer.  

It's a meme when stupid things are said. So people like me who like to own their media. Esp games and then see services shut down like this. Makes me think of Stadia.

Thats a valid argument in regard to buying stuff digitally. But PS Vue is irrelevant to that argument. Its just a TV streaming service.

The concept of TV is becoming pretty obsolete unless you really enjoy live stuff like sports and news.



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Leynos on 30 October 2019
Mr Puggsly said:
Leynos said:

It's a meme when stupid things are said. So people like me who like to own their media. Esp games and then see services shut down like this. Makes me think of Stadia.

Thats a valid argument in regard to buying stuff digitally. But PS Vue is irrelevant to that argument. Its just a TV streaming service.

The concept of TV is becoming pretty obsolete unless you really enjoy live stuff like sports and news.

Stadia is a streaming service. You pay monthly then have to pay full price for games on top of that...to stream a game. So when Google does shut it down. All that money is gone down the toilet. So when I see even if just a TV streaming service,I see the same for gaming services like Stadia. At least with TV you just pay your $10 a month and not asked to then buy the films on top of it.



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hunter_alien on 30 October 2019

Not a bit surprised by this. It was obvious for some time now that it is suffering. It always felt like a too little too late service if I am being entirely honest.



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Sixteenvolt420 on 30 October 2019

I will miss it. It has most of the channels that i use to watch on cable. I guess i'll be looking for a replacement. Youtube Tv is looking like the forerunner for me so far.



hunter_alien on 30 October 2019
twintail said:
hunter_alien said:
Not a bit surprised by this. It was obvious for some time now that it is suffering. It always felt like a too little too late service if I am being entirely honest.

Sorry, what?

PS Vue was one of the first services to offer live TV over streaming. 

True, but they never got the price/content right and all other competitors pulled ahead of it. In all honesty, it always felt half-assed a bit. Who even pays that insane amount for live tv anymore? Are service providers that incredibly expensive in the US? 



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thismeintiel on 30 October 2019
pokoko said:
Leynos said:
sTreAMiNG Is teH FUtUrE!

Why are you typing like that?  

KLAMarine said:
Nice to see these services shut down after so many have been cropping up as of late... Apple, Disney, and others I'm sure...

Why?  I don't see how less competition is good for the consumer.  

It's pretty obvious. Some competition is great. But, when there is too much, especially with these streaming services, things aren't great.

Everyone's seeing the success of Netflix and Hulu, and instead of just getting paid to put there content on there for everyone, they want a bigger piece of the pie. So, now everyone is removing content or making it too expensive for those services to pay for that content and keep their sub price low, moving it to their own service instead.

We are actually getting to the point where it is more expensive to sub to all of these services than it was to have a decent cable package. Something that wasn't supposed to happen with this great streaming future.



 

DonFerrari on 30 October 2019

At the time I thought it was a good idea that would save me money, to bad it didn't work out.



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."

DonFerrari on 30 October 2019
irstupid said:
pokoko said:

Why are you typing like that?  

Why?  I don't see how less competition is good for the consumer.  

Less competition? Ha

Normally yes, but at the moment it seems that anyone and everyone can pop in and say "we are streaming now, and charge $10-15"

They either last or decide to shut down. No one is ever lowering their prices, which is what competition is supposed to do. 

Yep. Basically all this good competition just fractured what was on Netflix for a single 15-20 sub for 10 subs of 10-15. Not a great gain for customers.

And similar stuff happened to crunchyroll that was also a single stop for anime, but all this other non-specialized stream decided to have some anime on them and gone hunting some licenses and crunchy lost them.



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."

V-r0cK on 30 October 2019

Sony knows Disney+ is going to take over anyways lol



DonFerrari on 30 October 2019
thismeintiel said:
pokoko said:

Why are you typing like that?  

Why?  I don't see how less competition is good for the consumer.  

It's pretty obvious. Some competition is great. But, when there is too much, especially with these streaming services, things aren't great.

Everyone's seeing the success of Netflix and Hulu, and instead of just getting paid to put there content on there for everyone, they want a bigger piece of the pie. So, now everyone is removing content or making it too expensive for those services to pay for that content and keep their sub price low, moving it to their own service instead.

We are actually getting to the point where it is more expensive to sub to all of these services than it was to have a decent cable package. Something that wasn't supposed to happen with this great streaming future.

It is all walking to people going back to torrent.



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."