PS Now: Unlimited Access To Well Over 350 PS4 Games and streaming of over 700 to PC+PS4
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https://www.videogameschronicle.com...-game-pass-helped-outer-worlds-says-take-two/
IMO these services hurt the value of new games, it tends to act more like a extended demo and convince me not to buy said game. The only games I have finished on XB GP was Crackdown 3, because it was so short. Everything else I just stopped playing and was thankful I didn't pass full price. Where with a retro list or classic releases, you know what you are getting.
I know it's Screen Rant, but I thought this funny & surprising. I'm not a PS fan but I at least know about PS Now.
Sony Needs Its Own Game Pass-Like System on PS5
Xbox Game Pass is one of the biggest innovations of the generation, and it's something Sony will need to cope with looking forward to the PS5.
https://screenrant.com/sony-game-pass-system-ps5/
Tommy McClain
Sony Needs Its Own Game Pass-Like System on PS5
Xbox Game Pass is one of the biggest innovations of the generation, and it's something Sony will need to cope with looking forward to the PS5.
https://screenrant.com/sony-game-pass-system-ps5/
Tommy McClain
It's the Internet age, no such thing as reporters. Everyone has an opinion even it's ignorant & biased. Granted I might be biased, but I at least try not to be ignorant. SMH
Tommy McClain
I think it shows more Sony's failure at marketing if someone into console gaming doesn't know what the service is. That really is Sony's responsibility - they can't slip a service out there (or quietly update one already out) and expect people to know about it or go researching changes Sony may have made. They should have given free subs to game journalists etc., get some real coverage.
Maybe. The service might do well with a re-launch with PS5. Maybe even a name change. Maybe that's been their plan?
Tommy McClain
If the article was about Sony's failure to market the service properly, that would be fine. But a reporter's job is to inform, and this author even claims to be a graduate of a journalism program, yet the entire premise of the piece is false due to ignorance. How hard is it to google "PlayStation gamepass competitor" before hitting that publish button?
What are you talking about? All the top results you're showing have the words "PlayStation Now" or "PS Now" in them. How incompetent of a reporter do you have to be to look at those results and not even think you might need to find out what PS Now is?
Currently 25% off for new subscribers. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-17-ps-now-deal-25-percent-off-new-subscribers
Eurogamer.
It seems odd for sure. It’s like Sony has some kind of reservation holding them back.
Back in Oct, Sony stated they had 1 million subs with a projection of growing the userbase by 50% annually.
Contrast that to MS who stated they had millions of subscribers late in 2018. A year later they claimed during nov 19 that they had doubled the sub base in the last year. While last Jan they claimed they had doubled the userbase in the last quarter alone.
Given its market share, Sony should be able to easily eclipse game pass sub numbers with just the same amount of marketing MS has invested.
I wonder if Sony may be concerned that a sub based service may be somewhat disruptive to a transition to a new gen. How many would readily buy next gen consoles with a handful of launch titles when their current hardware still offers hundreds of titles they haven’t touched yet but just a download away?
Maybe Sony wants to tie the marketing with PS Now with the PS5.
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DuckThor Evil
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No, you can download most of the PS4 and PS2 games on PS Now to your system, it's only the PS3 games that can't be downloaded.
See?! Loyal PS user still doesn't know what PSNow is! PSNow allows local downloads of PS4 games. About 350 local PS4 games, and another 450 titles for streaming including PS3 games. Here we are in a thread discussing the service, where this has been mentioned before, and here we have a Sony user coming in with their out-dated understanding. If that doesn't show a problem of communication from Sony, I don't know what does.
So far, yes. If they want a more meaningfull competitor to gamepass things will have to change.
Yes, Game Pass includes game for PC, although not an identical library. Streaming quality is also better for Game Pass (PSNow still capped at 720p?), and GP streams to more devices.
