Without Day 1 releases of PS Studios games it is nothing like Game Pass, that is the distinguishing factor.
Itâs the only true distinguishing factor and why Jasonâs headline misses the point. Either that, or it is what his sources told him which is actually bad because it would mean Sony misses the mark or are just trying to cheap out of it.
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Even without Day 1 titles, this has potential to be huge among the hardcore who care about old games.
Three tiers and yet, Sony isnât putting their exclusives on the service day one?? Then what the fuck is the point? PS Now sucks and has always sucked. PS Plus is good but mainly for those who play online multi-player which means people will still subscribe to whatever the cheapest tier is.
Are they getting third party (AAA, AA or Indies) games day one? If no to this as well, no thanks Sony.
And without day one exclusives (and third party games day one), this is NOT a competitor to Game Pass in any way, shape or form. And you have to pay to play the BC titles??? LMFAO!!!
Thatâs not the heart of what GP is. It was concepted as the Netflix of Games, and something can be competing with that without doing a good job competing. I think this sub service will do well for them, but donât see it drawing GP level subscription numbers nor that kinda excitement. It will be seen as a lesser competitor, a follower, and a direct comparison is not favorable in terms of the likely content/features.
More likely his sources at Sony are trying to use him to steer a comparison for the purpose of helping it establish mindshare at the outset. I reckon Jason doesnât mind, heh.
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I donât think so, only the fanboys are going to pay for this, Nintendo got a lot of flak for the very same thing.
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I think that is the heart of it for a lot of people? Whatever it was concepted as, is not what it is today and hence irrelevant. Netflix also discovered the power of original content, and they donât try to sell you the DVD before putting it on the streaming service now do they.
They are merging a couple of existing services and charging for backwards compatibility, I really struggle to see how that is comparable to Game Pass.
Iâd sub to it without Day 1 if it was like EA access and got games 6 months to 12 months later. Iâd never have to buy another Sony game again.
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Game Pass for me is all about games that I want to play day one including Microsoftâs exclusives. Will subscribe this Sunday in preparation for Halo Infinite. If Halo Infinite (and Microsoftâs exclusives in general) wasnât day one in Game Pass, I wouldnât even bother to be honest.
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Ftfy.
To me itâs just a rebranding without Day One games. A key component of GamePass is that day one first party catalogue. Without it it isnât a true competitor. PS Now has had certain third party games release day one on it forever so I really just see it as a way to try and boost Nows popularity using Plus which was actually a successful service.
My GOAT is GT2 because it was my childhood game. The musics, the grinding for money and all licenses to get all that 1.000k cars⌠So if Sony can manage to bringing it back to modern console, I would totally sub ngl. Updated fps or anything would be just a bonus.
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They have? Are you sure you donât mean PS Plus because I donât remember seeing any games day one on PS Now.
Yeah Plus was what I meant. I was thinking of things like Rocket League and Among Us. I think Plus has been a really good service for a long time. Now has struggled a lot more. So it doesnât surprise me Sony would try and link the two, use the Plus branding to try and up sell people on a more expensive overall sub package.
I would imagine investors want to see that revenue climb, but Sony is probably concerned about pushing too aggressively after already raising FP game prices. So my guess is theyâll create a new tier of Plus, include Now in it and charge a bit more. But I donât really see that as a GamePass competitor.
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Netflix and every other video streaming service develop and produce their own exclusive original content and⌠actually include it in their subscription service on day one. So in that regard yes, Game Pass set out to be like that.
What Sony is doing here is nothing like that. At all.
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âI bet game subscription services will be sustainable now!â
Okay I have another take here that makes me question if Sony can pull this off. Part of why Xbox can do this is their games are âone SKUâ where if you have a physical disk, digital purchase, Game Pass, etc⌠itâs all the same game. You can buy a disk game, install it, then put the disk away and access it using Game Pass. The move between PC, XB1, XBX is all pretty seamless. You have a âMicrosoft Accountâ and just access your games however you want.
Now to be perfectly honest Sonyâs management how their game licenses work is kind of a mess. I donât trust them to be able to manage all of these different versions of games very well mainly because they probably will be treating the same games as completely different games just because you got them from a different sources.
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sony account management and infrastructure are the big mystery because it can be easy, or it can be needlessly complicated for no other reason.
I think Sony puts it on the developers to make things like cross saves, cross buy, etc⌠work on their own. This is why it is so spotty.
lol
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