Agreed.

Nothing wrong with the suits themselves. 🙂

I just used that as a term to describe how large corporations work. To put a price like that even on a beta makes me think that it didn’t seem unreasonable to them in their board room discussions. It is a fair point that the prices could drop and I said before that hopefully they will…………..but I wouldn’t expect it to be much when this is your starting point. Remember the price attached to the Vita memory cards? Sony tends to suck at pricing things with the one exception of the PS4. Everything else is disproportional to other things on the market.

I am a potential customer for PS Now, just not using a PS4 or a PS Vita. I want it to succeed, mostly because I would rather pay $30 to play The Last of Us or Uncharted than to pay $230 to do the same thing. I was excited when they announced that future support for PS Now would extend to tablets and televisions.

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Your opinion isn’t surprising considering this…

As an Xbox One owner with no intention to buy a PS4

The service is in BETA I bet the pricing is in BETA too. A publisher attaching a high price to their property isn’t anything new and shouldn’t be a big reason for ire. Especially when in the framework of a service that is in BETA.

Believe it or not Publishers understand that a price point has to be met in order to make money. This is basic economics and can’t be ignored by any business of any scale.

Put you pitchforks and torches away and wait for the actual roll-out of the service. I would be surprised if there wasn’t any benefits for PS+ people.

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people in business suits still thought this was good pricing for a beta test. It certainly won’t change unless people complain about it.

There is no evidence to suggest that Sony isn’t going to naturally change the pricing over the course of the beta. IMHO the beta is just as much about testing the streaming as it is about testing the pricing.

My speculation is Sony isn’t relying on what my customers say the price points should be, they may be starting high with the intent of lowering them over time. Just asking the community what would they pay would likely get you a low-ball estimate. Going the route I explain above would be more precise.

What’s wrong with business suits? 🙂

True…….but people in business suits still thought this was good pricing for a beta test. It certainly won’t change unless people complain about it.

The fact is you can’t expect your client base to come up with a logical price, because they will always lowball you. So it would be better in this instance to start your pricing high and lower them over time and see what motivates people to rent.

The system you are suggesting would be awful as people could stream as many games as thy wanted in a 10 hour block, which would likely tax the servers higher. Also the 10 hour block treats all games equally, which some publishers would not like. I highly doubt RockStar wants to make the same money that OctoDad dev does.