Comments on: PS Now is a Challenging Business Model, Requires Some Innovation in Long Run – Jordan Weisman

By: ambleThought

ambleThought — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:42:00 +0000

I believe Sony has enough 1st party studios to give it try initially. If the model does work out then other pubs might be inclined to follow. A lot of us gamers are older and would love to relive the glory days of our Playstation heritage. I would try it out.

By: brianc6234

brianc6234 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:45:00 +0000

I don’t see how developers would say no to putting their games on this. They’re old games that probably aren’t even selling anymore. This will bring in a ton of money for them since people will want to play old games they can’t play anymore. This isn’t about making new PS4 games and selling them for cheap.

By: Jason Mounce

Jason Mounce — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 19:29:00 +0000

In reply to Dikan45.

Steam shows at least that there is a huge market for those who don’t care and if the price is right, will dip or double-dip in the same of nostalgia or ‘Great price for great content’ or for those who haven’t played all the last, or last-last-gen games. It is a market to encourage fool-proof design. Even though I’ll be one to try to keep doing physical over digital for most cases. The only times I do digital is for games I wish to play and beat, but don’t really care if I own it, they’re the games that you may have felt a duty to play and as long as you can tell yourself “I beat it” then it suffices.

Like, owning ‘Dead Island’ in a case in a ‘wall of games’, doesn’t really shine or glimmer in your collection, it’s then just quantity over quality, so, Non-Teh-Best-Game-evars can go digital while the Huge-epic-you-must-own types can be retail as long as such a model doesn’t get Jacked up to work AGAINST Collectors in such a way. Like, I bought a Gamecube ONLY to grab all the hidden gems of it like Eternal Darkness, I’d not want a ‘digital only version’ of Eternal Darkness, I’d want the real deal.

By: Dikan45

Dikan45 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:53:00 +0000

I’m passing on this, I’ve already played all the last gen and beyond games I wanted to on the other Playstation’s and I’ve no interest in paying more than retail prices for PS4 games with no resale value either!

By: d0x360

d0x360 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:11:00 +0000

Sony and gamers are crazy if they think pubs will give up sale revenue and release anything less than a year old on that service. As someone who has used on live and gaikai I won’t be subscribing. There is far too much latency in controls for most genres to work on a streaming platform. Local emulation is the only way to go for older games. Its awesome Sony is willing to try this but the internet just isn’t fast enough for it to work. Gamers complain about control latency at 30fps these days. Imagine for a second that your input shows up on screen a half second after you hit the button. That’s game breaking. Latency from 30fps is measured in milliseconds. Anything more and games become frustrating.

By: CervantesPR

CervantesPR — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:35:00 +0000

i wonder is PS NOW will take off, if not they can always use the servers for PS4