Have you actually tried other gaming streaming services? If not, Sony is not way ahead of the game. There are several services that will deliver increasing gaming quality depending on your connection (all the way up to 4K and 60fps if you can support the ability.) PSNow sticks you at 720p, 30fps max, compression with artifacts no matter the quality of your connection. And yes I have tried PSNow a few times. It was laggy on my Google fiber connection for no reason I could find and my situa...
Maybe Sony has not built the infrastructure to support PSNow in your region. Building out these data centers isn't cheap. That is why companies rely on the two big cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft instead of building out their own centers.
It would be nice if both Microsoft and Sony were more proactive in bundling their services into deals. I know Microsoft occasionally bundles their software services. Every year I used to buy the Work & Play bundle that would give you Office Home (5 users), Xbox Live Gold, Groove, and Skype for a year plus $25 MS Store give certificate all for around $149. If bought separately it would have been well over twice that price. They haven't done that deal for a while.
That would be nice but, they won't. There is a lot of money spent licensing those 600 games for streaming. If this was just a download service (like GP) that supported a smaller catalog of licensing they probably could get away with $10 permanently. I suspect if (I mean when) Microsoft's releases their streaming service and ties it to GP they too will have to raise the price of their service for the same reason.
@S2Killinit They are not the same price. There is a temporary price drop to make it the PSNow for the moment same price GP. If we are going to count the current sale price Sony is doing that makes PSNow the same price then one also should point out how easy it is to find deals for GP as well (often 50% the current pricing once again making GP 50% off even the PSNow's temporary price drop). I bought two years of GP for my nephew for $120 (deals like that are easy to find for GP) that qu...
What are you talking about? CD Projekt Red was considered a great developer long before Witcher 3. The combined sales of the Witcher 1 and 2 was over 8 million. Both games were critic favorites, multiple game of the year awards and both were noted for the new aspects each iteration brought to the genre.
It is still disappointing Sony doesn't really put more of their own first-party games on the service. I don't expect recent games like but, something like Uncharted 4 or HZD would drive people much more quickly to the service. Right now the service has really only two AAA first-party games on it (Bloodborne and the remastered God of War 3). They need to more proactive with their own studios content.
@S2Killinit
Still twice as expensive. Still limited to PS4/PS2 games. No local PS3 games. Which means most of the catalog is still stuck streaming at 720p with all the additional issues PSNow has. Still no love by Sony for their own first-party PS4 games on the service (Bloodborne and God of War 3 Remaster are really it for first-party games).
Don't get me wrong downloading is a great new option that may breathe some life into the service. However. Sony really...
Universal doesn't own the film rights to Hulk anymore. Marvel has those again. Universal may still have the rights for distribution and that is why there has not been a reboot of Hulk, as Disney doesn't want to give any money to Universal. Fox has been bought by Disney so Marvel can do anything they want with X-Men. Sony better play nice with Disney if they expect that Spider-Man games to keep being exclusive.
Come back to us when the Switch actually surpasses the X1. And even if most likely it does at some time in the future one must still realize it is a 9th gen machine not an 8th gen like the X1 and the PS4. Nintendo and their fans don't get to ignore their 8th was at the Wii U, not the Switch. That makes the X1 in second, not third. Of course, being fair that also means Switch is currently in the lead in a race the others have even entered yet.
Sorry to tell you but Microsoft makes more revenue off their gaming division per capita of Xbox users than Sony does with it console population $10.2 billion in revenue vs $17 billion for Sony. If Sony with a possible twice the size of gaming PS4 consoles one should expect their revenue to also around twice the size as well, but they are not. No they are only 66% more revenue. That is $3 billion shy of reaching that value that it should be in comparison. Or perhaps Sony revenue is right on...
I think you miss who the Microsoft shade is being thrown at. If they were throwing it a Nintendo they would have done it when the NES was released not months later when Sony announces this device.
@-Foxtrot
Here is an answer of why Nintendo does not get the same hate or pushback as Sony is getting. It is for the very reasons the CEO at the time House and later Layden both said BC is not really used (an excuse of why the easy to do emulation of PSOne or PS2 games aren't on the PS4). Yet, this cash grab shows that it has value in the long run. So much so that Sony went out of their way to make a device. Contrary to that Nintendo never made a statement about the lack of old ...
PSVR? You mean Sega right? If we are talking consoles then the reference to VR on these devices goes back the announced and shown off but never released Sega VR glasses in 1993 (which looks suprisingly similar to the design of headsets today). Or perhaps the PSVR can a take on the Nintendo Virtual Boy in 1995. See, PSVR was not even close to being the first VR experience for console devices. Of course their have been VR headsets for gaming on Windows since the 90's as well.
But, Nintendo never had their CEO come out and say no-one wants BC like what happened with the PS4. Andrew House said that it was not wanted by their players and has reiterated again by Layden. So, they are on record as saying BC has no point but yet they bring out a device that is all about BC. Money grab and pure BS on their previous statements! I understand companies want to make money and I am personally fine with that aspect, just not with the BS stance they have taken on this concernin...
@firelogic
Laying around? What type of excuse is that? Even devices costing $10 come with a 50 cent USB cord. And if all devices (which seem to be happening more and more) do this (e.g. printers) at some point those cords (we all supposedly have laying around) will not be laying around any longer because we will be using for all the devices that no longer have them included. This is just a cheap move, plain and simple. And j...
Spider-Man is actually built off the things they learned from Sunset Overdrive. The Spider-Man game is using an updated version of the gaming engine they built specifically for Sunset Overdrive.
Unless I am reading it wrong and to be fair these are the free games that come with the Nintendo online service, not games you have bought, it really is no different than Xbox or PS checking that your XBL Gold or PSplus memberships are active (requiring an online check) in order to make sure you can still play the games that you get free every month with both of those consoles. Out of all the things that I see wrong with this service this to me is a minor issue and similar to how other onlin...
@HeisenbergX
"Ps3 and how lucky we were that generation to have free online "
Ah yes... such short memories of how mediocre PSN was last gen. The days (not just a rare hour two) but actual days it would be down. The hacks it received because it was unsecured. Including the one with personal data of 30 million users was stolen. The lags and slowness. The lack of features compared to the competition. The list goes on. Yes, good times /s. PSN today is so...
