How can Game Pass have 15% of the market when Game Pass has been confirmed to have way more users than PSNow? We all know that Game Pass has millions of users whereas Sony confirmed that PSNow has 700K users.
Sony simply isn't aggressive enough to court Indies to release their content on PSNow Day 1. Microsoft simply has better dealings than Sony in this regard.
When getting onto other platforms Microsoft is WAY better in creating partnerships and has a much bigger reach than Sony.
I can guarantee you that nobody will pay $20 per month for PS Now. 700K with only 40% yoy growth is bad.
Nintendo and especially Sony will not allow a third party provider on their ecosystem. Both Nintendo and Sony know that the moment Microsoft is allowed Game Pass, Xbox Live, XCloud onto their systems, developers will shift towards Microsoft's Game tools, Ecosystem.
I have no idea why Sony fanboys are here. The only reason why they dismiss it is because they know Sony will absolutely struggle in a subscription war and generating good value out of it.
The reality is that Sony's overall ecosystem is shit compared to Microsoft's, Amazon, Apple and Google's
Microsoft is a company that is willing to take a short term pain for long term gain. If loosing money will allow Microsoft to gain a massive user base, they would take it.
But has a market cap double of Sony. According to your definition, Netflix is a failure despite being bigger than Sony.
Sorry if they don't do a Game Pass, their PSNow service is guaranteed to be a failure.
Why would anyone subscribe to Sony's service over Game Pass? Right now PSNow content is absolute garbage. Game Pass gets good releases of games whereas PSNow only has very old titles.
The main feature of Netflix is the monthly subscription to access all their games, not streaming itself.
It's not a desperation move. It's a move to get into the subscription market. If you get the users first and have them invest in the service. They stay on it.
If Microsoft succeeds in this market will Sony be able to compete against aggressive deals, very unlikely.
Industry consolidation was inevitable. It happens with all industries, however with subscriptions, it accelerates. Microsoft is super well positioned in a consolidating industry, since they have the money to aggressively buy studios. Sony currently
Regarding your comment for it's only good for gamer who buy into Xbox, you're right that it's not everyone, the only people who are impacted are PS owners.
Games like Cities Skylines will suit well with a Cloud platform.
No. There will always be a need for a console. However it's clear that over time consoles will become less and less important. The console sales overall has been pretty flat to declining and isn't growing.
@xX-oldboy-Xx With the gaming industry moving to Platform Agnosticism, having singular hardware platforms makes no sense in this day in age.
It's only Sony fans wanting Xbox to fail because they know that Sony can't compete in an acquisition war.
Unfortunately, Console exclusives demographic is declining and the industry as a whole is moving towards Platform Agnosticism. Sony, Microsoft, Google and even Nintendo are rumoured to create their agnostic streaming service.
Actually it is possible. We could just see Xbox hardware become white label hardware for Sony to add their games and services and controller on top.
Or maybe Sony knew that they had to swallow their pride and admit that they couldn't compete by going alone?
The Bloomberg articles sum it up well. Sony, Nintendo has to learn a painful lesson that if you are to compete in the Cloud market, you need data centres, networking to even get a foothold.
Microsoft, Amazon and Google along with Publishers and developers are going to have increasingly more power over traditional gaming companies like Sony an...
We haven't seen anything on Sony's shift on Cloud Gaming at all. In fact we saw a lot of commitment of Microsoft and Google in Build 2019 and Google IO 19. Google and Microsoft have the developer tools to make their Cloud services and Game Streaming service more enticing to use.
What does Sony have over the competition? People are simply being realistic, because they know that Sony is behind in the Cloud software game, Microsoft is also rumoured to give XCloud serve...
We will see more and more content long term to become exclusive to Subscription services. However, the first genre that will likely be on the chopping block in this market will be the games Sony excels at. This business model punishes AAA Single Player one-off narrative games that have no MTX and Microtransactions. IF the market moved to Day 1 releases, those AAA SP games would likely be the first to go.