PlayStation Now‘s pricing model has ruffled feathers between fans and even between many of those that were enthusiastic about the service before. In the meanwhile Sony seems to be looking into more options, as shown by a survey seeking for the testers’ opinion on possible “Deluxe versions” of games.
PlayStation dominated cloud gaming users throughout 2021, beating Microsoft's xCloud streaming by over 10%, but Xbox swings back at PlayStation in 2022.
“In 2022, Microsoft took the lead with 60-70% of total MAUs”
From 20-30% up to 60-70%? That’s some crazy growth. Probably thanks to Fortnite.
What a clickbait headline. Why mention 2021, when the tides turned in 2022 for the obvious reason of one company making the Cloud service one of their biggest marketing pushes throughout the entire year while the other company was able to promote the games they had coming out?
And it's imprudent to suggest crazy growth when we only know proportions - did Xbox grow its proportion by attracting from the competitors' bases, did their marketing pay off and attract new users, or did cloud gamers on competitors just not play as much? The MAU figures don't point to shifts as significant as the Cloud proportions do, and Microsoft's lack of raw subscriber numbers that they happily boasted about in 2021 is telling too.
The PlayStation Brahs:
"Playstation Now will soon cease as exist as it combines with PlayStation Plus to be one super subscription, titles that won't carryover to the PlayStation Plus revamp will begin to leave the service in May."
Wait, what? I thought PS+ premium would carry over the games from PSNow?
Also this basically leaves MGS4 dead in the boneyard unless you play via RPCS3…
It's actually a lot of games that will leave at the same time.
Probably to leave some space for the PSP games that are gonna be added to the premium service.
As for MGS4, I would expect Konami to be behind the move.
Ah, yes. Bask in the "service" era. Where what you see today, is not what you'll see tomorrow, thanks to an overcomplicated system.
The "service", is simply, off the charts.
So when games leave PS Now, it's a huge issue but when games leave GamePass it's just fine? All subscription services have games / movies leave all the time.
Get PS Plus Premium at half off the price by subscribing to PS Now for 12 months! Sony has pulled the annual offer on PSN, but here are live links offering it for US and UK.
Umm ever consider it will probably just give you the basic ps plus for one year and you will need to upgrade to get the premium one?
They could give it to us for a dollar to get those numbers up before it launches.
Just kidding.
Don't let the link open in the app, it doesn't work. Open it in a web browser and it will work
The link in the article goes to a page that says "Not available for purchase." When I click on the link from the Twitter post, it works though. https://twitter.com/Wario64...
Good idea. They just need to watch their pricing, the pricing model will determine the fate of PS Now. Adding discounts for PS+ members would be great aswell.
Adding discounts for PS+ members would be great, but the short term prices are too high currently. I just got my PS Now invite finally and was browsing through it yesterday. $4.99 - $5.99 for 24 hours is too steep a price. Are your save games stored locally so that if you had to rent for a second 24 hours you could continue where you left off?
Some of the older game prices are good as I saw games like Sonic CD for $4.99 for 90 days worth of playtime.
Having versions with all included DLC is a nice touch.
I still don't understand if the model for pricing is based around the idea that if you make the short term price high enough, people will opt for the longer term rental even if the price is even higher. Maybe they assume we will just go for the better value, not the better price. I don't know if I agree with that, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt for now and see what changes as we get closer to release.
Sony potentially has a good thing with PS Now, but they could easily sink the whole thing with bad pricing.
This is basically a demo for 5 bucks in my opinion. Its not a rental. Being able to play the game for 24 hours for 5 bucks is another way to sell you a demo. 5 bucks for 2 days would be much more reasonable. You sleep 8 hours a day (give or take) so inessence your getting 16 hours. Not to mention if your like me and dont like to play videogames the second you awake your getting less time. Even when blockbuster was at the end of its life you could pay learning ke 28 dollars a mnth or something to have unlimited rentals. I could go as much as i liked in one day and swap out the whole store if i wanted to. It was like having a whole store of product that you only payed around 28 dollars a month for.
Does this seem right? Paying extra for DLC despite the fact that the games have been released in the previous generation? I personally feel that SONY should only release the 'complete' versions for PS NOW at a fair price.