The Playstation Now open beta started yesterday. A weird concept, because you have to pay to use it. So it’s less of a beta and more of a product you can buy that the company makes absolutely no assurances will work — Steam early access, anyone?
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...
Fix it sony, fix it! Ò_Ó
I don't understand why Sony hasn't put at least one of their games up to play for free. This is something new, let us give it a try before you charge us.
It wouldn't cost them anything to put Uncharted 1 up for a free test and it just might make people believers in game streaming. As it stands now it is just that expensive service we've never tried and probably won't ever if the pricing stands.
Yes, they know. Just keep tweeting them to let them know how you feel. Can't wait for the subscription details.
Speculation from review:
Whine, Complain but then states "Because this is a “beta,” we don’t assume that any of these price points are permanent"
Fact from Sony Email:
These PRICES are ultimately decided on by the PARTICIPATING DEVELOPERS and PUBLISHERS. Your FEEDBACK during this next phase of the Beta is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, as we will be monitoring it closely.
Solution:
Email us at [email protected] om and help SHAPE the future of PLAYSTATION NOW.
*** I apologize for the caps but those are the important points that keep being overlooked***
The price model will change. Why?
Because nobody is gonna rent MGS4 for 30 days for $5.99 when they can buy it for $5
The pricing is horrendous and it will be a massive failure if they decide not to listen to practically everyone that looks at it. Sony can't be that stupid to proceed with PSNow in an era where unlimited access on a subscription model is how digital content works (see massive success of Netflix)