PlayStation Now - Hands on with IGN. (look at those prices)

Metalface Mark said:
In no way is it the sweet spot.

I was hoping they would do it like netflix, you pay a tenner a month and you have the entire library at your disposal, Id sign up to something like that, no interest in paying to hire a game for a few hours or a week at a higher price than you could rent the latest game from blockbuster for a week before it went under.
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You'd expect a tenner a month for everything? LOL, no chance. You can't even begin to compare Netflix -> PS NOW
 
MrMoonX said:
Nostalgia is overrated :cool:
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Not really especially if the nostalgia is days old as I'm still playing older games to this day. I just don't understand this mentality that the previous gen is discarded when a new one comes out. Its a throwaway comment...
Captain Planet said:
You'd expect a tenner a month for everything? LOL, no chance. You can't even begin to compare Netflix -> PS NOW
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Sony need to come up with better pricing structure IMO - investigating ideas like subscription pricing by generation or year of release while newer games are individual rentals would be more interesting

EDIT: Even something like the Sky/VM packs where its a sub by genre could be of interest - I'd love to sub to say all driving games...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I often go back and play Res evil 2 & MGS. I was hoping PS1/2 would be a subscription similar to Netflix, but obviously it won't be as cheap.
 
ps3ud0 said:
Not really especially if the nostalgia is days old as I'm still playing older games to this day. I just don't understand this mentality that the previous gen is discarded when a new one comes out. Its a throwaway comment...

Sony need to come up with better pricing structure IMO - investigating ideas like subscription pricing by generation or year of release while newer games are individual rentals would be more interesting

ps3ud0 :cool:
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maybe something like £10 a month, access to everything but only allowed to download and play maybe 3 games a month will work for me.
 
I don't really think they want to offer a renting service like that if they can make more money off just selling the games at ridiculous prices (£65 watch dogs).

Also all the developers would need to agree to this (many won't).

Renting a catalogue of games IMO will never happen unless it's all Sony first party games or something like that.

The only chance you have is for old games like all games older than 4 years but again all the developers/publishers would need to agree.

Then all the different publishers and developers would want a cut. Sony would want a cut too. Pushing the price up.

It's a good idea but the whole industry would be against it IMO.
 
To me the benefits off this are PS4 remote play (moving house shortly so will have a games room and would like to be able to play in the living room too) - netflix hopefully at some point, sky go too would be nice and being able to play vita games on a big screen is a plus.

Its worth buying for these, im sure they will offer deals and such like, who knows, maybe the costs are placeholders just now, one thing is for sure, demand will drive the cost, if no one pays the prices they have invested a lot and it costs nothing to drop it by half and potentially you could see it flourish then.
 
Netflix - subscribed to by over 50million users and heavily supported by the media industry with a huge catalogue = £10 sub.
PS NOW - being anything like the above - no :)
 
Psycho Sonny thinks that a netflix type subscription would be non profitable - if Netflix have 50m subscribers then it would undoubtedly be a winner, if you could get 5m people paying a tenner a month it would no doubt earn more than what they are charging for games.
 
Metalface Mark said:
Psycho Sonny thinks that a netflix type subscription would be non profitable - if Netflix have 50m subscribers then it would undoubtedly be a winner, if you could get 5m people paying a tenner a month it would no doubt earn more than what they are charging for games.
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I never said that i said they could make a lot more selling the games than renting them at that price, so they wouldn't agree to it.

If it's £10 a month for an old catalogue (games older than 4 years) then I could see some developers and publishers agreeing to that model.

£10 a month for access to all the new games would be madness, a single new game costs up to £65 to buy on the PSN market.

Put it this way how much money does fifa, GTA, COD, BF4, gran turismo, etc generate with every new release?

GTA made billions. Your proposal is only viable on very old games.
 
The only way £10 a month would cut it is if the rest of it was subsidised heavily by live in-game advertising. I think in the future there will be live billboards in game which update via internet. One of the things which dictate how much ad-revenue a subscription based model can make is the number of subscribers themselves. Using subscriber figures to generate income from in-game advertising is the quite simply the next evolutionary step in most subscription based business models.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I never said that i said they could make a lot more selling the games than renting them at that price, so they wouldn't agree to it.

If it's £10 a month for an old catalogue (games older than 4 years) then I could see some developers and publishers agreeing to that model.

£10 a month for access to all the new games would be madness, a single new game costs up to £65 to buy on the PSN market.

Put it this way how much money does fifa, GTA, COD, BF4, gran turismo, etc generate with every new release?

GTA made billions. Your proposal is only viable on very old games.
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ITs all gonna be old games though isnt it, its ps1, ps2 and ps3 - not new ps4 stuff. I think it makes sense.
 
anticonscience said:
Driveclub.

GT series is a has been. An archaic relic of days gone by.
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Drive Club looks like a completely different style of game, and I'm not sure how you can say it's better than the GT series when it isn't even out yet. Unless I've missed some epic sarcasm or an inside joke.
 
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