streaming is a massive loss leader. Netflix was not profitable for over a decade. and even now their profits are pointing to them doing another price hike soon. This is why i dont like any of these streaming options long term. I can still buy used games for cheap if i want, own them and i dont get screwed if a game leaves the service.
No it had more to do with those platforms reaching their end of life cycle. Samsung Tizen OS which is on 5.0 now and Android TV which is on 11 now where not robust platforms as they are now for developers. They dropped the service for even their own older platforms as well and the service has improved for it since they focused on PC and PS4. Now with how much better mobile platforms are, they will expand like they wanted to from the start.
You can also play them coop. Me and my missus did that with one PS Now account. My console, my PS Now. She logged on her second account(which has no plus or now) and started up Red Dead Redemption via Now and I stream it on my laptop. Lets both of us play at the same time with each other.
Correct, there is no guarantee a game will make it to PS Now, they also quite often are only available for a month or two with newer or 3rd party titles.
PS Now advertising is basically non-existent. It really says a lot that after all this time tons of people still think it's solely a streaming service even though you've been able to download PS4 games on PS4 for 2 years now.
I've been playing the Sly games on it recently without any noticeable lag. Was shocked.
That's part of the problem, but you can tell there's a clear difference in appeal between Game Pass and PlayStation Now when Jim Ryan says that they're not doing the Game Pass thing. Even he knows that PlayStation Now can't compete with Game Pass, because Game Pass is all about making people feel included from day one with a simple subscription, while Sony clearly treats its own loyal customers as second-class citizens by not giving them access to their new first-party games as readily as Microsoft does on Game Pass.
Honestly I think its more they don't want to compete with GamePass than they can't. I mean...the answer is as simple as everyone has stated thousands of times. PS Now would have a ton of subs if they started putting first party day one. I would argue it would eclipse GamePass in a matter of months quite honestly.
Understatement of the year, maybe even decade considering how long Now has been out.
I think MS has a thing every month highlighting game pass additions and I think it's just as sparse?
I think they want the service to be complimentary. I guess it does make sense for them to make it just a tier of PS+ vs just separated and rename it to the PSCloud or something
You have to transfer the save between them, vs a unified save
Oh, yikes. Only 9 games from the past two years? Only 1 game from 2020?
Newer games rotate in and out. Control was on there a few months back.
Gonna need a source on that because just like Netflix, I'm prrrrretty sure its a loss leader. Revenue is not profit.
