Playstation Now: Why doesnt Sony promote it more?

[GoldenGlove]

They are most likely not ready to make that commitment due to infrastructure (they do not have cloud servers just readily available, PSNOW is not even available in alot of countries due to this), risk aversion (they are not as big as MSFT, GOOGLE, AMZN so any risks that fails hurts them more.), Market leader (they have a profitable, winning formula and marketshare, probably want to milk it as long as they can) and long term viabiity (current and future profits from game streaming need to be able to justify the full commitment.)

I think well see PSNOW get more attention this gen but i can't blame them for being timid on giving up 70 dollars a pop on guaranteed 5-10 million sellers like GOW, TLOU, Horizon etc. Same way movie theaters are reluctant to put AAA movies on streaming, day one. At the same time, cant get complacent either and you have to look towards the future and what the competitors are doing. Its a delicate balance.

I think this is it.

But there could be more to it. They pushed PSVue and you used to see ads for it, but it failed even tho the quality of the service was great. I don't think they're confident in the quality for PSNow for them to go all in with it like their competitors. Subscription based models in game is the direction their competitors are going. We might look up one day, and those same competitors might be bidding on copping Playstation from Sony.



Apple is gonna make a move eventually as well.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Probably having a hard time finding a proper way to market it amongst all the other acronymed services. PSN, PS Plus, PS Now and now PS Plus Collection. They need to dead all that shyt and offer everything in a single service like MS has.

Yeah. Simple solution, PSN+Now. Charge 80-90 a year and there you go. I've been saying this for like at least a year or two myself.

 

[Dwight Howard]

When you develop the quality of games sony does, this business model isnt sustainable. They arent funding 8-9 figure budgets just to give it away.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I think this is it.

But there could be more to it. They pushed PSVue and you used to see ads for it, but it failed even tho the quality of the service was great. I don't think they're confident in the quality for PSNow for them to go all in with it like their competitors. Subscription based models in game is the direction their competitors are going. We might look up one day, and those same competitors might be bidding on copping Playstation from Sony.



Apple is gonna make a move eventually as well.

If anything, they should just partner up with someone that has the funds. Don't need to sell the company to be bed partners.

 

[CodeKansas]

They don't need to.

 

[GreenGrass]

Probably having a hard time finding a proper way to market it amongst all the other acronymed services. PSN, PS Plus, PS Now and now PS Plus Collection. They need to dead all that shyt and offer everything in a single service like MS has.

This shyt is so confusing. You are right, they need to combine everything into one service. the PS5 i pre ordered will be interesting and i may just buy a game or two through the PSN. Don't know what is the best way to save money as of yet.

 

[GoldenGlove]

If anything, they should just partner up with someone that has the funds. Don't need to sell the company to be bed partners.

A partnership with who tho?

Sony is trying to sell consoles and games, people having access to their catalog without owning a Playstation is counterproductive to what their objective is. The other companies have a different approach

 

[ItWasWritten]

You know what's funny ?

Dude tried em all and linked Sony's the best

 

[Jim Cornette]

Not even available in Australia...

Wtf am I living in a 3rd would country or somethin

 

[Microfracture]

They should just throw up a tweet listing the most popular games available on the service from each gen. Would go a long way. shyt maybe they already did and I just haven't seen it

 

[Jchr is]

It's been downplayed for forever because it launched pretty mid. As long as you are ethernet connected or have a good connection the PS3 and PS2 libraries are ok but lack a lot of the stuff that would make it super compelling. Although the releases they've had you can download have been really great recently both on the big names and indies side.

 

[AAKing23]

it needs a bigger library and needs to be bundled with ps plus.

This.

I can't convince myself even as big a gamer as I am that I should pay for PS now as it's currently offered.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Because the investment to get it really going is high.

Look at the companies taking a stab at cloud gaming.

Google
Amazon
Microsoft.



Sony is not in that tier. So to really get it off they would have to go to one of them for support or really develop something in house or with another cloud company... And I'm not sure who else you go to for the level of support theyd need.



In a nutshell Sony would lose money on something that they probably can get by another gen without doing much more than they have.


Now next gen, I expect the ps6 to be back company and have a gamepass service much like Microsoft's.

But going all in now... Nah they waited to long.

But this could be another Sony/Nintendo type situation but this time it's Sony that wants to stick with something instead of moving with the times

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

A partnership with who tho?

Sony is trying to sell consoles and games, people having access to their catalog without owning a Playstation is counterproductive to what their objective is. The other companies have a different approach

You say that, but PSNow has been available on other devices as well just the same tho, from the beginning I believe.

And I'm not sure whom they would partnership with, but I don't think it's something that's just impossible.

 

[Fatboi1]

I feel like they could easily bolster PS Now's library by leaning on older games from past generations.

Add more PS1~PS3 titles along with PSP and PS Vita titles. Think PS TV but through streaming for PC, Android and IOS. Add a 1080P streaming option and create an emulator for PS5 so PS1~PS3 games can be played locally and bundle all of this with PS+ for an additional 5~7 bucks a month. I don't know why PS Now is not on Android yet.

They can differentiate themselves from the competition because all of them are vying for the same games but Sony can use their older IP's and library to boost the game count.

Scrap the PS classic crap and just throw all of those games on PS Now. I think this way they can get more subscribers without committing to putting their AAA games on the service day 1.