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Bloomberg: Sony to reveal Spartacus next week
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Elginer
Member
Same bring back Warhawk
ToadMan
Member
They’re not demos - they’re access to the full game for a time limited period like Cyberpunk just had. 5 hours was decent enough and I bought it (again) after getting that far with it on PS5.
According to GP subscribers, they buy good games they got to try out even though they’re on GP, so this is the same right? Right….?
Anyway let’s see.
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ToTTenTranz
Banned
Takachi Mochisuki?
Isn't this the guy who promised us a Switch Pro for late 2020 / early 2021?
Isn't this the guy who promised us a Switch Pro for late 2020 / early 2021?
Really interested to see what they've got lined up. I doubt it will reverse some of their questionable anti-consumer practices, but we shall see.
. . .you can do that now.
. . .you can do that now.
Markio128
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John Wick
Member
I think it will have games like gamepass but not the very latest ones. Probably 6-12 months old and later.
The media keeps doing to it for clicks which only helps confuse the consumer even further. Sony just wants to retain their PS Plus subscribers, get a few extra dollars out of them, and incentivize those that have a PlayStation (4 or 5) to finally sign up for a subscription. Time and time again they keep saying it won't be a 1:1 equivalent on top of always quoting it won't be like Gamepass, yet it seems to be the only term they know. Same with streaming services and Netflix. Everything new in streaming is trying to be the Netflix of XYZ.
rickybooby87
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
The media has an addiction to saying GamePass. It's nasty.
Mr Moose
Member
I don't give a shit about PS Now.
Prices for normal PS+ better not increase, though wouldn't mind some anime stuff.
www.playstation.com
Prices for normal PS+ better not increase, though wouldn't mind some anime stuff.
Oh, Takashi Mochizuki is always full of shit.
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Chukhopops
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Demos, streaming and games « from recent years » for up to $16 a month?
Im gonna go with doubt because it’s Schreier and Bloomberg but if true I doubt this will break the meta.
Im gonna go with doubt because it’s Schreier and Bloomberg but if true I doubt this will break the meta.
I agree with most of that (including the motivations about increasing the ARPU and attach rate) and still believe that naturally consumers will compare it to Gamepass and Netflix, they don't have to be mutually exclusive reasons.
Makes sense, I think the PS4/5 firmware updates this week were a pre-requisite. Now they're out it's ready to go.
Btw forget any possibility of full PS1-PS2 libraries, if there are legacy games at all it will mostly be the same old titles that we've seen before. The licensing/distribution issues with many of those old games haven't gone away.
Btw forget any possibility of full PS1-PS2 libraries, if there are legacy games at all it will mostly be the same old titles that we've seen before. The licensing/distribution issues with many of those old games haven't gone away.
just bought PS Now for my PC because I assume I am going to get bumped to the highest tier.
Do you mean for native games?
kyliethicc
Member
And it'll be called......
PlayStation Plus
it's also the end of the Q next week friday.
Yeah, people forget the issue about licensing alot.
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Jigsaah
Gold Member
Oh so this is gonna be an extension of PS NOW? Was not aware of that. I thought it was gonna be something brand new.
I guess my hope is that they come out with something similar to what Xbox has. Most of the games available on Xbox Game Pass are also available on PC Gamepass. I'm not really expecting day and date releases, but more PC ports would be awesome.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
Streaming?!
People seriously don't understand how great streaming can be until you see a game listed that you wanted to try out and you can begin playing it instantly without having to download it.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeah but this is only streaming, I can see why people are frustrated with that.
hemo memo
Gold Member
Nah they are greedy and they’ll put everyone on lowest or midtier with a cheap upgrade with current subscription. They’ll not converte everyone to the highest tier. Best hope is midtier.
T-Cake
Member
Indeed, Google Stadia saved me from the horror of Far Cry 6 last night. Didn't like it at all so glad I didn't download all 80-odd GB from Ubisoft.
Its a bit weird but it seems like PS Now is a part of the highest tier so if i was someone without either, I would tell them to just get PS Now because it makes sense that they match you to the service with the same features so effectively you would be get PS+ free.
I don't expect Spartacus to cover PC games sadly but could be wrong on this, that would be pretty good though imo.
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Arenafighter
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Paying for Demos in Tier 3
kyliethicc
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BTW
www.playstationlifestyle.net
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PS5 Firmware Update Beta Includes Unannounced Changes
Sony has released the full changelog for February 2022's PS4 and PS5 firmware update beta, revealing unannounced changes.
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Placed before PS Store and Explore page
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hemo memo
Gold Member
And? It is ok. I can live waiting 20 minutes for things to download knowing that it’ll not be effected if my internet is acting up or goes down.
Swift_Star
Banned
Was? They still are. first place in revenue and biggest marketshare.
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T-Cake
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Swift_Star
Banned
Yeah, people love input lag, right?
ManaByte
Gold Member
It doesn't really matter if it's a game you just want to try out. You can always download it then if you want to seriously play it.
reinking
Gold Member
Leader as in not a follower. Not dollars and cents. They should not be chasing Game Pass.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I haven’t tried Ps Now in a very long time but I played DMC5 from amazon prime in my browser just to see how it was and I was pretty impressed. I wouldn’t wanna play a whole game like that but as you said it’s pretty cool just to mess around with and demo a game.
yurinka
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As always, Bloomberg trying to make everything related to Sony as bad as possible: "but Sony lags behind Microsoft’s efforts in the streaming market."
How do they know that if Microsoft never mentioned the amount of subscribers that use xCloud, and not even how many GPU subs do they have? Right now there is no way to know if xCloud is more popular than PS Now because MS never shared their numbers.
Both PS Now and xCloud are limited to around 2 or 3 dozen countries (a few more in the case of MS).
Cloud gaming needs the player to be close to the servers, meaning that they must put a shit ton of servers around the globe in the covered countries or close to them to have a decent input lag. In addittion to this, each server serves way less players at the same time than video streaming, webs or multiplayer game servers meaning that server costs are way more expensive for cloud gaming than for other services.
For this reason Sony and Microsoft -and the other cloud gaming services- are only limited to certain countries, they focus on these a handful dozen countries who cover 80% of their gaming revenue.
I think the Spartacus top (PS Now/Cloud gaming) tier will continue being limited to these countries (maybe they add a handful more) but that the other two tiers will be available worldwide.
One would be the normal PS Plus tier that already is available worldwide, and the other one would be the equivalent to base GamePass tier, meaning that -available worldwide- it would include the hundreds of downloadable games of PS Now but wouldn't include its cloud gaming.
PS Now/Spartacus and Gamepass feature many hundreds of games of modern and old platforms that can be played on multiple platforms, via cloud gaming or game download. Nintendo Online don't.
How do they know that if Microsoft never mentioned the amount of subscribers that use xCloud, and not even how many GPU subs do they have? Right now there is no way to know if xCloud is more popular than PS Now because MS never shared their numbers.
Both PS Now and xCloud are limited to around 2 or 3 dozen countries (a few more in the case of MS).
Cloud gaming needs the player to be close to the servers, meaning that they must put a shit ton of servers around the globe in the covered countries or close to them to have a decent input lag. In addittion to this, each server serves way less players at the same time than video streaming, webs or multiplayer game servers meaning that server costs are way more expensive for cloud gaming than for other services.
For this reason Sony and Microsoft -and the other cloud gaming services- are only limited to certain countries, they focus on these a handful dozen countries who cover 80% of their gaming revenue.
I think the Spartacus top (PS Now/Cloud gaming) tier will continue being limited to these countries (maybe they add a handful more) but that the other two tiers will be available worldwide.
One would be the normal PS Plus tier that already is available worldwide, and the other one would be the equivalent to base GamePass tier, meaning that -available worldwide- it would include the hundreds of downloadable games of PS Now but wouldn't include its cloud gaming.
Because Game Pass and xCloud was Microsoft's answer to PS Now and its long term plans Sony announced back in 2014 on their PS Now reveal.
PS Now/Spartacus and Gamepass feature many hundreds of games of modern and old platforms that can be played on multiple platforms, via cloud gaming or game download. Nintendo Online don't.
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Perrott
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Well, the highest tier would also include access to a catalogue of allegedly 100 classic PS1 games, with PS2, PSP and PS3 catalogues arriving later on.
Well game trials already were/are a thing (although not well utilized) in PS+