Swift_Star
Banned
Yes. And for indies, like MS does. Why not?
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All-new PlayStation Plus launches in June with three flexible membership options
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This is an excellent low-effort rebranding and structuring of SONY services. I'm not getting anything beyond the base membership for MP, but the higher end options are pretty attractive price wise. Perhaps not a decade or so ago (I forget when PS Now came out), but streaming prices and premium add-ons continue to increase to the point where 18 bucks is a "good deal."
I mean. . .they aren't wrong. What is in the tweet is LITERALLY what has been spoiled all across this forum for months now.
I mean. . .they aren't wrong. What is in the tweet is LITERALLY what has been spoiled all across this forum for months now.
Yoboman
Member
digoutyoursoul
Member
Yes I meant PSP and PS1 games, apologies.
Mephisto40
Member
So my next question is, if you can download the ps1 and ps2 games and play them on your ps5, what exactly is stopping them pushing an update that allows you to play games from these systems from the original discs natively?
Craig of War
Banned
Exclusive are 1 thing wile paying for day 1 on subscriptions service is another
Sleepwalker
Member
I think a discount on day and date releases for subscribers of the expensive tier wouldve been nice. Say $40-$50 instead of $70.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Money.
Edit: Actually, I'm pretty sure the PS5 is technically incapable of reading CDs (it doesn't have the laser for it), same as PS4. DVDs it can read though. But that rules out PS1 and quite a few PS2 games.
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
"No day one games!"
Are you people fucking high? Miles Morales had sold 6.5 million copies by Feb '21 and went on to be the 6th best selling game of the year (edit: in the US). By contrast, the best selling Xbox One exclusive ever was Halo 5 at an estimated 6.6 life time.
Sony doing day one releases would be almost as retarded as Nintendo doing it. There's a reason it's Microsoft's strategy alone, and it's a good strategy, but only for them.
Are you people fucking high? Miles Morales had sold 6.5 million copies by Feb '21 and went on to be the 6th best selling game of the year (edit: in the US). By contrast, the best selling Xbox One exclusive ever was Halo 5 at an estimated 6.6 life time.
Sony doing day one releases would be almost as retarded as Nintendo doing it. There's a reason it's Microsoft's strategy alone, and it's a good strategy, but only for them.
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Craig of War
Banned
I have to see it to believe it exclusive to console and exclusive to a subscriptions service is another thing
DonJorginho
Banned
It's expensive for what it is and more expensive than Gamepass.
Pay it monthly and you're looking at a damn straight rip off.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Because this is a completely different form of backwards compatability
shoplifter
Member
Passive income
Ogbert
Member
Sure, of course.
I wasn’t expecting anything too significant today.
I just think Sony games cost too much. As I say, I fully understand the financial reality of developing AAA software, but this contrast with Gamepass is going to grow ever more apparent. I think there’s only so much mileage Sony will get out of their model.
Perhaps their idea will be to heavily discount after a few weeks.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They would rather resell the games to you than let you use the discs.
SakkanartSilentJealousy
Member
+$40 per year for Extra is fine for me. Count me in.
Craig of War
Banned
They already paid for console exclusive with that though bad example
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Day one on a sub is what i'm talking about. They've done it for PS+ and PSNow
Schmick
Member
Yes, but its streaming only. I use it as my as a way to play PS games as I don't have a PlayStation. Its worked very well for me.
However, I don't see how the service for PC is affected by this. I pay £8.99 a month for it. If I now need to subscribe to PlayStation Plus Premium at £13.49 just to continue what I'm doing then I'll be pissed.
schaft0620
Member
At 340 PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP games that is only a little over 2% of the library. The odds that the service will have the specific game you are looking for is very low.
Topher
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A bit early to make judgements on these additional tiers without seeing a list of available games. I'm glad the "essential" tier is there without a price hike. Making PS Now an add on to PS+ makes more sense, but I think it would have been better to just have one additional tier at $99 that included streaming.
Overall, nothing really to get excited about, but nothing controversial either.
Overall, nothing really to get excited about, but nothing controversial either.
balls of snow
Member
Going to need to see that list of ps4/ps5 games jimbo before i upgrade. You have 1500 games available on your platform, mix up the selection please. I want to see Gravity Rush 2 and fucking Cloudpunk on your service. Dont be mediocre please.
ethomaz
Banned
Are you really sure?
The fact the only emulator on PC can't run the most demanding games even with the best hardware available tells you a lot.
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Craig of War
Banned
MS is so much richer then Sony that why they can do the things they do like 70 billion purchased wile Sony not so much
ManaByte
Banned
It’s $60 for PS Now and $60 for PS Plus.
CeeJay
Member
No idea but you are the one who said that it was easy to guess the exact 3 tier structure, the exact naming and also get the features and pricing near enough spot on so don't try and turn the tables on me for calling you out on it. Just face it, Grubb had inside knowledge of it.
darkangel-212559
Banned
Not according to Jim!
shoplifter
Member
They've done that already too, on PS3/PSP/Vita. Now they're wanting you to pay a recurring fee to be able to play them (maybe, if the games you already purchased are included). It's particularly galling at this point, considering that we now know there are no technical reasons they couldn't just give us access to the PS1/PS2/PSP titles we've already bought.
Swift_Star
Banned
So? That doesn't mean they can't pay for some third party day one games in their service.
graywolf323
Member
what I want to know is the upgrade path for existing PS+ subs and if PSNow is getting converted to the highest tier, what happens if you have both PS+ and Now already but the PS+ sub is good for longer?
Craig of War
Banned
That was a quote from Jim Ryan himself lol
TrebleShot
Member
From the Game Industry article.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...d-suffer-if-we-put-them-straight-into-ps-plus
II_JumPeR_I
Member
Pretty bad
Gravity Rush 1 (Remastered) and Gravity Rush 2 are both available for streaming and downloading on PSNow and have been for quite some time.
ethomaz
Banned
Except... Sony doesn't put 3rd party games day one on Plus unless it is some indie they are helping or promoting.
You heard it here first fromSwift_Star , if you aren't in 100% lockstep with Sony business decisions you are a troll.
And there are a lot of trolls in the PS userbase whenever those PC releases get announced.
Dude, I'd probably be a weird obsessive loser if I'd lost my 30 year old virginity to a third hand fleshlight.
No need to antagonize the lad.
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
It's only cheaper than Game Pass when you use $1 trials, Gold conversion, CDKeys, Brazilian VPN loopholes etc.
People should remember that MOST people are just going to be paying $15/m for Game Pass with Gold which as far as I can see has no annual option. PS+ Extra Annual at 2/3 of that cost with no day one games isn't bad value at all assuming you've not actually played most of the games on offer.
Shit, even $120/y is less for the added 340 legacy titles if that's your jam.
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graywolf323
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Straight out of jimbo's mouth.
"Why would anybody play this?" says Sony's Jim Ryan about backwards compatibility
Backwards compatibility support on PlayStation 4 is a feature many want, but only a few will actually use, according to…
www.vg247.com
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
He got the features and prices wrong. Literally just got a good guess on the tier names, which come on, essential, extra and premium? Fucking yes that's a piss easy to guess structure.
He piggy backed off the Bloomberg article. He had no inside information here. Now hush little puppy
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
PS5 is literally not capable of reading CDs. DVDs it can read though, but yeah.
Shifty1897
Member
PS3 streaming was always gonna happen.
I am surprised about the PSP, PS1, AND PS2 available for download quote. That makes it sounds like those are getting emulated. Unfortunately paying $120 a year for temporary access to games I've already bought, some multiple times, is kind of insulting. IMO this should be rolled into the second tier, there is no need for three tiers.
I am surprised about the PSP, PS1, AND PS2 available for download quote. That makes it sounds like those are getting emulated. Unfortunately paying $120 a year for temporary access to games I've already bought, some multiple times, is kind of insulting. IMO this should be rolled into the second tier, there is no need for three tiers.