I should probably also mention that I think they should drop the entire idea of paying for multiplayer inside of PS Plus.
But, apparently, ya'll are more likely to accept paying to play with your friends than paying to actually have great games on a regular basis to have access to. Weird to me.
My main point was PS Now currently has no value as a PlayStation service unless you really enjoy PlayStation 3 games. There are 200+ PS4 games on PS Now right now and 25 of them are published by Sony. That's not even 20% of the games currently on offer for this generation are made or paid to be made by the people whose name brand the service.
If they want people to pay for it, they have to start making it happen themselves as well. I think giving away the pretense that their games will NOT hit the service is better than essentially making people wait a month. If digital makes up as much of sales as people say these days, then you're literally providing an even better experience to those users over those who prefer not to subscribe.
Hell, Sony started experimenting with 10% off on games with PS Plus when pre-ordered like they were competing with Amazon. I don't think anyone should leave a stone unturned on this kind of thing. It could fail spectacularly or you could let people who just bought a PlayStation for the first time literally have an entire library of PlayStation that increases the value of the brand instead of just these individual experiences.
Not without changing the kinds of games they make.
Prepare to say goodbye to primarily single player super expensive games.
PlayStation already makes ongoing games alongside their big super expensive single player games. Uncharted Multiplayer, MLB The Show, Gran Turismo Sport, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams (release TBA), DriveClub (was meant to be), Helldivers, Resogun, Killzone, Street Fighter V, etc. What are we even talking about right now.
They made all of those and still published the entire 2018 lineup which was mostly devoid of many ongoing games. They've even tried other games like Drawn to Death that failed.
Sony is going to try to hit it out of the park with some kind of ongoing games regardless of whether they make games hit PS Now or not. I would agree that if they wanted to start somewhere, I would put Gran Turismo Sport on PlayStation Now with a quickness.
I can see maybe six months after release at the earliest in regards to Sony putting their exclusives on PS Now but no way in hell day one. No reason for Sony to do so. Sony's IP's are extremely valuable with only Nintendo's IP's being more valuable in this industry where as Microsoft's IP's outside of the big three, not so much.
Plus, look at 2018 - Microsoft released Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Forza Horizon 4 on Game Pass day one. Sony would have released God of War, Detroit: Become Human and Spider Man.
Even including FH4, it's a total and complete thrashing. Thus, no reason to do what Microsoft is doing.
As for those IP's in development, The Order: 1887 baby!!!!! Believe!!!! :)
This post also kinda proves my point. That's 3 games in 2018 he named. Sony published more than that in 2018 and you don't even acknowledge them because they're not sales bangers, but they're quality titles.
Tetris Effect, Shadow of the Colossus, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, Moss, etc. Some of these are VR games and yes, I would just put those on there too.
As I always say, it is fine for the Big 3 to go different routes without devaluing each other. MS is going the Game Pass route because the traditional release route isn't working for them. If it proves to be successful for MS, that doesn't take away from the traditional route Sony and Nintendo have. I mean, Sony released 2 record breaking exclusives in the same year. That speaks for itself.
They all just need to find what works for them. Not run to what is working for another of the Big 3 the moment something new catches on.
What are you talking about? PlayStation is the one that started the idea of streaming all of your games across devices through a unified service of PlayStation Now. They also abandoned the concept and the idea pretty quickly.
They've had 4 exclusive titles be extremely successful in the past 3 years. I'm just saying, they could leverage a huge PSN userbase to make the other games they've released still reach that massive base of players and monetize doing so.
They're already trying to do it on the cheap and every complaint about the service is barely any PlayStation games exist on it from this gen and that's not jsut Xbox people trolling about it.
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