- over 40% growth annually
PS Now was released in a few Sonyland countries like Spain last March 15th. I think a big portion of the growth may come from there. Considering the free week period, I'm pretty sure we'll see a notable growth this current quarter. They also need to release it in more countries, they are only in a few ones.
Google Stadia will surpass 700k subs easily lol stating anything to the contrary is just laughable.
It depends on the performance, the business model and the games.
PS Now already has a catalog with games like Uncharted series, Bloodborne, God of War series, Fumito Ueda games and so on. Google will need to do something to compete. Console only and PS exclusives won't be on Stadia, and depending on the Stadia business model devs won't support it. Players will want a ton of great games or won't pay for it. And if like many Google services is free with ads or something like that console devs won't support it and will only receive mobile F2P games.
That's very low.
Well at least we can stop using that image from superdata now lmao.
Why if it's true?
If and when they decide to throw their full weight behind it (in the way that Microsoft has been doing for Game Pass) it'll no doubt be a major player.
The gamepass idea of putting there day one new AAA games in a subscription platorm that costs you $1/month is a complete suicide. MS only does that as a desperate move because they have a very small market share when selling consoles and games so they are trying to get more players and see if they can get a good market share in some secondary market like that.
Sony doesn't need to do that move. They just announced that PS4 is the best selling console ever at its lifecycle point when launch aligned and that this fiscal year they sold more PS4 games than any other console in a fiscal year. Sony prints money selling their games at $60, which is a better business than to give away them from basically free while paying servers.
To have a game subscription platform with optional streaming with decent pricing for them is a good idea specially for old games that don't generate money anymore in the normal stores to avoid needing HDD space, install and update times. Specially if it's available on PC, phones and tablets too. But wifi and 4G are crap for streaming, so phones and tablets will have to wait until at least 5G (we'll see real world performance there, right now we only have theorical and limited tests 5G numbers).
