“PlayStation Now is a joke,” says Pachter

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PS Now has been branded “a joke” by Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter.

It follows leaked footage Sony’s PS3 cloud-streaming beta, which showed a user loading up PS Now and playing Killzone 3 over the cloud.

Speaking with Game Informer, Pachter said of PS Now, “PlayStation Now is a joke. There is no publisher that is going to license content that’s less than two-years old because they would be concerned that they can’t sell as many copies if they make it available for subscription or rental.

“This has no prayer of working. None.”

Pachter’s rationale is that publishers will not license their game for monthly streaming as it will dent their ‘per-unit’ sales, along the same lines as bands on Spotify.

What do you make of Pachter’s reaction?



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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/05/playstation-now-is-a-joke-says-pachter/

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T0RONTOPosted:

I think this is good for PS1 & PS2 games only

DohPosted:

Wait what?

1. I don't see the point in that whatsoever.
2. Correct, they will not make the slightest profit.
3. Why would they even consider it?

FibrilPosted:

For PS3 games going on PS Now sure but not PS1/PS2 games. No one has those consoles anymore to make profits from

darkxbl13Posted:

This is why the ppl who sold they're ps3 are dumb as for old games just keep releasing ps1/ps2 games via classics

TRSNPosted:

GILF I think this would be great to play older games but the newer ones wont allow Sony to put them on this because it will vastly decrease their sales


Some older games > newer. When it comes to replay value and story lines developers used to be so much more creative.

IamRCAPosted:

Dorkus I honestly don't think it's a joke, it looks like a good idea they're coming up with.


the reason its a joke is because they know it wont work very well.

KurumuPosted:

OmeNModder isn't PSNow mean't to play older games and not newer games? why would this effect sales of new games?

anyone feel like explaining, please do so, i'm loI think that with this software you would have to re-buy the old games you once owned, and companies don't want to work on games that have already made loads of sales just to try and make more and maybe loose money. This is just what I thought it meant.

GILFPosted:

I think this would be great to play older games but the newer ones wont allow Sony to put them on this because it will vastly decrease their sales

SIKSPosted:

I honestly don't think it's a joke, it looks like a good idea they're coming up with.

OmeNModderPosted:

isn't PSNow mean't to play older games and not newer games? why would this effect sales of new games?

anyone feel like explaining, please do so, i'm lost.


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