“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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SzaPosted:

Hope they don't fail im just go take this game right back to gamestop

EthicsPosted:

Ayr
Pint This is a very bad idea in my opinion, Sony don't need MORE money.


You, sir, know nothing about business.


well said:L but i can see where he is coming from

Third_EyePosted:

There's reasoning behind what he said but people also wanna play their old PS games.

FijiPosted:

Dnt agree with this one it's a great think for us veteran players wanting old games

TRSNPosted:

Dong I think they should bring back Crash Bandicoot and Twisted Metal.


Buy a Playstation 1, hehe.

-CPPosted:

I think it has quite the potential, and I cannot wait to use it.

LatiasPosted:

I don't think the plan was to ever stream new games. It was to be able to stream PS3 games (PSx and PS2 later) to a vita/PS4. This was never meant to work for new games.

SwiftPosted:

I sure hope this is not a failure, this would be one of the reasons I buy the console. Damn.

TrueHardcoreGamerPosted:

NikolaiLoverG935
BBX It's going to be games like the games for gold program you can tell, all old and boring, although it will work in some way. Guaranteed I'll be called upon but it's truth.


Yes but isn't PS Now for PS1, 2 and 3 games on PS4? At least Games for Gold gave you Xbox 360 games, not crappy Xbox Original games.


Thats true the Cloud gaming will be awsome there just hatters

DongPosted:

I think they should bring back Crash Bandicoot and Twisted Metal.


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