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Last year Sony mentioned on an investor relations meeting some next gen long term plans for PS Now.
In addition to support '1080p and beyond resolutions', 'improve quality of contents', 'leverage existing capacity', and 'strengthen marketing support', they planned to grow beyond the 5M subs. milestone via portable and static clients, new entitles models, next gen hardware and next gen games and evolved services.
One of the ideas was to include a third option to purchase games for streaming, as a 3rd option in addition to the typical retail copy or digital download copy. They mentioned that this idea was for people who don't have the console. I thought they were talking about selling PS4 or PS5 games to people with these consoles, but I see they also seem to do that to offer PS3 games via streaming to PS4 (and I assume) PS5 players too.
Maybe the idea is in addition to have the 800+ games on PS Now subscription, to allow people to buy only specific ones with a single payment (in a Stadia way) instead of being paying the fee and without being limited to that game being removed or not from the subscription. Who knows, maybe this allow someone without a PS4 or PS5 to buy a PS5 only game at launch to play it via streaming in any device supported by PS Now like PC, phones or if in the future they buy a PS console, in console.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-ir-playstation-now-cloud-game-streaming-no-console/
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/irday/pdf/2019/GNS_E.pdf
We saw that PS5 now has crazy PSN download speeds, unlike in PS4. This, mixed with the extra latency reduction coming from wifi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 and the better compression that can be decompressed by hardware, I assume we'll see big improvements in PS5 regarding PS Now and Remote Play. So maybe the PS Now subscription or purchasing PS3 games for streaming may be a decent option to play PS3 games in PS5 (for people with fast internet, no data caps and living in countries supported by PS Now).
Last year Sony mentioned on an investor relations meeting some next gen long term plans for PS Now.
In addition to support '1080p and beyond resolutions', 'improve quality of contents', 'leverage existing capacity', and 'strengthen marketing support', they planned to grow beyond the 5M subs. milestone via portable and static clients, new entitles models, next gen hardware and next gen games and evolved services.
One of the ideas was to include a third option to purchase games for streaming, as a 3rd option in addition to the typical retail copy or digital download copy. They mentioned that this idea was for people who don't have the console. I thought they were talking about selling PS4 or PS5 games to people with these consoles, but I see they also seem to do that to offer PS3 games via streaming to PS4 (and I assume) PS5 players too.
Maybe the idea is in addition to have the 800+ games on PS Now subscription, to allow people to buy only specific ones with a single payment (in a Stadia way) instead of being paying the fee and without being limited to that game being removed or not from the subscription. Who knows, maybe this allow someone without a PS4 or PS5 to buy a PS5 only game at launch to play it via streaming in any device supported by PS Now like PC, phones or if in the future they buy a PS console, in console.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-ir-playstation-now-cloud-game-streaming-no-console/
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/irday/pdf/2019/GNS_E.pdf
We saw that PS5 now has crazy PSN download speeds, unlike in PS4. This, mixed with the extra latency reduction coming from wifi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 and the better compression that can be decompressed by hardware, I assume we'll see big improvements in PS5 regarding PS Now and Remote Play. So maybe the PS Now subscription or purchasing PS3 games for streaming may be a decent option to play PS3 games in PS5 (for people with fast internet, no data caps and living in countries supported by PS Now).
Hey my tweet was threadworthy
I discovered this last night when I was checking Killzone Shadowfall on the PS Store on my PS4.
Further context,
- I noticed that not all PS Now PS3 games are showing prices, for example Red Dead Redemption did not have a price.
- Not all games were £7.99, I think Journey was £4.99.
- These are different SKUs from normal and if you already own the game digitally (I own Journey digitally on PS3 & PS4) the price shows regardless
- Price only appears in the listing, when you click into the game it just shows the option to play on PS Now (I'm a PS Now subscriber so not sure what it would say otherwise)
Anyway, interesting stuff. Let's see what comes of it
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