PlayStation Now Public Beta Starts Today on PS4 With 100+ Games; Check Out This Walkthrough Video

PSNow seems mostly targeted at those PS4 owners who never had a PS3. One Sony VP cited a study which found that about 48% of PS4 owners never owned a PS3.

It's targeted for PlayStation TV also, with other devices added some time in the future.

Some of the pricing isn't too bad. There are some games that are only $7.99 or $9.99 to rent for the month. For most, it seems the week pricing is the best deal, though. I've read a lot of negative comments about the 4-hour price of games—but at the same time, comments about how you can't even complete a game in 4 hours. So the 4-hour pricing is probably for extremely casual players.

Sony is listening, no longer $5 for 4 hours, now it's ONLY $2 for 4 hours (for some titles).

Those damned YouTubers with their damned 10 minute speed runs.

Hoping the beta comes to Europe real soon. I'm not a fan of the idea of renting over purchasing, but I'd like to try this out.

Here's my feedback, Sony: REASONABLE PRICES.

I'm a Sony fanboy, but even I think this is stupid.

And yet people will still rent games from Now.

really?! 4 hour rental? Why not a one day rental? How about having a renting to own model? You rent the game and you like it then just paid the difference of the buy price. And yes i do agree about having some kind of unlimited subscription would be good too.

I think PSNow is great but I really hope they adjust the pricing by the time I buy a PS4, some of those deals seam a bit pricey.

I don't know... most games can be completed in 10 - 15 hours or so, which would not turn out to be that bad. Say if fresh PS4 owner wants to check out previous Uncharted games before getting Uncharted 4. Or any other ongoing franchise.

I mean - Darksiders, $5.99 for 7 days. Sure you can finish game in 7 days..?

Eventually - if it sells, the price is right. If it doesn't, Sony will have to adjust pricing.

this service is still a cool idea, and a convenient option, but as many have said before the prices are completely out of whack. anyone with half a brain will do a little research and see that they can save money by simply buying the game they're interested in renting rather than getting it for 90 days (and in some cases 30 days). if there's no subscription model then this is going to be a catastrophic fail for sony

thank f*ck for the subscription because there is no way in hell i am paying those prices just to rent games

I'll just keep my PS3 and buy the games I want in a year or so when they're $9.99 new! lol This is an overpriced service.

With those prices and the fact that the console can read discs, i think that the physical media is safe. I don't get why Sony is releasing this open Beta with the same prices that nobody accepted in the first one.

It was literally the first problem that everyone pointed to them. You can buy a physicall copy of practically all of the games on the repertoire for less than the 90 day rental price and keep all the buyer privileges that comes with it.

The only way to make this option attractive enough, is the subscription model as part of the Plus service (with the obvious price increment).

This service completely sucks. I looked at a game and it cost $4.99 FOR 4 HOURS!!! Are you serious??!! The prices are just ridiculous. It should be like $.99 for something like that.

This streaming service started out as a way to play the PS3 games you OWNED on the PS4. All your digitally owned games will be streamed to your PS4. I even got the impression that if you owned the disc version that you could put the PS3 disc in your PS4 and it would let you stream that game so you could play it. More Sony lies.

Now it's a frigin SUPER-overpriced rental service. I own all the Back To The Future games from the PS3. They're all digital games that I purchased on PSN. I went to the Back To The Future game selection and PS Now will charge me the same price as everyone else, even though I own the digital PS3 games. It's not right. It's just not right. I hope the service fails miserably.

I have a strange theory...maybe this is really out there. But they stopped talking about PS1&PS2 games and are being really dodgy about it....

I wonder if they will make PS1 and PS2 games all free with the price of the monthly/annual subscription when it comes out.

Think about it, most that are willing to pay the monthly fee are likely hardcore gamers and looking for those older titles. This would ensure a loyal fanbase every month, and also give a ton of value. Because really...how much do you charge for such old games? This seems like a good idea to me.

If it's got decent games at a decent price point i may take it up. If it doesn't suit me i won't. either way i won't come onto a comments section whining about it.

It's kinda annoying that they expect me to pay them without even offering a free hour to try it out first.Is that too much to ask ? I'm also really disappointed that they do't have any of the ps3 exclusives to try out.