PlayStation Now 'is a joke,' says Pachter. He's wrong.

"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," he explained. "This has no prayer of working. None."

http://www.gamezone.com/news/2014/02/05/playstation-now-is-a-joke-says-pachter-he-s-wrong

It sounds like they are both saying the same thing - Pachter saying games need to be older than ~2 years and the blogger is saying the service is built more for PS1 and PS2 titles.

Same difference.

@R3FURBISHED:

When PS4/Xone was announce with no BC, a lot of people ripped the idea of playing old games on new systems.

Then they get excited for PSNow. Bottom line is people are not consistence on their stances.

Is that fair say?

Of course he is wrong, Pachter is always wrong.

Right and Wrong.

Pachter Is completely wrong on this issue.

On the other hand he makes everyone squirm because he's an analyst. He's paid to guess. So he can never truly be wrong.

PS+ has had titles that are around a year old on mutliple occasions so there's enough evidence that what Patcher says is nonsense.

'no publisher that is going to license content that's less than two-years old' hahah yeah when did bioshock infinite release again? and is it available for ps+? yes it is haha

i would have been skeptical if ps+ didnt exist but if publishers are willing to put their games on ps+ why not playstation now

Yes and no. There are people who think they want backwards compatibility but won't utilize it, people who want the option and may or may not use it and people like me who think its a waste of time (BC).

Pachter is wrong 99.9% of the time.

He's right for once. Nobody who buys a PS4 is doing so to play PS3 games, and people like myself who already own a shit ton of PS3 games will not be interested in the service--and then there's the small chance of the service being flawless enough to work properly.

Same reason "Family Share" wouldn't of allowed 10 users playing a new game.

Same thing could have been said about movies but just look at Netflix.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/02/05/pachter-says-playstation-now-is-a-joke-has-no-prayer-of-working/

Love how PlaystationLifeStyle owned his ass lol!

SDC

I thought PS Now was about old games anyway?

I'm concerned with what PS Now will offer in comparison to what I can already get.

With something like Netflix I get tons of popular content, cult classics, lots of documentaries and tv series, and foreign programs, and it's just a much more convenient way to access so much content for only $8 a month.

If you could get access to the entirety of the PS1, PS2, and PSP catalog (and perhaps the PS3/PS4/PSV catalog, but nogames anyways), and then perhaps more if Sony offers Japanese games for the Western markets, and this all comes for $8-$10 a month, then that'd be great.

I'm just reminded of OnLive though where you not only paid something like $15 a month for the service, but you paid for each individual game you played as well because streaming video games is expensive. It costs much, much more than it does to stream music, or movies. On top of that you got a pretty limited selection, and it was all worse quality than playing the game on your own hardware.

This service seems like something that should be incorporated into PSN+ to me. All that other stuff on PSN+ doesn't quite make the service worth it to me, but retro gaming on-demand would be enough for me to purchase a PS4 if it didn't cost more than Netflix and I were able to play current games online at no cost in addition to PS Now.

I was invited to the PlayStation Now beta and I'm still waiting for my code.

Uggggg I hate to defend pachter but it was taken slightly out of context, he was talking about how New games wouldn't go for it, but older ones would,. Not that it would fail altogether.

Pachter's always fucking wrong in his predictions and he knows it. He says stuff that makes people edgy and talkative

As he said himself "I'm really good at making sure I get paid"

Why do people pay attention to this guy after all the things he gets wrong. He has no background in video games and does not even play games. Yet people seem to always quote this moron I just don't get it??

Wasn't it already stated this was mostly going to be for letting people play old FIRST PARTY titles? Let's just forget he's already wrong because this is exactly how ps+ is working now when it comes to acquisition of games.

Patcher just dealt a death blow to cows. PSN is over before it starts anyway.

I think his point is, if its about old games, how many are going to turn away from their new consoles to play this enough to make it profitable? Time will tell...

I guess that why Playstation Plus give recent game regularly.

Whether Pachter wants to admit it or not streaming is very likely the future of video games; it's not a matter of the Playstation Now service being a "joke" but perhaps Sony's timing is.

And to comment on Pachter himself I find that he is less an analyst and more a man throwing darts at a board.

so what does he think about PSN +?

lol

It will be pointless if it limited to just 1st party games.

Short term the concept sounds cool, but I think long term people will be turned off as PS4 matures.

Patcher mostly just says anything that will get him attention. Much like is evidenced by your posting.

He will side with someone if the majority believes it also, he will decry something if there is something there that goes against the grain enough to get people riled up and so on. He has no real savvy or insight because only half of his predictions come true which is about as many as if I just guessed at things. Then when he is right he brings it up a lot, when he is wrong he never mentions it again.

He is a nobody with no real information, yet he gets attention for some reason.

Everyone is misunderstanding him. He meant Playstation now is a joke. Not Playstation Now is a joke. As in, Playstation as a whole, currently, is a joke. In which case, he's right!

:P

just another get rich quick scheme by sony. but since its sony is doing it everything is ok . i bet u mostly all the sonyfanboys will rebuy ps1 games they already bought on ps3 just to support the love of their lives lol

I'm not worried about the quality of games, I'm worried about how they will perform.

Pachter's not wrong about the scenario he's presenting. But PSnow isn't yet positioning itself to supplant the local operations model games currently employ - it's meant to serve as a bridge for existing content from previous platforms, bypassing the need for reprogramming.

Uncertain in what ways PSnow was pitched to him.

Same reason netflix is a joke. No company would allow their movies to be streamed unless they are a couple of years old, because that would hurt cinema/DVD sales.

Oh wait, Netflix is still kind of big....

Patcher can do greco wrestling with Major Nelson ..... battle of the ol farts

Playstation Now is great. PS fans will be able to buy a Sony PC...uhh I mean Sony TV..i Mean Sony Vita....crapppppppp.

origin / gaikai / PSc NOw is like netflix

its second line products

old or bad games are coming

@PSP107:

Pachter = LOL. This guy is never right on anything.

His point is valid, no publisher in their right mind would put a game up for rental at the same time of release does not make economical sense. But I thought PS Now is being aimed at PS3 titles, well for now at least. I don't see any value in it personally but some people will like it for sure, people might use it to demo a game before they buy it?

is that the streaming service?

because if it is then yeah, it will probably suck ass.

onlive never worked right and was around for years and had tons of updates and patches and if onlive whose sole purpose was to make streaming gaming the thing of the future could not work then what hope does sony have at making it work as nothing more than an experimental side project?

the most likely outcome of this will be it will struggle to perform and then be abandoned by sony just like how they abandon almost everything else that does not work out as well as they want after a year or so.

the ugly truth of the matter is that all you have to do to predict how well streaming games will go over is to look at onlive.

I won't be surprised if Now ends up being useless at some point.

It's going to be just like netflix/amazon prime. Older titles mixed with newer ones that didn't sell especially well, plus a handful of popular blockbusters.

Pachter... a non gaming guessing machine. Put your money on the horse he says has the longest shot to win and get rich.

@PSP107: agreed. Why? When I can buy some of the games I want access to at anytime as downloads on my vita? I have ff7,8 on vita. Mgs on ps3. What do they want me to pay them to stream? I have a ps3, unless its like .99 cents to stream, for life! It makes no sense for on to not go to the bargain bin at Gamestop. I can gate kz2, 3 fot like 6.00 and I OWN them. What is the draw?

He is absolutely correct here but I think our boy patch is a little confused on what Playstation Now is because it's for old content/games, not <2 year old games

Yes... thats why PS NOW is for backlog of previous consoles....

What? did he think you could play new release games day one?

PS NOW is for PS1, 2, 3. 2 years from now every PS3 game thats releasing right now would be 2+ years old.

Also PS NOW is mainly meant to be for old classic games and PS exclusives. I doubt you'll be seeing Battle Field, COD, Assassins Creed, and stuff like that.

Psnow will be hot and this dude is clueless, Netflix is the perfect example why it will work. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. And from what I've read Psnow is for ps3 games as emulation for ps1+2 is rumored to be coming soon. Anytime ppl come out saying they think something new us awful generally becomes awesome, ppl fear change until it's proven and then everyone wants a piece of the action

Yeah I'm curious on how they price this.

He's right.