Noctis Caelum
06-23-2014, 01:11 AM
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If you are unaware of what is going on with this subject, feel free to look up a few articles. I am not explaining it because it will just make me angrier. I'll summarize by saying that people are OUTRAGED that the renting application PS Now is going to have some "unfavorable" prices, compared to what gamers can pay for games right now.
What people are forgetting, is that this service enables someone without a Playstation to enjoy Playstation games. There are some people out there that are actually thankful this exists, and then there's everyone on /r/PS4, whos's a selfish demanding :bou::bou::bou::bou:. But to be completely fair to these simple minded children, Sony allowed this to happen. They allowed this misconception to occur without being informative enough. Close-minded peasants are ONLY seeing this as "RENTALS ON PLAYSTATION" which is only a fraction of what this is. But it's the only portion of it which is relevant to them. So selfishly, they react as if it's the only thing the service does and critique the service in its entirety, based on the dissatisfaction they have with the small portion of it they intend to use without even considering what else it can do.
But WHAT ELSE CAN IT DO, I hear you asking? Let's say your name is Jorah Mormont. You're 40 years old and you like to rent movies to watch with the wife. You own a new TV, which has a netflix app on it, and you rent movies from that. You stream movies every night, and each one costs you $6. Then all of a sudden, one day a new app appears, called PS Now. And all of a sudden you can rent thousands of games that you can actually interact and play with, and they're all available instantaneously, in the same format your movies were. To you, this is like, holy mothersmurfing trout. Never played a game before in your life, only heard about them until this point, and now you have instant access to thousands of them, that person is impressed as smurf. But the generic close-minded console peasant on the other hand is like, why the smurf do I need this smurfing trout for? EVERYONE ELSE who isn't a Playstation gamer can be a Playstation gamer now, WITHOUT buying an entire console. PC gamers can play Playstation games now. Mobile gamers can play Playstation games now. Casual people with always-online devices, like TV's and mobiles can play Playstation games now. All without buying a single piece of Playstation hardware, all instantaneous and on demand. Just pay and play. THAT is convenience at its finest.
To people who own Playstations though, who can actually buy and play actual physical Playstation games, it's less relevant. Sony might present some alternative options, renting might be more relevant than buying in some cases, but the biggest and most important detail, which dumb smurf Playstation owners seem to be forgetting, is that the entire world can be a part of Playstation now. There are going to be millions upon millions of new accounts. The Playstation network is going to grow massively. That is amazing. Am I going to use Playstation now? Only when I'm not on my console. Is someone without a Playstation going to use Playstation now? Yeah, probably all the time. That's the difference, gaming can now be a streamable and on-demand service on any device. That's revolutionized Playstation. It's opened so many possibilities. And again, it's less relevant to people who already own Playstations. When PS Now goes live, there'll be apps on android devices, iOS, mobiles, tablets, televisions, set-top boxes like Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Roku, apps on PC, Mac, Linux... every single one of these platforms will usher in new PlayStation players. And it's sort of why they're targeting PS3 games. PS3 hardware is going to be phased out, but the games live on, instead of just phasing out the PS3 and 8 years of content with it can now offer that content to everyone else, who doesn't have a console. I think that's incredible. Can't say the same for any other console generation however, and that's a god damn shame. I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if you could just stream Mario 64 or Conker's Bad Fur Day to whatever device you had, except you can't, those games are forgotten, forever unless you can somehow get your hands on a N64 and a copy. But that's less convenient. And this is the whole point.
You can buy a $500 console and a $60 game or you can just use your TV/Phone/Pc and rent a game for $7. You choose.
Just stop being a guido and thinking this doesn't benefit millions of people out there that can't be smurfed buying a console.
Rant over. Now tell me how wrong I am.
If you are unaware of what is going on with this subject, feel free to look up a few articles. I am not explaining it because it will just make me angrier. I'll summarize by saying that people are OUTRAGED that the renting application PS Now is going to have some "unfavorable" prices, compared to what gamers can pay for games right now.
What people are forgetting, is that this service enables someone without a Playstation to enjoy Playstation games. There are some people out there that are actually thankful this exists, and then there's everyone on /r/PS4, whos's a selfish demanding :bou::bou::bou::bou:. But to be completely fair to these simple minded children, Sony allowed this to happen. They allowed this misconception to occur without being informative enough. Close-minded peasants are ONLY seeing this as "RENTALS ON PLAYSTATION" which is only a fraction of what this is. But it's the only portion of it which is relevant to them. So selfishly, they react as if it's the only thing the service does and critique the service in its entirety, based on the dissatisfaction they have with the small portion of it they intend to use without even considering what else it can do.
But WHAT ELSE CAN IT DO, I hear you asking? Let's say your name is Jorah Mormont. You're 40 years old and you like to rent movies to watch with the wife. You own a new TV, which has a netflix app on it, and you rent movies from that. You stream movies every night, and each one costs you $6. Then all of a sudden, one day a new app appears, called PS Now. And all of a sudden you can rent thousands of games that you can actually interact and play with, and they're all available instantaneously, in the same format your movies were. To you, this is like, holy mothersmurfing trout. Never played a game before in your life, only heard about them until this point, and now you have instant access to thousands of them, that person is impressed as smurf. But the generic close-minded console peasant on the other hand is like, why the smurf do I need this smurfing trout for? EVERYONE ELSE who isn't a Playstation gamer can be a Playstation gamer now, WITHOUT buying an entire console. PC gamers can play Playstation games now. Mobile gamers can play Playstation games now. Casual people with always-online devices, like TV's and mobiles can play Playstation games now. All without buying a single piece of Playstation hardware, all instantaneous and on demand. Just pay and play. THAT is convenience at its finest.
To people who own Playstations though, who can actually buy and play actual physical Playstation games, it's less relevant. Sony might present some alternative options, renting might be more relevant than buying in some cases, but the biggest and most important detail, which dumb smurf Playstation owners seem to be forgetting, is that the entire world can be a part of Playstation now. There are going to be millions upon millions of new accounts. The Playstation network is going to grow massively. That is amazing. Am I going to use Playstation now? Only when I'm not on my console. Is someone without a Playstation going to use Playstation now? Yeah, probably all the time. That's the difference, gaming can now be a streamable and on-demand service on any device. That's revolutionized Playstation. It's opened so many possibilities. And again, it's less relevant to people who already own Playstations. When PS Now goes live, there'll be apps on android devices, iOS, mobiles, tablets, televisions, set-top boxes like Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Roku, apps on PC, Mac, Linux... every single one of these platforms will usher in new PlayStation players. And it's sort of why they're targeting PS3 games. PS3 hardware is going to be phased out, but the games live on, instead of just phasing out the PS3 and 8 years of content with it can now offer that content to everyone else, who doesn't have a console. I think that's incredible. Can't say the same for any other console generation however, and that's a god damn shame. I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if you could just stream Mario 64 or Conker's Bad Fur Day to whatever device you had, except you can't, those games are forgotten, forever unless you can somehow get your hands on a N64 and a copy. But that's less convenient. And this is the whole point.
You can buy a $500 console and a $60 game or you can just use your TV/Phone/Pc and rent a game for $7. You choose.
Just stop being a guido and thinking this doesn't benefit millions of people out there that can't be smurfed buying a console.
Rant over. Now tell me how wrong I am.