As of right now, are you leaning XBox Scarlett or PS5?

As of this moment, how do you expect you'll be spending your money come next gen?

  • I guess PS5, but I'm not confident

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Game pass is the future, sony will have to come up with something similar or they'll play catch up next gen... hell, they even missed ea access, which prob was their biggest mistake this gen.
 
Game pass is the future, sony will have to come up with something similar or they'll play catch up next gen... hell, they even missed ea access, which prob was their biggest mistake this gen.

Doesn't Playstation Now currently offer downloads, making it pretty similar to Game Pass?
 
I thought it was a s***ty service which makes you buy old games for streaming?

I don't think that's the case anymore. As of September, they seem to be offering downloads on all their PS4 games. If you can stream it, you can download it.

Sony seems pretty prepared on this front for next gen.
 
I don't think that's the case anymore. As of September, they seem to be offering downloads on all their PS4 games. If you can stream it, you can download it.

Sony seems pretty prepared on this front for next gen.

Not all games can be downloaded. They have some sort of attached symbol indicating download option. Also, PS Now is almost double the price of Game Pass at $19.99 a month. There are some deals right now for the holidays though. I've researched both services and to be honest they seem more for the casual gamer. I buy most of the games I want when they come out so Game Pass and PS Now offer limited value for a gamer like me. If PS Now had day 1 exclusives like Game Pass I'd subscribe just for that. But to pay almost $20 a month for Killzone, Sniper Elite 4 is not going to do it for me.
 
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Not all games can be downloaded. They have some sort of attached symbol indicating download option. Also, PS Now is almost double the price of Game Pass at $19.99 a month. There are some deals right now for the holidays though. I've researched both services and to be honest they seem more for the casual gamer. I buy most of the games I want when they come out so Game Pass and PS Now offer limited value for a gamer like me. If PS Now had day 1 exclusives like Game Pass I'd subscribe just for that. But to pay almost $20 a month for Killzone, Sniper Elite 4 is not going to do it for me.

Good to know.

It still seems like Sony is in a prepared position to match Game Pass if they saw it as a big enough threat.

If Game Pass is a big deal in 2020, I don't expect PSNow to be far behind.
 
PS Now makes a lot more money than GamePass; it's about 53% of the market, as opposed to about 15% for GamePass.

PSNow offers the same streaming and downloads that GP does, although downloads are only available for about two-thirds of the games.

The selection of games is considerably better on Game Pass than it is on PS Now -- that's the main difference for me (apart from pricing). Sony is more restrictive in the number of games they're willing to put on there.
 
Game pass is the future, sony will have to come up with something similar or they'll play catch up next gen... hell, they even missed ea access, which prob was their biggest mistake this gen.

Needs good games first..
 
No.

Microsoft isn't rebooting Halo because 4 and 5 were such critical and commercial successes. The Halo games were prestige games under Bungie and industry leading in many regards. 343's efforts were decidedly...not. To Microsofts credit, it looks like they're trying to do something about that with Infinity.

The last Gears of War game was also the worst recieved game in the franchise from a critical perspective. I'm sure it sold well enough, but to suggest that Halo and Gears didn't take a major ding in terms of reputation this generation is just false.

He also gets a lot of other stuff wrong. I'm not sure if it's schtick like TDbank at this point, but I notice Hedon in particular is wrong a lot of the time. I don't necessarily get that impression from most of the members here.
Stop lying before you get banned again. Oh and what is your gamer tag?
 
Lol Tommy boy, there's hundreds of great multiplats, not sure what you mean? If they have a better streaming service graphically (and I'd think more stable) they'll win me over even if they don't have horizon zero dawn 3.
And great exclusives lol
 
PS Now makes a lot more money than GamePass; it's about 53% of the market, as opposed to about 15% for GamePass.

PSNow offers the same streaming and downloads that GP does, although downloads are only available for about two-thirds of the games.

The selection of games is considerably better on Game Pass than it is on PS Now -- that's the main difference for me (apart from pricing). Sony is more restrictive in the number of games they're willing to put on there.

Sony's site says there are over 650 games on PSnow, that's more than GP isn't it? I know for download GP has more but that's only because the X1 offers a form of backwards compatibility with the PS4 does not. If you removed the 360 games from GP it would have a much smaller line up, of course taking old games off of PSnow would do the same thing for that service.
 
Game pass is the future, sony will have to come up with something similar or they'll play catch up next gen... hell, they even missed ea access, which prob was their biggest mistake this gen.

EA access really isn't that big of a miss this gen for Sony, the PS4 isn't backwards compatible so it would make the games on offer far more limited. EA access sounds like a good value on the face of it when you go by the raw number of titles but when you see how many are 360 games and how many are older X1 games it just seems like a service you get if you are the type of person who doesn't really buy games, if anything it has showed me how shallow EA's portfolio has been this generation.
 
Sony's site says there are over 650 games on PSnow, that's more than GP isn't it? I know for download GP has more but that's only because the X1 offers a form of backwards compatibility with the PS4 does not. If you removed the 360 games from GP it would have a much smaller line up, of course taking old games off of PSnow would do the same thing for that service.
PS Now has been out for 5 years.....
 
I think the good thing about the game pass is new first party game is free (correct me if wrong), but in order to be meaningful, MS need good first party games. Also, Gamepass need to expand to PC & mobiles. Obviously mobile will only get game suitable for mobile.
 
I think the good thing about the game pass is new first party game is free (correct me if wrong), but in order to be meaningful, MS need good first party games. Also, Gamepass need to expand to PC & mobiles. Obviously mobile will only get game suitable for mobile.
errr...they have good first party games.
 
Sony's site says there are over 650 games on PSnow, that's more than GP isn't it? I know for download GP has more but that's only because the X1 offers a form of backwards compatibility with the PS4 does not. If you removed the 360 games from GP it would have a much smaller line up, of course taking old games off of PSnow would do the same thing for that service.

PSNow probably does have more games, that's true. I just know that when I looked at the selection, Game Pass had a lot more that I wanted to try out than PS Now did. Granted, that may be partly because I've been a PS4 owner for 5 years, so I've already plumbed their catalog pretty well, whereas I'm new to the Xbox catalog. Still, it seems like MS is trying harder in this area than Sony is.
 
He [Hedon] also gets a lot of other stuff wrong. I'm not sure if it's schtick like TDbank at this point, but I notice Hedon in particular is wrong a lot of the time. I don't necessarily get that impression from most of the members here.

I'd strongly suggest you stop trolling individual members like that.
 
EA access really isn't that big of a miss this gen for Sony, the PS4 isn't backwards compatible so it would make the games on offer far more limited. EA access sounds like a good value on the face of it when you go by the raw number of titles but when you see how many are 360 games and how many are older X1 games it just seems like a service you get if you are the type of person who doesn't really buy games, if anything it has showed me how shallow EA's portfolio has been this generation.

Oddly enough, the biggest benefit of EA Access is the 10 hour trial and the 10% discount on all EA games. Basically if you buy a couple EA games a year it pays for much of the yearly fee. Also if you are into their sports games and don't play online as much it makes a ton of sense.
 
I think the good thing about the game pass is new first party game is free (correct me if wrong), but in order to be meaningful, MS need good first party games. Also, Gamepass need to expand to PC & mobiles. Obviously mobile will only get game suitable for mobile.

Yeah once they start releasing more first party stuff it'll be better, this year was pretty light on anything worth buying.
 
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Oddly enough, the biggest benefit of EA Access is the 10 hour trial and the 10% discount on all EA games. Basically if you buy a couple EA games a year it pays for much of the yearly fee. Also if you are into their sports games and don't play online as much it makes a ton of sense.

The sports titles show up about 6 months after they release right? the trial is nice on the surface but when most of their games are sports titles that don't change much from one year to the next it kind of lessens the value there IMO.
 
I mean in the level of Sony exclusives like Spider-Man, GOW, horizon zero dawn,uncharted etc.
That makes no sense either. Your whole point makes no sense.

A service like Gamepass doesn't need any exclusives to be meaningful.
 
The sports titles show up about 6 months after they release right? the trial is nice on the surface but when most of their games are sports titles that don't change much from one year to the next it kind of lessens the value there IMO.

More or less yes. Basically if you like their sports games it works out great.

It can be really helpful with the sports games because sometimes they make subtle changes that actually improve the game. Plus the beta/demo usually is different than the final.

It keeps them a little more honest. You have to give them credit for allowing people to test drive any game. They at least seem to be trying to make noticeable gameplay changes to their games.

EA gets a lot of flak but they have gotten better. I have a lot more issues with other companies lately.

Plus it is only $30 a year. With the 10% discount it is easy to get that kind of value.
 
More or less yes. Basically if you like their sports games it works out great.

It can be really helpful with the sports games because sometimes they make subtle changes that actually improve the game. Plus the beta/demo usually is different than the final.

It keeps them a little more honest. You have to give them credit for allowing people to test drive any game. They at least seem to be trying to make noticeable gameplay changes to their games.

EA gets a lot of flak but they have gotten better. I have a lot more issues with other companies lately.

Plus it is only $30 a year. With the 10% discount it is easy to get that kind of value.

Well they aren't doing it to do us favors it's there to make money, we used to get free demos of their sports games back in the day but that's all gone away. The 10% is nice but think about how many EA games you actually buy in a year, unless you are a hardcore sports gamer that buys every game they make it's not going to come out in your favor. The trail period stuff is better for non sports games IMO but they really don't focus a whole lot on single player content these days so that's going to mean less and less as time goes on as well. Most of their titles are sports, racing or MP shooters with single player campaigns tacked on. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying they are bad for offering the service, it's not like anyone is forced to take part in it, having options isn't a bad thing.