Playstation Now Will Soon Be Available In More Countries That Aren’t Australia

17 responses to “Playstation Now Will Soon Be Available In More Countries That Aren’t Australia”

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   wisehacker

   January 25, 2019 at 9:27 am

   Dear Sony,

   Regardless of the state of Australian Internet, as long as you continue to not offer this service, you have a heavily reduced right to complain about piracy of any of your games and/or media in this region. Period.

   Signed,
   An Informed Australian.

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   1. 

      randomabuse

      January 25, 2019 at 9:29 am

      Yeah they really dont give a shit about Australia hey.

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      1. 

         wisehacker

         January 25, 2019 at 9:44 am

         It’s the same old story.

         Even if we have the best Internet known (just pretend with me for a moment), I still doubt they would offer the service.

         Like others, if Sony can’t take advantage of the “Australia Tax” and have a long comfortable ride on the gravy train associated with it, they are less inclined.

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   2. 

      tofuzombie

      January 25, 2019 at 9:51 am

      Look, I’m just as annoyed about this as the next Australian but firstly it is the Government’s fault as much, if not more, than it is Sony’s.
      Secondly – ‘We don’t get access to your services so that gives me the right to steal your products.’ What kind of whack logic is that? Am I misinterpreting this? If so, I take it back with all apologies.

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      1. 

         wisehacker

         January 25, 2019 at 10:16 am

         firstly it is the Government’s fault as much, if not more, than it is Sony’s.

         How?

         If Sony’s motivation is our poor infrastructure then it is a strong case against successive parties.

         In terms of price, that is an effect of the open market. If one wants the price of goods to be consistent and standardised, then the government has to have more regulations than it has now to cover the unit price of goods and services.

         In effect, this will require the market having to be closed in nature.

         ‘We don’t get access to your services so that gives me the right to steal your products.’ What kind of whack logic is that?

         That is your logic, not mine. Piracy is not stealing, period. Don’t start.

         If there is poor availability of a product or service, people will try and find alternatives before restoring to piracy.

         However, companies in the same sector as Sony will complain about piracy yet at the same time are also the one creating the conditions that motivate said piracy.

         Regardless, this tangent is pretty much obsolete now. @drsleepless is pointing out Sony’s own plans on our shores.

         Sony just needs to remember that even if they set up the service locally, they will find many will resort to a VPN, etc., to use over seas services if the prices is unfair.

         Just look at Amazon when it decided the 10% GST was not worth collecting. Amazon eventually relented as no amount of coupons was ever going to get Australian’s to the local Amazon site.

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      2. 

         kapone

         January 25, 2019 at 10:32 am

         Secondly – ‘We don’t get access to your services so that gives me the right to steal your products.’ What kind of whack logic is that?

         If there are no legitimate ways for consumers in a certain geography to purchase their products, then there is no loss to them if they are pirated by the same people.

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      3. 

         soldant

         January 25, 2019 at 10:33 am

         but firstly it is the Government’s fault as much, if not more, than it is Sony’s.
         No, it isn’t – it’s entirely Sony’s choice not to deploy services here. You’re thinking about residential NBN use, which Sony doesn’t give a shit about – they don’t care whether or not you personally can actually use the service, only if enough people in aggregate can use it. They can easily deploy local services if they want to – and apparently they want to, but the market has to be there for them to want to do that.

         The NBN is a mess but it won’t be the deciding factor for why Sony hasn’t deployed PS Now here. They deploy it in places like the US because there’s a massive customer base to take advantage of it. They deploy it in places like the EU because nations are clustered closer together such that services are easier to deploy across multiple locations. They probably haven’t deployed it here because there’s comparatively fewer customers, and they’re spread out predominately in major population centres with significant distances between them.

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   drsleepless

   January 25, 2019 at 10:01 am

   There isn’t much of a reason why we couldn’t have it here. But on a positive note Sony have just setup a new cloud gaming office in Adelaide. And earlier in the month was advertising for cloud network engineers and developers. Could be a safe bet it may not be to long in the future for the service to become available.

   https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-engineer-network-back-end-at-playstation-1022572601

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   1. 

      drsleepless

      January 25, 2019 at 10:04 am

      To add to that there is actually 3 positions available atm and all are related to network gaming.

      https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/sony-interactive-entertainment-playstion-jobs?trk=job_view_meet_company_see_all_jobs

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3. 

   bass400

   January 25, 2019 at 10:47 am

   I would normally just have rationalised this away as “oh well we’re a small market” but …. Finland? C’mon Sony.
   (PS love Finland)

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   1. 

      transientmind

      January 25, 2019 at 10:58 am

      It’s weird. Compared to many other small populations, Australians spend a lot on games, too. At generally higher (for no reason – certainly not tax) prices. We’re a pretty valuable market.

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      1. 

         lawlorz

         January 25, 2019 at 9:42 pm

         It’s just server location. Finland gets the benefit of having a server hosted somewhere in Europe. Australia/ new Zealand need a dedicated one

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4. 

   transientmind

   January 25, 2019 at 10:58 am

   ಠ_ಠ

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5. 

   zell71

   January 25, 2019 at 11:44 am

   Australia doesn’t want 100Mbps internet, says Turnbull. – 2010

   https://delimiter.com.au/2010/08/07/australia-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-100mbps-internet-says-turnbull/

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6. 

   jagji

   January 25, 2019 at 5:49 pm

   Aussie net is not good enough for video game streaming anyway.

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   1. 

      soldant

      January 25, 2019 at 8:19 pm

      It might be with local data centres – it’s latency that kills it. We’d probably need better upload speeds though.

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7. 

   riddick

   January 26, 2019 at 9:30 am

   My copper is pushing 85/33 Mbit atm, could do it, when NBN first became available 2 yrs ago I was getting 96/37, but copper degrades fast. I expect in another 2 years I’ll be down to the low 70s for downward speed…

   Gotta love copper….

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