NFL Sunday Ticket coming to PS3
Sony has partnered with DirecTV to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket subscription service to the PS3. Best of all, the service will be available even for those that don't have access to DirecTV.
While the games press is focused squarely on Europe, SCEA took some time to announce a megaton for Americans. Sony has partnered with DirecTV to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket subscription service to the PS3. Best of all, the service will be available even for those that don't currently have access to DirecTV. That means PS3 owners will be able to watch every "out-of-market" Sunday game.
The service will be a console-exclusive on the PS3, at least for this season. "We don't have any plans this season to bring [NFL Sunday Ticket] to another game console," DirecTV's Robert Mercer told Shacknews. "We just want to work with a single partner this time around to give everyone a great experience."
NFL Sunday Ticket offers up to 14 NFL games every Sunday, with full HD support for every game. In addition, the subscription also offers access to DirecTV's Red Zone channel, which recounts "the final yards of every scoring drive on one dedicated channel."
Existing DirecTV customers will be able to access the service on their PS3 for $50--the cost of the Sunday Ticket "To Go" program--and "use the PS3 as an additional receiver for your home." If you don't have access to DirecTV, you'll be able to subscribe to one season of the Sunday Ticket for $339.95. (That is close to the cost of adding the service to an existing DirecTV account: $335.)
"We know that PlayStation fans are huge sports enthusiasts, so adding NFL Sunday Ticket is the perfect complement to the PS3’s rapidly growing lineup of sports entertainment, including MLB.TV and NHL GameCenter," Philip Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Business Development said on the PlayStation.Blog. "I hope you’re as excited for the football season as we are."
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Sony has partnered with DirecTV to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket subscription service to the PS3. Best of all, the service will be available even for those that don't have access to DirecTV.-
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if your a huge football fan but don't have direct tv, thats actually not that bad.
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People actually want to and can watch all their NFL team's games and others though. That MLB number is silly to advertise since most people wouldn't even watch 1% of those games. I am actually guaranteed to watch every Pats game and whatever else is available. Note they aren't advertising "watch 200 NFL games!" they're advertising "watch all your teams games!" I am happy to pay it and I'd never buy the MLB package, there are already more games on broadcast TV than i can watch, Red Sox or otherwise.
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Also you can get the games streaming after the fact for $40-50 for the whole season and that includes some very useful camera angles that aren't in the normal broadcasts
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Then that's a great value for you, but I suspect you're in a minority and that if you're actually so hardcore as to watch 200+ baseball games a year you'd happily pay $300+ for the same service while the more casual would balk at it. At the same time they obviously can't charge even $5/game to the hardcore and expect an $800 package to succeed. I can go to a bar and buy some food and beer for at least $10 every Sunday, or I can enjoy it from my own couch for a little more. I'm quite happy with that. People pay $350 in 4-5 for a slew of cable channels they don't watch, if the same price for a whole NFL season is too much (note that's not $20 for a game each weekend, that's 6 hours of entertainment plus the Redzone and Gamemix channels) then you're just not that hardcore :P
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yes, but if it's in your market then what's the problem with throwing up bunny ears and watching it OTA? It'll be better quality than DirectTV's online stream.
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Wow, fuck yeah!
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wait... I just say and advertisement last night that the sunday ticket was going to be FREE for all exsisting directv subscribers....
so how can they justify it costing $50 for all current users and $340 for non subscribers??!?!?
It should also be free for non subscribers.. and at most whatever the cheapest tier for directv for non subscibers....
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I had read the advert as new subs would get the ticket, oh, and if you move..........i would be happy though if it is all existing subs
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DirecTV is running a '1 year of NFL ticket for free for new subscribers' deal. I assume beyond that you're still on the hook for the 340$ a year.
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Great news for football fans. I'm not going to get it because I live in the market my team is and Redzone is good enough for me if my team isn't playing. This and the 360 making upgrades to ESPN 3 at the end of the month for College Football will have a great overall football season.
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the DirectTV online thing only allows one login at a time, so nothing beyond the fact that only one of you can watch it at a time. Degenerate, cltprd and myself shared one account a few years ago. we had to synch up to watch games we wanted to see but otherwise it's do-able. they might be more strict about checking stuff now though, I have no idea.
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That's what I did and it worked fine. Also works on phones too (although it looked like crap).
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That wouldn't be necessary if their interface sucked less. I don't know why it's so hard for them to make it nice to watch 2 games side by side (ie the game I care about and Redzone, no channel flippng or stupid PiP)
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This is how I'll justify it. If I went to the bar every Sunday I would easily drop $40 a day. Multiply that by 16 and I can see saving money. Hell host a game day every other Sunday and make your friends bring the food and beer and it's not hard to justify the money. Now I'd still love it to be cheaper, but I think a lot of people just see that as a lot of money up front. I wonder if they'd have better luck at selling it as $25/week and giving people the option to skip weeks if they so desire.
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If this has superfan features like ToGo, replays, Red Zone HD, I might have to justify this. I canceled TV this year to save money and NFL was the big reason I had DirecTV.
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Well I'm out this year as I have to save money, but if things pick up this seems like a huge pickup for Sony. Killer App for PSN they've always wanted.
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