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Sony, in partnership with DirecTV, said today that the satellite TV provider’s popular NFL Sunday Ticket service will be available for live streaming on PlayStation 3 consoles. The package allows viewers to watch out-of-market games and comes free with a DirecTV subscription. The fee for existing subscribers to add Sunday Ticket on their console will be an additional $50 at the start of the season. But PlayStation 3 users who want the NFL package but don’t have DirecTV will have to shell out $339.95. The package will feature up to 14 games a week in high-def and include DirecTV’s Red Zone Channel, which provides scoring highlights from around the NFL.
“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,” Philip Rosenberg, SVP business development, said on the PlayStation blog. Major League Baseball and the NHL are currently available on the consoles. For now, the deal is exclusive. “We just want to work with a single partner this time around to give everyone a great experience,” DirecTV director of public relations Robert Mercer told Shacknews.
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Are they serious? You’ve GOT to be kidding me! The PS3 just had a price drop to $299 for the 320GB slim package. That means that it costs LESS to buy another Playstation 3 than to subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket if you don’t have DirecTV! In what insane world does this make sense?!
What does the cost of the box have to do with the cost of the content ? Anyone who owns instead of renting their cable box is going to spend more for content over one season than they paid for the box.
i’m better off playing nfl blitz
That’s a steep price for an unproven product (the quality of the stream, that is). You’d think they’d want to throw a bone to NFL fans who are fed up with the price gouging.
by comparison…. it costs $339.00 even if you already have DTV!
Maybe I’m wrong, or maybe the promotion is over now, but wasn’t DTV using free Sunday Ticket to lure in new customers?
This is huge, and the same as if you already had DTV. $340 is a drop in the bucket for 5 months of football
I’m a die hard football fan and even I believe this price is outrageous.
It will be interesting to see if the rest of the country that DOESN’T make between 6 and 7 figures and is struggling to get by thinks that this “…is a drop in the bucket…”
Frankly, this price is pretty shameful when you think of the demographic that would’ve been interested in it. (No, that demographic ISN’T the Showrunner driving a convertible Jag to and from his house in the Malibu Colony)
I hope they fixed their digital streams. I had this last year when they first made it available for people who couldn’t get DirecTV—for iOS and desktop viewing. It was unwatchable and I made them give me a refund. Amateur hour, with video that would generally run at 1 frame per second on the desktop and the iOS apps would constantly crash. Wasn’t worth $10, let alone $300.
The price is outrageous, but not surprising.
MLB.tv costs $120 a season, NHL GameCenter costs $170 a season, and NBA League Pass costs $190 a season. Premium sports packages are already pretty damn costly.
Then add in the fact that DirectTV already overcharges for NFL Sunday Ticket ($335 for just one month, or $67/month for five months), the desire to try and encourage people to sign up for DirectTV (paying $50 is better than paying $340), and the popularity of the NFL in general, it’s no surprise at all how much NFL League Pass costs. Expect the price to go down if DirectTV loses exclusive rights to NFL League Pass, and that’s a big if, because DirectTV is keeping those exclusive rights close to the chest.
And on a side note, I think the big question will be if Sony and DirectTV will treat NFL Sunday Ticket the way they treat MLB.tv and NHL GameCenter where non-subscribers can at the very least check scores and schedules.
That price buys a lot of beer and wings at my local sports bar.
Um…no it doesn’t. Do you spend less than $22/week? Pretty tough in the DC area, not sure where you live.
I cut the cord on DirecTV last year and I couldn’t be happier. NFL is the only thing I can’t stream until this year when they offered this NFL Sunday Ticket To Go, but you have to buy the Sunday Ticket at 335 plus 50 for the To Go app.
I know from previous experience that DirecTV cuts the price by almost half at a certain point; what I can’t remember is at what week they offer that drastic price cut? That’s when I would probably jump on it.
I have seen on eBay people auctioning off a $100 dollar discount code for Sunday Ticket. Does anyone know if these are legit or just another scam?
Well I’m a hardcore football fan , for all the lack of customer service Directv offers I’d drop them in a heartbeat if I could get it on Comcast. But I dont see this happening in my life time , how they have been able to keep exclussive since 1994 is a mystery. But as most things just the way it is , Directv was trying to get MLB exclussive the fans went nuts and got it changed , I find it hard to believe they are meaner than us NFL fans. But it’s the way it is.
I’m a NFL fan and really wish AT&T Uverse had the Sunday Ticket because I would surely buy it. Fiber optics (IPTV) is the way to go for viewing any shows in 1080p HD and superior functionality with the total home DVR. Now they even have a wireless DVR that can be moved from room to room and you can watch four games at once.
As it relates to the price, it seems a bit extreme and especially if streaming is on the PS3 as bad as some have suggested in this string of comments.