No, Sony Interactive Entertainment will not remain motionless in the great battle of subscriptions. The one who opened the ball of free games more than 10 years ago now prepares a new offensive that would merge current offers PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now. Nothing official, but when Jason Schrader from Bloomberg publishes an article about the question, something is necessarily targeting.
The people demanded an answer to the Xbox Game Pass and obviously he will have one. According to Jason Schrader's information, Jim Ryan and his lieutenants are preparing the launch of a new subscription formula meeting the internal code of Spartacus and aimed at an output in the spring of 2022. Its principle? Merge the benefits of PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now subscribers in one and the same subscription. The first is needed to play online for all PlayStation games and allows you to download some games each month at no extra cost while taking advice and 100 GB online storage, while the second gives access to a catalog of More than 800 games, essentially PS3 and PS4. In the case of PS4 games, the user has the choice between download the game on his console or play immediately in streaming.
Documents examined by Bloomberg suggest that Sony plans to keep the PlayStation Plus brand but to gradually remove PlayStation Now, can be read in the Bloomberg article. It must be said that despite its recent efforts (low price, improvement of the proposed games and streaming in 1080p), the PlayStation Now had the latest news reached 3.2 million subscribers last May, compared to 1.8 million one year earlier. A progression undoubtedly considered insufficient to continue playing on both tables as the manufacturer is currently doing it. The PlayStation Now therefore seems to disappear to strengthen the PlayStation Plus, which now has 47.2 million subscribers. Recall that each of the two subscriptions costs 60 euros per year.
Spartacus details may not yet be finalized, but the documentation examined by Bloomberg describes a three-level service. The first would include the existing benefits of the PlayStation Plus. The second would offer a wide catalog of PlayStation 4 games and, at Term, PlayStation 5. The third level would add extensive demos, streaming games and a library of classic PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP, PSP PP, details Bloomberg.
It is therefore a real change that would be in preparation in the PlayStation premises. To the point of clamoring on all the roofs that the answer to the Xbox Game Pass arrives? It will probably be necessary to study the proposal in more detail when it will be official. Until proven the opposite, Sony Interactive Entertainment is still far from being convinced of the need to place its big productions in a subscription as soon as they leave, a radical strategy with which Microsoft intends to snatch the victory in the battle of subscriptions, in Aiming for the PC as well as the consoles, not forgetting the cloud that allows to find the Xbox Game Pass catalog on mobile.
On the Sony side, PlayStation Now is currently only available in a limited number of countries (19), which could hinder the growth of its future all-in-one subscription, even though Bloomberg notes that Sony is in Investing to expand its efforts in cloud gaming. To this end, the Japanese group had established a strategic partnership with... Microsoft.
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