

Since then, Sony has brought some big games like The Last of Us Part II to PS Now for a limited time.īy the end of Sony's 2020 financial year, there were only 3.2 million PS Now subscribers. One of the biggest complaints we had about the service when we reviewed it again in 2019 was the lack of notable games.

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Players were only able to access PS Now games via the cloud until 2018, when they were able to download some PS4 and PS2 titles to their console. PlayStation Now was one of the earliest major game subscription services when it debuted in 2015, but it had a fairly tepid response. As for cloud gaming (a category Luna also falls into), there's NVIDIA's GeForce Now and Google Stadia, and even Samsung has cloud gaming ambitions. EA and Ubisoft have subscription services, Amazon launched Luna last year and Netflix added games to its existing plans. All of Bethesda's games (save for a couple of timed PS5 console exclusives like Deathloop) are on Game Pass, and future Bethesda titles like Starfield might not come to PlayStation at all.Īlthough Game Pass would likely be Sony's biggest competitor in the game subscription market, it'll be up against several other major companies. For one thing, Microsoft bought Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media this year. We just don't see that as sustainable."īut the landscape has shifted since Ryan's remarks.

These games cost many millions of dollars, well over $100 million, to develop. Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan said last year that the company wouldn't "go down the road of putting new release titles into a subscription model. It's not clear whether Sony plans to bring its first-party exclusives to the service on their release date, as Microsoft does on Game Pass. However, those plans may not be set in stone.
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The third and highest tier would include cloud gaming, expanded demos and, akin to Nintendo Switch Online, a bunch of older PS1, PS2, PS3 and even PSP games. The second level would add a "large catalog" of PS4 titles, with PS5 games joining later.
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According to documents viewed by Bloomberg, the lowest tier would effectively be PlayStation Plus as it is now. Sony may not yet have finalized how Spartacus will work, but there could be three tiers to the service. It seems Sony will kill off PlayStation Now, but keep the PlayStation Plus branding. Microsoft plans to make game streaming sticks for TVs too. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate allows players to delve into more than 100 Xbox titles via the cloud on consoles, PC, phones and tablets. It's unclear whether players would be able to access it on other devices, though the report notes Sony is putting more resources into cloud gaming. The service, which is codenamed Spartacus, would likely be available on PS4 and PS5 for a monthly fee. The company is planning to merge PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into a new offering, which is expected to debut this spring, according to Bloomberg. Xbox Game Pass has been a hit for Microsoft, and it seems Sony is preparing to respond with its own version of an all-in-one game subscription service.
