PlayStation Now's All-You-Can-Play Subscription Service Launches Next Week

I really shudder to think how DOA 5 and SSFIV are going to handle over a streaming connection.

Otherwise it's nice to see such a large collection of AAA there and the subscription cost isn't bad but as someone that played most of what they wanted on PS3 it's not for me.

I believe I will be subscribing. I enjoy the service and $19.99 a month for unlimited games seems reasonable. Not everyone will feel the way I do but let it be said, it's not that bad for unlimited access to 100 plus games.

I think the value here obviously depends on how many games you plan to play. If you plan on going on a gaming bender for a month, then this would be the best way to do it. But if you just want to play one game, you'd obviously be better off either renting it from PS Now or just outright buying it. Probably the latter.

I certainly think this is a step in the right direction , though. It's a much more tempting proposal than anything that had been offered previously.

Much more appealing, but as Kell says you'd need to play a fair bit to get your monies worth... Now, can we have it in the UK please?

@k_andersen aye, there are a few games I'd like to play that I didn't get round to, one month should be enough. Its a decent service but I can't see it taking off really. It would also be nice to be able to pay some sort of fee to play PS3 games I already own on the network.

Not sure if this is for me or not yet but am looking forward to trying it out when available in the UK!

To me this is a great move by Sony - it is like Netflix but for games! There are some months when I do not use Netflix but I still pay to have it just in case I fancy watching something. It could be the same for this.
Can any one confirm that PS Now works in the UK if you log in on a US account or is it blocked by IP? Just a thought...

@get2sammyb The 3 month deal works at that price BTW

So thats why EA Access was given the boot, or at least the real reason.

There really should be free demo trial of one PS3 game so people could try if they can actually play streamed games without horrible input lag or bad picture quality.

@get2sammyb Personally I think the price point will be spot on once the collection of titles on offer is widened just a little more. Getting the 3 month option works out at about £10 a month, the same as services like Spotify, which I reckon for unlimited access to a large chunk of the PS3 back catalogue isn't bad at all.

If they properly prioritise which games they add to the service (pulling in all of the big exclusives first), then I can see this really taking off with the people who have switched from Xbox. Only concern is that Sony may shy away from doing that, as it could hurt sales of any PS4 remasters / collections they plan to throw together (such as the near inevitable Uncharted collection). It would be a shame to see them detract from their own service for the sake of some extra cash in the bank.

This has probably been talked to death, but imo this service is a big middle-finger to a lot of players(myself included) who already own most of these games and would have been nice after spending a lot of money on a new console to be able to play them, just like you play Ps1 and ps2 classics on ps3 or psp games on vita. It's their platform and I'm sure it can be done, but they chose the greedy path to ask you for money for stuff you actually paid for already, on top of that with a service that people don't trust working to good either. My point in all of this, all you guys who already paid hundreds of dollars for games, stop calling ps now "a deal", because it's not

calin, all you needed to do was to keep your old ps3, if you have such a big collection. That's what i do, but the PS3 does not get much love anymore more. This is a good deal, as it is convenient too. Especially when it comes to Vita and other platforms. But i am not sure i will not opt in... Liking my PS4 games

it's an intresting idea but I won't be using it after all I have my PS3 to play PS3 games (same as I have my PS1 & PS2 to play their respective games)

Being able to just stream some games from my PS4, Vita, or Vita TV rather than dealing with updating and connecting my PS3 sounds awesome. I'll admit that the prices do seem a TAD steep and accessing the games does take longer than I'd like... but it's a very promising start. I'd like to see some type of PS+ integration in the future.

The price seems fair but it's still a bit too much for me

@calin1010 problem is while PS1 and PS2 games could theoreticaly be emulated on PS4 the PS3 can't because they chose not to use the cell processor this time in order to make the PS4 a better and easier platform for first and third party developers to program for and because PS3 games are made to run on the cell it would have to be in the PS4 to make it backwards compatible but this would increase the price and make the console more expensive to the consumer (that's you and me)

I don't think the lack of PS3 compatibilty on the PS4 was Sony trying to be gready it was just a by-product of making a more developer friendly console

besides you don't have to use PSNow just use your PS3 to play your games because it's not a big problem having 2 consoles connected to your TV is it especialy as most TV's have more than 2 HDMI ports nowadays

YUMMY...All you can eat Buffet (my sort of Local Tikka place do a LOVELY Sunday Buffet...)
Er erm anyway sounds cool, just waiting for it to come to the UK.

Add Uncharted 1-3 and I might bite for a few months. However, my backlog of games is already so huge that I don't need to be paying $45 every 3 months for even more games.

I'ld say the price is fair for 100 games. Gamefly - FYI game disc rental service in the US - is $14.99 per month for 1 game out at a time, $22.99 for 2 games out at a time. Considering their long mail turnaround times this looks like a bargain even at $20 month. And as @ZeD said it's only $16 for the 3 month rental.

I tried the free beta on my PS3 and hated it though. My biggest complaint was the lack of permanent save files. If you played a game and like it and decided to buy it as either DL or disc you coudlnt' continue from your save point. This being PS3 games on a PS4 that may not be an issue, but it bothered me. And of course the lag, which on some games was horrendous.

I'd say for Xbox360 owners who have upgraded to PS4 and missed alot of these it may be worth a 3 month subscription for God of War, Uncharted and a couple of others.

And it does say "free trial" at the end of the video for those who want to test it out first before ponying up.

Will not be diving into this due to not having a great internet speed. If two people running Netflix in my house slows down the internet, then I can not imagine how streaming games will affect my gameplay. This is a step in the right direction for Sony though & hope they can make more money off of the PlayStation brand by including this on Smart TV's and tablets.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi You're right. I think the fact that Sony is only offering 1 and 3 month services (and not full 12 month ones like with plus) is because they aren't expecting people to stay permanently subscribed. Personally, it's the sort of thing I'm liable to use every so often, but I doubt I'd ever use it for longer than a month at a time.

When your internet connection barely hits 5mbps on a GOOD day, Streaming becomes less of a reality.

This is ridiculous. Apalling. Disgusting and a rip off. I alreqdy own close to a hundred ps3 games downloaded from psn, all bought and paid for but I'm not allowed them on the game starving ps4? I have to pay £13 A MONTH for that privilege? Bye bye sony

So let me get this straight. For roughly £13 I get access to 100 games that I can play as much as I want for a whole month? and EDF 2025 is one of them!? Bargain. Honestly, considering £10-£15 is the average price for a single decent preowned game in the UK, paying that much for access to 100 for a month seems good to me (plus I have 100mb fiber, so no connection issues there) and the genre range in the titles is decent too.

Then you realise Playstation Now doesn't even have a firm rollout or Beta set for the EU & you lose interest

Any idea when its out in the UK?

@rjejr yeah, I subscribe to boomerang rentals in the UK, about £10 a month for one disc per month but as many rentals as you please. Its not a bad deal, there are plenty of games I've no interest in buying but would like to try, I.e. rayman, telltales games, fary cry 4 etc etc

If they add ps2, ps1 and ps4 games, and I cant use psTV for it, I buy it.

I'd certainly consider it whenever it comes to the UK. Plenty of great PS3 games that I missed, especially for the last couple of years.
Hopefully the UK pricing will be as listed above.

I would love this if the library were extraordinarily deep. I'm still holding onto my 60GB FAT model PS3 to keep playing my old PS2 games.

If I didn't have to do that anymore, then yeah, I'd use this service.

Oh this is awesome

Very interested, but I'm gonna wait for PS Vita support and a PS+/Now bundle price. My at home gaming time has dropped in the last few years and its not worth it, to me, without mobility.

Hmmm. Interesting. If there were enough games I wanted to play, I'd definitely give it a shot.

What about Vita? Will this be for that too or just a PS4 thing?

Not sure how well my internet would work for something like this, so I will probably not give it a go for the time being. However, I feel some will really enjoy this.

$44.99 for only three months? No, just no. It this was $50 per year like PS Plus was, then perhaps I'll be tempted. But this will probably flop anyway.

Are we able to unlock trophies?

Price puts me off I'm afraid, I pay a yearly fee for PSN that's enough for me.

I do worry that this is just going to add to the strain on PSN, which isn't the best as it is.....

Any word about us in the uk??

I think the pricing is fair but there would have to be a good choice of games to keep me interested in using the service long term

Biggest problem for me is the lag. I have an extremely high connection speed yet games still lag quite a bit. Even a little is enough to drive a person crazy. It's a good start, but they're gonna have to fix all of the lag before I consider paying money. That's why I don't use remote play with Vita, and this lags worse than that.

Tried and the games lags a bit :/ if they can manage to give me a chance to download the game to my HDD i would be on it (althou i still think its a little over priced )

I wonder how all of these games are being emulated! I'd be more interested of it fixed some of the horrendous framerate and resolution issues on some of my favorite games (ie Jurassic The Hunted, Drakengard 3). Based on the streaming issues I see people are having, the opposite seems to be true...

This isn't for me. I didn't have a PS3 and there was only a few games over the lifetime of the PS3 I wanted to play that were PS exclusive and I didnt play on my 360. Chances are they will come to PS4 anyhow. It seems too expensive for my casual gaming hands. I take ages to finish a game and feeling rushed just wouldnt sit well. A yearly sub in or around the cost of PSplus would feel more like Im not getting ripped off. Remember these are still older games. Their revenue line is finished. It really doesn't need to be so expensive for a short rental time. You can only play one game at any given time and there is only so many free hours in any persons day. My opinion is mute anyhow tho as Im UK based so it ain't available.

Put this on Vita, with PS2 games too, and in the UK, and I would consider it. Ps3 games work for me as I went from 360 to Ps4. I like the idea, just not convinced on the cost.

Just as my 60gb fatty gets it's second YLOD, they decide to release their ps3 streaming! Decisions, decisions...

Not interested in the slightest. May be good for the odd month now and then when it reaches the shores of Albion but can't honestly see me ever touching it. Intrigued to see if the "lets port every PS3 game to PS4 because suckers will buy it" plan continues with this around. Clue: it will.