This PlayStation Now on PlayStation Plus Rumour Is Clutching at Straws

Well, lets be real. Yes the price isnt increasing in the US. But it did last year. The rest are playing catch up.

Remember people here saying they have many MANY subscriptions? Sony could just be consolidating. Itd be a smart move, get their two products out at once.

Because PSNow didnt exactly set the world on fire and people most likely dont clamour at the prospect regardless of how cool it is. So why not incentivise? Say its included. Boom.

More people use it and they can push for this digital only future you keep clamouring fir.

Most importantly, if they were adding such a feature when increasing the price, why wouldn't they say it when, you know, they increased the price?!

@DrClayman Because its a conversation for their stakeholders.

No wait, its a contractual responsibility to their users.

No, wait...theyll think about it.

Companies aint the brightest bunch.

@get2sammyb Never said it would happen. Dont get angry with me. Im just throwing some conjecture out there.

And damage control? For a price hike? Mate...this is a company that rolled out a $600 price tag and expected everyone to lap it up. You could not convince me they saw backlash coming.

PS Now as part of PS Plus and finally in Russian region could have alleviated my financial demotivation of having to pay about half the console price yearly... but I admittedly lost any other trace of interest in the service the moment it was axed on Vita. Playing it on PS4 would be quite a streamsception for me, but I can BET it wouldn't run via Remote Play to begin with.

So much for the last chance of more PS3 games on the go... and people wonder why I raise my every extremity in vote for as many 7th gen Switch ports as possible.

@get2sammyb Fun to speculate though.

No telling what Sony will do. Itll either be brilliant or have you waiting for basic features for years. Truly is a lottery.

I wouldn't believe what that fraud Tidux says ( he is far from a insider) PS plus hike is a joke
But you have a choice where you buy you PlayStation Plus sub ( mine is stacked till 2021

@get2sammyb Lmfao could not agree more with you there Sammy

@DLB3 I hear they've had free pizza delivered to their addresses every weekend, too. This is for the players, after all.

Had a few arguments with people over this. They think that the advert isn't an advert and it's showing you what you get because it's in that section. It's all very stupid, they wouldn't give you a £120+ A year Service for a tenner. Plus, like you said, if loads of people try and access it then it will clog up the system.

I find it very silly how people think anything drastically will change. All that's happened is we have received 7 years worth on inflation in one go as we have never had an increase. The way people are moaning about it though, you would think it's going to force people to live on the street due to having no money left after paying it.

I'm surprised this didn't come last summer due to a certain event beginning with Br and ending in exit.

Sammy your tone in this article just seems a little bitter. It is after all just a rumour and you DID ask us to discuss why we think the hype is happening and what we'd expect for our buck etc. Chill out man

@get2sammyb Were you on the old secret cough medicine last night/this morning?

Your article and subsequent posts comes over as an alcohol fuelled rant given the time it was posted Surely you've got better things to do on a Sat night at 1AM than get wound up about what a bunch of kids are speculating/bullsh*****g about on the internet?

Only wind up merchants and unrealistic, gullible fools would seriously consider that a relatively small £10 per year price hike would now somehow include a service that charges around £140 for a year currently.

Hope the hangover isnt too bad this morning wee man.

I have actually heard, from a source, that they will be releasing upcoming exclusives as early access for plus subscribers so we can play last of us 2 etc early. You also get Neil Druckmann's email address to send comments on the game.

Admittedly this source is me and i have no industry connections or clue and I have just dropped a tab of acid but look at the signs people.

@get2sammyb Our american high quality swiss cheese has maybe one or 2 holes in a slice. But the real question is why does swiss cheese have holes in it anyway? Why are there mega bubbles in my swiss but not in my cheddar or provolone? Who is making the bubbles? Is it a business tactic? Or is is simply tom foolery and utter nonsense? Are the bubbles a joke? I'm just gonna call it what I want and say it's some bum sleeping in the cheese tank, drowning and blowing their last breath, making the sour bum flavor that it gives. Now every cheese factory has a bum waiting to sleep in a "home" only to find out they will be drowned to death in a swiss cheese tank and turned into flavoring. Why do I pay more for the high quality swiss cheese even tho there is just a bum in it? Science, It's just the way the world works.

hey while the chances of it are EXTREMELY remote you have to admit IF it was added it would be awesome wouldn't it

At best, I could see Sony offering PS Now at a discounted monthly fee for PS+ subscribers - Maybe £10 a month instead of £12 (or whatever the rates are) in a way to boost PSNow subscriptions but to add it in as 'part' of the PS+ is ridiculous.

Any US citizens who think this is now bringing EU in line with them is being ridiculous too - the $10 increase you had brought your prices more in line with us back then - the £ may not be as strong as it was but its still worth more than $1. Not criticising or bragging but just stating a fact.

Its this Exchange Rate that also screws us over in the UK with Digital Store prices too. The RRP may well be $60 in the US but that doesn't equate to £60 for a Game. Its not that different in the Xbox Store either in a lot of cases, but at least 'Gold', at least at the moment, is cheaper and, well apart from July and August, has generally had the better games to offer.

I think if the IGC games had been more consistent, a longer history of offering big name AAA releases, and Sony came out and said 'we need to increase the PS+ to continue bringing AAA games and maybe even more - like maybe 2 a month some months', I think that maybe would be a bit easier to take. Also by having that 'history' where people have generally been happy with the IGC, it may have encouraged more to subscribe - even though they may have had little interest in online gaming.

I know that a good number of PushSquare members are content with the 'Indie Game Collection' most months, but there are also a lot that aren't, a lot that feel forced into Subscribing purely to access all their games and modes. For them, a 25% increase is hard to take - especially if they don't buy Digital, don't own a PS3 or Vita, and have no interest in 95%+ of the games for PS4 that are offered.

@adf86 Sammy was right though to be fair 😉

Maybe for that extra increase they'll let you choose say, 5 games a month to stream from PSNow instead of the whole library? That is of course just an idea of how they could do it without devaluing PSNow completely.

@BLP_Software "Itll either be brilliant or have you waiting for basic features for years. Truly is a lottery."

Wait, are we talking about Sony or Nintendo

@RedMageLanakyn both. Different features missing and different awesome for each though.

@RedMageLanakyn

Thats not actually not that bad of an idea and would maybe get some people hooked in that way.

Stream one game a month for free if you have plus.

To be fair there IS something about PSNow on the Browsers PS+ section BUT it's just an advertisement banner i think

@adf86 not even when it's Newcastle

@RedMageLanakyn

Well, when Sammy said "the notorious industry nobody who’s better known for the guesswork he gets wrong rather than right" I thought he was talking about Pachter

@Turniplord to be fair the rumor which the article left out is you would get two PS4 games like it's been plus two ps now games and two movies each month so no you wouldn't be getting the full ps now experience. It's probably not true but if it was that would def be cool

Maybe wait and see. I know what is going to happen in a few weeks a lot of people are gonna say this is what Sony promised and there will be a massive uproar about nothing all based on rumours.