PlayStation confident in PS Plus strategy as it readies PS5 game streaming
PlayStation is testing cloud streaming with PS5 games, and will make it available to PS Plus Premium subscribers.
The service will include PS5 titles from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Game Trials, as well as 'supported' digital PS5 games that players already own.
Players will only be able to stream these games to PS5 consoles for now, reveals Nick Maguire, who is the company's vice president and global head of subscriptions.
"We're very excited about it," he tells GamesIndustry.biz. "I don't have any more to share about it today because we're in the testing phase and will provide more updates once it's ready."
Outside of PS5 game streaming, Sony has announced it is adding more games to the service this month. This includes Far Cry 6, Shredder's Revenge, Rogue Legacy 2 and Inscryption on PS4 and PS5. It's also adding Soulstice on PS5, plus Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Killing Floor on PS4. Elsewhere, WWE 2K23 on PS4 is launching within Game Trials, and fan-favourite PSP game Killzone Liberation is joining the firm's Classics range.
All of this news comes just as people's annual subscriptions are up for renewal. PS Plus relaunched in June last year, and featured three different subscription tiers. This effectively saw the company merge its two subscription offerings: PS Plus, which featured some games but was mostly about online play, and PlayStation Now, which featured a catalogue of games that users could download or stream.
Maguire tells us the service has been a hit, highlighting stats such as 'a billion hours of gameplay since that catalogue launched'. He also says that users of the service are, on average, spending seven times as much time on PS Plus than they did with PlayStation Now in the year
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