PlayStation Now's Shadow Warrior 3 Experiment Could Be Sign of Things to Come
In a surprising yet not entirely unprecedented turn of events, Sony has announced that subscribers to PlayStation Now are in for a special treat on March 1. When Shadow Warrior 3 launches on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, Flying Wild Hog’s first-person shooter will also land on the subscription service on the same day. Even though that’s significant news by itself, there’s several reasons why the game’s arrival on PS Now could be a warm-up for even bigger things to come.
Over the last few months, credible rumors have suggested Sony is set to shake up its subscription services in the spring of this year. If these leaks are to be believed, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now will be merged and expanded in an attempt to compete directly with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass. Against that backdrop, Shadow Warrior 3’s arrival on PS Now becomes even more important. In many ways, the anticipated shooter’s release could be an experiment that ultimately leads to shaping the future of the PlayStation ecosystem going forward.
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While PlayStation fans have become accustomed to witnessing day-one launches like Rocket League andFall Guys on PlayStation Plus, the same can’t be said of Sony’s other subscription service. Since its debut in 2014, PlayStation Now has often been relegated to the background of the publisher’s online offerings. Even though big-name games like God of War and The Last of Us 2 have landed on the service, debuts like this usually only happen years after a game has hit the market at large. Over the last eight years, only a handful of games can subsequently claim to have launched day-in-date on PS Now.
Aside from Shadow Warrior 3’s imminent arrival on PlayStation Now, only two
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