Sony’s new tiered PlayStation subscription could be announced next week

destructoid.com:

Several months ago, there were rumblings of a new (but seemingly familiar) PlayStation subscription service with different tiers — you might remember hearing the codename, Spartacus, which has since lived on in forum posts, threads, and comments. According to a Bloomberg report, Sony could announce this expanded service as soon as next week.

As the story goes, this new subscription will combine PlayStation Plus — our gateway to “free” PS4/PS5 games and online multiplayer — as well as PlayStation Now — an on-demand game service with cloud streaming and downloads, depending on the platform.

But more than just consolidating these current plans, this new service will have “multiple tiers offering catalogs of modern games and classics from older PlayStation eras,” as Bloomberg puts it. And according to sources, we can expect a “splashy lineup of hit games from recent years,” which sure sounds like something Sony would want to lead with.

I’m not expecting anything as comprehensive as Game Pass — and on that front, it sounds like day-one releases for Sony’s big-hitters like God of War Ragnarök aren’t on the table here, per Bloomberg’s sources — so we’ll see. “Extended demos” are potentially interesting as a perk, but I can’t say that’ll move the needle for me, personally.

Of course, for some of us, it’s going to come down to those potential legacy PlayStation games, and how much it’ll cost to play them on a modern platform. Wider access to Sony’s amazing back-catalog is the major piece that’s missing from PlayStation for me right now. As a paying PlayStation Plus member (for I don’t even want to know how many years now), dipping back into the PS1, PS2, and even PS3 library could get me to pay more. Could. It’s really going to