The rumor is finally true - PS+ and PSNow merger

[DonFerrari]

ConservagameR said:

twintail said:

Right now, Now is random like this. One thing though is that Sony makes it clear from game month announcements how long it remains in the service. 

Presumably, this restructuring is designed to get better deals for the service. 

I haven't dealt with PS Now so I was unaware of this. Streaming hasn't been an option for me until recently but I'm still not interested in it. I prefer my physical games played natively on a console for the most part.

With both services being brought together (more so in Premium), this leads me to believe the top 2 tiers remain more like Now, with games rotating in and out. The only question left will be what type of games and how often?

I'd actually guess Sony will quite likely hold back on the first party as much and as long as possible. For someone like me, if many first party titles landed in Plus Extra for $99 per year, 1 year after their launch, Sony would end up losing quite a bit of money from me, and that's just me. Maybe it will take 2-3 years before most Sony first party titles make it into the service then. That's something I couldn't wait around for.

Yet if I'm correct that games like Death Stranding and the Spiderman games will be on Extra from the get go, those alone should be worth it for me to jump up to Extra. I haven't played them yet and plan to eventually. Adding 400 other games on top of that, almost makes it a no brainer actually that I should sign up for Extra. At least for a year once my existing Plus sub runs out. That'll give me a year anyway to asses whether its worth keeping or downgrading. I have a hard time believing it would be a waste of $40 more any way you slice it, just to try.

From the way it is worded on their blog (and sure I may be understanding wrong) the PS5 titles sure will be a rotation, PS4 most likely as well but PS1,2,3 and PSP will be added and not removed afterwards (but I also think it will be a small and constant inclusion, if there is rotation perhaps it will just be temporary because if there is effort to port there would be no good reason to toss that in the toilette afterwards, of course if they keep standalone sales them it is more likely the rythm of entry will be higher but removal also).