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Bloomberg is reporting that Sony will reveal its new Spartacus subscription service as soon as next week.
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If PS now is being absorbed into a new service I imagine all existing contracts will need re-negotiating, and any Bethesda games that were on there wont be coming back.
To be fair until the acquisition goes through theres nothing preventing sony from dealing with activision and getting games on their services i dont think.
The one biggest benefit for those that sub to both service.... NO MORE OVERLAP. This has been the biggest downside over the last 2 years when they tried to make Now more appealing. The games would eventually be former Plus games, or Plus would get former Now games. This is a huge benefit.
I smell 3 tiers, 1st being Ps Plus how it is now. 2nd tier you get most of Now catalog minus the streaming feature. 3rd tier is streaming, and added PS1/PS2 titles. It also will mark PS5 titles hitting the service, but literally expect like 5 at best lol.
Guessing NZ won't have access to the tier with PS Now like features. Which would suck.
Hopefully they have some good news to share on that front with the Spartacus announcements.
Hopefully they have some good news to share on that front with the Spartacus announcements.
By combining both services, and leaving the streaming to the highest tier, the downloadable piece can now finally reach countries that don't have Now currently. Of course this just limits the service to PS4 generation and (if they ever add it) PS5 catalog. Wishful thinking on my part.
Really excited to see how this turns out. Hopefully it's a great rival to Game Pass.
Could do but I'd imagine Microsoft would just outbid Sony on any deal knowing they'll most likely get the money back.
Could do but I'd imagine Microsoft would just outbid Sony on any deal knowing they'll most likely get the money back.
As a Plus and Now subscriber, looking forward to renewed investment into the services. They've both been decent over the years, just need renewed focus.
Even without new day 1 first party games, Sony has a pretty killer back catalogue and their services library should be really great. With as many games there are in these libraries, who really cares about day 1 stuff as long as their games eventually land in the service permanently.
Even without new day 1 first party games, Sony has a pretty killer back catalogue and their services library should be really great. With as many games there are in these libraries, who really cares about day 1 stuff as long as their games eventually land in the service permanently.
Maybe, however Activision is definitely starting to act like they're about to get acquired by Xbox. For example, starting next month Activision will publish Call of Duty in Japan, it's always been PlayStation. So maybe they'll act to ensure that Microsoft stays happy, even if Microsoft can't directly control them.
Isnt it that legally they cant be influenced by MS? So I cant imagine they would turn down one last sack of cash from Sony if offered.
I mean if they just say "no, we're about to get acquired" then legally that can be an issue. But, even Game Pass hasn't really had a lot of Activision games (if any), so they could just as easily deny them.
This is wrong. They can't sign any deal they want which would alter the company Microsoft wants to acquire. Activision can't sign their whole catalog to Sony for a subscription service while the acquisition is pending.
A subscription service where you don't own the content that you access while you have a valid subscription? That's nuts. Who does that?
Nvm you're already getting cooked, shoulda known everyone would pounce on it like I did lol
I'm really curious to see the details on this. I've never tried game streaming, mostly because of my isp, but the back catalogue of older systems sounds really cool. I hope they have an upgrade path for Plus subs like Xbox does.
Putting their games on subscription services doesn't seem to fit at all Activision's current strategy (as an independant publisher). Those numbers are quite telling.
Could change with Spartacus but I doubt there will be much support from Activision (if any).
They put only 2 games on subscription services so far (Black Ops III (for whatever reason the COD 2015 game was chosen) on the PS+ Collection and I couldn't find the 2nd game.
Activision has also put a lot of efforts remastering and selling games from their legacy library (Crash, Spyro, Tony's Hawk, Call of Duty, Diablo...).
We don't really know the terms of the acquisition agreement are.
At the bare minimum I imagine Activision aren't allowed to sell off assets before the deal closes or falls through.
It's a weird one where must behave in the best interest of the shareholders and without Microsoft influence, but they also can't change the company in a way that would fundamentally change the business from what Microsoft agreed to buy. That plus, I'm not sure anyone at Activision really wants to be the person who tells Microsoft they sold the rights to Sony after the deal was announced. Because the deal is public, there is that soft power in place.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a deal place for Activision on Spartacus which was singed before the Microsoft deal. Activision and Sony have been good buddies going back a good bit now and Spartacus has been in the works for a long while. If this was the case, yeah it wouldn't legal for Activision to sink that agreement just to please their future.
Sure I just dont see why they would if offered is all.
Wouldnt that only be if the deal prevents MS from putting their games on their own service even after the acquisition is expected to complete? If they dont do anything like that I dont think its altering the company.
In that case, I'm not too sure but I doubt Activision would make any new deals that would be against Microsoft's interests since that will be their new parent company very soon. I think someone already mentioned but they even took over the publishing of Call of Duty in Japan from Sony this month so I doubt they'll do any new deals imo.
This is a good point. If they have made a deal it wouldnt have been in the last few months before launch, it will have been done a long time ago most likely.
But as someone else pointed out what if the deal was already made? If they did want to make a deal it would have been made a while ago.
In that case they would honour it, I just meant any new deals.
Yeah thats fair. I can imagine doing so after the acquisition was announced would be tricky.
I hope it's a service where you get a Thank you! Message after purchasing any PlayStation product.
100% gonna start alternating between em as games I'm interested in release on each service
So it doesn't really do anything new it just combines 2 services that already exist
If you already subbed to both services you aren't gaining any new games
If you already subbed to both services you aren't gaining any new games
Only thing I'm worried about is if they use this as an opportunity to get rid of annual PS+ and start charging $10/m like Xbox wanted to do $120/yr.