Trending News|March 31, 2014 08:56 EDT
PlayStation Now Beta Sign Up: PS4 and PS3 Owners Sent Trial Emails by Sony
PlayStation Now was announced at the beginning of the month, and so far the the exact release date has not been released. It has been speculated it will arrive sometime before 2015, and then release globally early next year because of Sony's weaker broadband connection in Europe, reported IGN.
This new service will allow players to rent games online and play them directly on their console much like Netflix streaming. IGN reported, it could possibly be between $4.99 and $5.99 to rent a streamed PS3 game. The Gaikai website showed a picture featuring Uncharted 3 and Far Cry 3 with little blue PS Now triangles and a price next to them. See that image here.
IGN reported it is unclear how long these rented games will be available for, and whether the price of the listed games is correct or not.
In other news, Sony recently announced more than half of their PS4 sales have resulted in their customers also buying a PS Plus subscription.
"All the 4.2 million PS4s that have already moved into the hands of consumers, more than half of the people that have now gotten their hands [on] the PS4 have actually signed up for PS Plus service, which bodes very well for us," said Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai in a conference call, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha.
Polygon is reporting that this figure remains unclear if the different types of subscriptions are factored in. There was a free 30-day trial, and now there is currently a yearly, three month, and one month version of PS Plus.