Game Pass Rival From Sony Approaching? Leak Reveals Details
Streaming, online features, and classic titles from the PlayStation catalog - that's what the service known as Project Spartacus is supposed to offer, which will supposedly replace PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now.
Since months there have been rumors about Sony's alleged response to Microsoft's Game Pass service, but so far these have not translated into any official information. However, if we are to believe Jeff Grubb from Venture Beat, the release of Project Spartacus could be very close.
Project Spartacus - the successor to PS Plus and PS Now
The journalist shared the information during the latest episode of Grubbsnax podcast (via VGC). Grubb speculates that the debut of the new service isn't too far away and that "something will happen" on the matter later this month.
However, Grubb stressed that he's not necessarily thinking of an event that Sony will share with the world. Rather, he's referring to Sony reaching some sort of "internal milestone" in work on the project. Nevertheless, this would herald the imminent release of Project Spartacus, which would coincide with Bloomberg's announcement that the service will debut in the spring.
Essential, Extra, and Premium - Sony's three subscription tiers
Back in December, Bloomberg agency reported that Project Spartacus will offer three subscription levels. Jeff Grubb revealed new information on this subject.
- Sony is to split the new service into Essential, Extra and Premium subscriptions, with subscription prices set (for now) at $10, $13 and $16 per month respectively.
- Essential will be nothing more than the current version of PlayStation Plus, enabling us to download select games for free and play them online.
- If we choose Extra, we'll get an additional option to download 250-300 games, most likely from the current PlayStation Now catalog.
- Premium will add the ability to play trial versions, as well as a game streaming service and "classic" titles. The latter probably refers to games from PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PSP, as mentioned by Bloomberg.
As always, we remind you to be wary of any unofficial reports. Sony still hasn't confirmed the existence of Project Spartacus, let alone given any details about the alleged service.
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Graduated with a master's degree in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw with a thesis dedicated to this very subject. Started his adventure with gamepressure.com in 2015, writing in the Newsroom and later also in the film and technology sections (also contributed to the Encyclopedia). Interested in video games (and not only video games) for years. He began with platform games and, to this day, remains a big fan of them (including Metroidvania). Also shows interest in card games (including paper), fighting games, soulslikes, and basically everything about games as such. Marvels at pixelated characters from games dating back to the time of the Game Boy (if not older).
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