Right now PS+ has ~47 million subscribers and PS Now has ~3.2. It's just a guess since we have limited data to go by, but I'm guessing it's a reboot of their subscription services. Since Tier 2 can offer the download option with no streaming then that means they're not restricted by the streaming infrastructure, meaning they have virtually unlimited capacity, meaning they can go big on their content offerings. Tier 3 is likely to add all the streaming stuff. Tier 2 is likely to be something akin to Plus + Now, but no streaming. My guess is Tier 1 is likely to be something akin to the current PS Plus. Presumably they have the potential to go big here because of the 3 tiers of Spartacus. So my guess is they decided it wasn't worth dumping the money into expanding the existing PS Now infrastructure (the pandemic didn't help too since we know it prevented them from launching the service in India in 2020), and they opted to keep it in a holding pattern until Spartacus was ready. All while knowing that they're in the planning stages for PS Now's successor with Spartacus. Now it becomes a chicken and egg scenario, if they want to expand their subscriber count then they have to put far more desirable content on the service, but that would also mean having to invest to increase their capacity count to match. Of course we don't know how much (if at all) they may have expanded in those 2 years. We know from a couple years ago that PS Now had an ultimate capacity of 5 million subscribers with the potential to expand as needed. Which I guess makes some sense if you break it down. They put enough content on the service to keep it going, but not enough to make its subscriber count balloon out. Well it does get the occasional banger title, they had TLOU2 on it up until recently.īut yeah, my theory has been that PS Now has been on cruise control for the past couple years while they prepare its successor.
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