Guglielmo Basile/Unsplash The elephant in the roomīefore we can get to why PS Now is better than you might think, I do have to acknowledge the faults. With Game Pass being touted as the all-time greatest service in gaming and how Sony “needs some way to compete,” I think it’s time someone who is a dedicated user of PS Now tells you why it’s way better than you think. After giving it some thought and listening to the general discourse, there’s actually a lot of reasons PS Now is overlooked, but very few of them are actually good reasons, or even true in some cases. It’s quietly gained 3.2 million subscribers as of March 2021, which isn’t all that much when you compare it to the number of PS+ subscribers but is still a substantial number.Īs a subscriber since 2018, I’m sitting here today in 2021, wondering why people aren’t singing the praises of this service like I am. The thing is, after that initial purchase push, Sony has been pretty silent about PS Now. Sony acquired the service formerly known as Gaikai in 2012 and transformed it into its very own exclusive streaming service that it’s been working on to this day. Yes, we had plenty of other attempts with services like OnLive (which I also tried back in 2010), but none ever had the weight of a massive corporation behind it.
PlayStation Now was the first major step in game streaming services.
