Sony pushes cloud game Blu-ray player will support PS Now


Earlier today, PS North America’s official blog announced the Sony Cloud Games customization service “PS Now”. Five games including “Uncharted 3” and “Ninja Dragon Sword Sigma” will be added in April 2015.


Newly Supported Five Games

At the same time, it also announced that all new Blu-ray players in the United States in 2015 (as well as some Sony TVs listed in the United States and Canada in 2014) will support the use and purchase of “PS Now”, which means that no gaming machine is required. Play to more than 100 PS3 games currently supported by the service.



The new Blu-ray player model numbered BDP-5500 on the official store page indicates support for PS Now.

In fact, as early as this year's CEA2015 conference in January, Sony announced the support of "PS Now" for these two devices, but did not expect it to be ready in a few months, much to the expectation of the media and players.

"PS Now" is a cloud game service that Sony currently only operates in North America. Players do not need to download games. They only need to subscribe to the related services and the network bandwidth (5MB/s) that the service requires, and then they can pass PS4 and other devices. Play to the PS3 game running on the cloud server.

Prior to being formally launched on January 13, 2015, PS Now experienced nearly a year of various tests in North America. Currently, only PS4 consoles and newly announced Blu-ray players and some Sony TVs (planned to support the first half of 2015 Samsung Smart TV) officially operates on three types of equipment. Officials said that they will announce more device support information in the next few months (PS3, PSV, PSV-TV, and some PS TVs are currently undergoing public testing of PS Now. Not officially launched.


Sony staff member Peter Jamshidi replied that netizens will start subscription service on PSV as soon as possible

In accordance with PS Now’s initial vision, the service will eventually correspond to various devices such as PS4, PS3, PSV, PSV-TV, smart TVs, and even tablet PCs and smart phones. Although it is still a long way from this goal, progress is still very high. obviously.


This illustration of the PS Now target device is widely circulated

This service costs $19.99 for a single month and $44.99 for a single season, and new users can try it free for 7 days. Players can use more than 100 PS3 games in the database for unlimited use during the rental period. In addition to the newly announced works, the first-line masterpieces such as "The American Doom" and "God of War" series have already been included.


I believe that the game's support list will be more abundant

Sony recently made frequent moves in the cloud gaming arena. Some time ago, it had just acquired the cloud game company OnLive. Today, it also supports Blu-ray players as an unexpected device. It is clear that it hopes to gain a firm foothold in this frontier.

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