Fans of every artist except Taylor Swift will be able to treat their ears to some premium audio streaming on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 this year, as Sony has teamed up with Spotify to launch a new PlayStation Music service. This will deploy in 41 markets around the world soon, and will bring with it all 30 million songs and 1.5 billion playlists currently available as part of the digital platform's award-winning offering.
"We know how important music is to our community of gamers, and this partnership combines the best in music with the best in gaming," explained Sony Network Entertainment chief Eric Lempel. "PlayStation Network users will enjoy the convenience of linking your accounts to Spotify, making it easy to sign-up with your existing ID and subscribe to Spotify's Premium service. You can also use Spotify while playing games on the PS4."
As a result of this new initiative, Music Unlimited will shut down on 29th March, though active subscribers will get a free month's service from 28th February through until its closure by way of thanks. Sony's suggesting that there'll be "exclusive" benefits for those who subscribe to Spotify via PlayStation Music, but it's not going into details just yet. Either way, this sounds like an enormous coup for the company.
[source blog.us.playstation.com, via blog.eu.playstation.com]
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now you got me interested Sony.
Glad I just happen to use spotify for my music and play my games on Sony consoles. Win-win.
Now they should just get Steam to run the PS store and all will be well if only...
Wow! Didn't see this one coming.
Shake off on the Taylor Swift references, Sammy.
As for this. So many "PlayStation" services Sony are creating, one would almost call it milking. Can't help but notice the heavy reliance.
Yeah, this is huge news. Came out of nowhere, too!
WOOHOOO!!! Thanks so much for this Sony. This may not be a big deal to some, but for me, this is the best news i've heard all week so far. listening to "Sea Change", while playing a relaxing game, sounds like pure bliss.
@Punished_Boss_84 Was just chatting about this with @ShogunRok. I think it's much better this way. Was really inconsistent when they had stuff like 'Qriocity' and what not - stick it all under one banner in my opinion. It's clear that PlayStation as a brand is becoming increasingly important to Sony, so why not use it?
Unfortantely I like to buy my music so this is useless.
@get2sammyb
Video Unlimited has just been rebranded to PlayStation Video, so it is clearly working.
I've looking at Spotify for awhile now but haven't had the devices to make use of it, can anyone tell me what it's like and would they recommend it?
@adf86 It's basically the market leader when it comes to audio streaming. In other words: if you have any interest in streaming music, this is the one to get.
No big loss in not having Taylor Swift, it's telling that she shares co-writer credits for pretty much all of her songs......no talent, just a pretty face for suckers.
The PS4 is getting Spotify while on the other side Microsoft is gearing up to put Windows 10 (Windows 10!) on the X1. For PS4 owners this is great as Spotify is the best music service I have tried (I really want to like Google All Access but it's just not as good as Spotify). In the grander scheme of things though this is a relatively small achievement.
@adf86 Assuming the PS Spotify is a fully featured app then the positives of Spotify over other music streaming services is that it has a strong community of customised Playlists. It also an adequate 'Radio' service and its music discovery tools are better IMO. You should expect the majority of your favourite music to be there and very quick load times regardless of your internet speed.
It looks like it's not just the subscription model, which is awesome!
@DrClayman Amazing.
Noooooooo! I actually gave music unlimited a shot and I love it in the car on my way to work. And I absolutely hate spotify. This is really terrible news for me.
@ztpayne What are the features of Music Unlimited that you like that Spotify doesn't have?
Like @Bad-MuthaAdebisi I prefer my music owned and actually physical. Thanks but no thanks. Not like it's a massive chore to put on a record or CD before or during a game, especially when a lot of the acts I like aren't on Spotify. And no, Taylor Swift isn't one of them.
Sure millions of others will find it useful though. Would be nice if one day they could integrate it into games, like a radio station on GTA5 being a Spotify playlist you've made.
@eLarkos Thank you mate, that's helped a lot.
Cool !
I LOVE PlayStation MORE Sounds cool for the people who use it. I am just happy with the USB Music player really we got now. I don't need anything else Music wise now for the PS4. Hopefully the next Firmware will be out soon with more lovely stuff
This is awesome! i already use spotify for my music needs. perfect!
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