PlayStation Now slashed its asking price in half earlier this week, and it appears to have been enough of an incentive to make Sony's own President of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, sign up and check the service out for himself. We're sort of surprised that one of PlayStation's most recognisable faces wasn't already a member of the streaming service, but still, it's nice to know that figureheads are indeed engaging with their own products.
Revealed in a tweet, Yoshida states that he thought about downloading some PlayStation 4 games, presumably in order to grow his backlog, but instead he ended up streaming the remaster of the PS2 classic ICO. We don't blame him for sampling the service by playing one of the greatest games of all time, especially so when it turns out he's paying for the service himself.
If you want to join Shuhei Yoshida in checking out PlayStation Now, the service is currently available for £8.99/$9.99 a month or £49.99/$59.99 a year. And with titles such as God of War and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End now a part of the streaming package, it's certainly a persuasive price point indeed.
Have you taken advantage of PS Now's price drop in the same vein as Shuhei? Tell us which game you checked out first in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Its still incredible value at €99 a few big blockbusters and you get your moneys worth.
No price cut in Japan so far.
6980 yen (65 usd) per year.
Typical Sony.
Still not on my country, $60 a year seems good, I can buy sony 1st party exclusive day 1 while I’ll wait the rest of third party games on psnow. I think psnow value is so good that psplus seems overpriced now.
Game industry crash is nigh.
When your companies own president wasn't a subscriber, you knew it needed a rework.
The Canadian price drop was minor, and still not worth it for me since I have a huge backlog as it is anyways and so little playing time these days. So still a hard pass.
@Gatatog
Everybody knew it. Even Colin
@Gatatog Why would he subscribe when he would get every game for free............. I mean whats the point of being president if there are no perks.
Aka marketing...
Well, with ICO, the man has great taste in games.
I would see this as a ploy to convince people to get PSNow, but he didn’t use any jargon, highlighted a gem of a game and now I’m just imagining he is one of us gamers with too many games on his backlog to bother with PSNow until today.
I anticipate a $40/year sub on black friday so when that happens, its an automatic sub for me.
He had gamepass
Shopto are selling a year pass for £40 in the UK if anyone is still on the fence
@DrJames Lmao literally logged in to reply to that
I suspect that 700.000 subs number will be going up now.
@1kca all the best brother - happy friday
@blourf Isn't that the lowered price? It is down to $60~
Before it was way more.
He should get EVERYTHING(in Life to) for FREE! Because he is a GOD
@KeanuReaves
My mistake. It was the 3 month subscription that was around 6000 yen here before, I incorrectly remembered that that was for 12 months. Consumption tax just got increased here a bit at the beginning in October. I assumed Sony took advantage of that and spiked the prices at the same time.
Good catch. Thank you.
Dang. Well, no wonder people thought it was too expensive before. Even he didn't think it was worth it.
most people are not talking about the big feature of ps now... i am not referring to the streaming side of things because we all know it is not vey good. i am talking about being able to download ps4 games directly to your console and play the games as they were meant to be played with no performance issues. this feature alone could make the service viable to those who have no faith in the streaming aspect of the service. so for $80/year in canada, should you be able to get 3 or 4 AAA games out of the service, that alone would more than make up for the $80 asking price.
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