We have some exciting news: PlayStation Now subscriptions will be coming to PS3 later this May! Now you’ll be able to play a huge library of more than 100 hit PS3 games on PS4 and PS3, as well as select Sony Blu-ray players and TVs, all for one monthly price. That’s an incredible number of games to binge on — and of course, you can play your games across devices with cloud saves.
Look out for PS Now subscriptions coming to PS3 on May 12th, and if you haven’t tried PlayStation Now yet, this is a perfect time to start your free 7-day trial.
The subscription will be coming to more devices soon, and will be adding new games monthly so you always have something fresh to play. Without further ado, here are this month’s new titles:
Fat Princess
Rescue your beloved princess through teamwork in this comic medieval battle royale. There’s a catch, though — the other team has been feeding her magical cake, making her harder to escort back to your castle. Choose from five distinct character classes and switch at any time to best help your team. Charge head first into battle, heal teammates as they break through enemy lines, and upgrade your team and the castle defenses as you work with your team to save your princess.
F1 2014
Feel the power of new turbocharged Formula One cars in the most accessible Formula 1 video game yet, including a new driver evaluation system to adjust the game to your level, shorter career options, and new Very Easy mode. F1 2014 features all the cars, drivers and circuits from the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship including new tracks in Russia and Austria.
Sanctum 2
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to one of the first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence. In Sanctum 2, you will utilize elements from multiple gameplay genres to succeed. Construct towers and walls during the building phase before the enemies attack, then jump into the fray and blast everything to pieces in FPS mode. You can progress through the single-player campaign yourself, or play with up to four friends in co-op to discover the secrets of the planet LOEK III.
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Step into a Dynasty Warriors experience unlike any other. Up to four friends can team‐up for a wide range of heroic action‐packed quests. Become one of history’s greatest warriors and work as a team to conquer heavily‐armed fortresses, infiltrate enemy strongholds and more. Spectacular battles await!
Farming Simulator
Farming Simulator will challenge you to take on the role of a modern day farmer. Animal husbandry, crops, sales… It’s up to you to manage and grow your own farm in two huge environments: typical European and American environments. Progress in your career to complete different missions and control more than a hundred farming vehicles!
That’s a wrap on the new games for May! We’ll bring you more titles next month, and in the meantime, you can check out a full list of all the games now in the PlayStation Now Game Streaming Subscription at PlayStation.com.
Now if only we could play downloadable / arcade titles that were available to play on PS3 on a PS4.
what about the games that we are already own and we`re already playing on PS3? will be able to add them to our accounts and play them on a ps4 console through this PS Now service? as Sony stated in the very beginning of announcing this service…
@DA3NAPPUX As you already pointed out, backwards compatibility would have significantly increased manufacturing costs of the PS4. I think, that your $599 for a BC PS4 is a realistic launch price.
From a provider view, if you watch a show for 1 hour on Netflix, it would be much cheaper than playing a game for 1 hour on PS Now. The biggest part of costs for Netflix will be the licensing. The biggest part of costs (by far) on PS Now will be costs for the hardware/hosting, and in total much higher than for video streaming. And for this reason, I don’t think we consumers would get any significant price reduction because we have purchased a game already.
However, as cloud infrastructures are getting cheaper, PS Now sessions will get cheaper, too. Sony made investments into PS Now and made valuable experiences for the future. Certainly, the excellent live streaming, Share Play, and Remote Play features are just the first offsprings of their Gaikai / PS Now investments.
From a business perspective, PS Now investments made a lot of sense I think. If I wouldn’t have a PS3, I might buy the service occasionally – if it launches in Europe that is ;-)
DA3NAPPUX said: “Sony messed up by deciding that backwards compatibility was not such a great thing for a console to have.”
No, they WOULD HAVE messed up by catering to such a small demographic, including hardware for 4 different consoles under the hood, pricing the PS4 out of range for the majority of customers and letting their competition run away with the dominant market share. They decided correctly. There comes a point when maintaining backwards-compatibility is no longer feasible, both financially and in principle, from a resource standpoint… not to mention projections and forward-thinking for survival in the industry. YOU GUYS messed up by not keeping your PS3, PS2, and PS1, and now that your gamble backfired, you’re looking to point the finger.
“A lot of us gamers that proved loyal to the PS line of consoles and games since day one in 1995 still have that certain nostalgic factor of holding on to our collection of games that we all know too well, can only be immortalized in their original, disc formats.”
If you were really THAT loyal, you’d still have the original consoles to match those discs and the state of PS Now wouldn’t be an issue to you.
“…made perfect sense in asking just how can the subscription be justified when the players already “own” copies of games (that they actually want to play…), whether it be in disc or digital version.”
They can still play them on the original consoles. Nothing is stopping that.
“Someone please enlighten me as to why I need to pay the premium fee only to be told to wait because they are currently “adding” to the online catalog and even then there’s no assurance that hard-hitting, exclusive titles (Best Hits anyone?) will make it on there.”
You don’t “need to” anything. The service is entirely optional. Any game you really want that bad, you probably already have. If you’re waiting for a certain title to show up on PS Now, you can wait until it shows up before you pay. Where you got the idea you had to “pay-then-wait” is a mystery to me.
rudetoy on May 4th, 2015 at 7:31 pm said: “Now, I have dozens and dozens of + PS3 titles that I can’t play at all”
You can play them just fine on a PS3. Just buy a new one. The repeating monthly cost of PS Now would eventually surpass what you’d pay for a new PS3 anyway, so, just like the other guy, PS Now shouldn’t even be an issue to you. Buying a new PS3 would be the best way for you to go.
“if Sony wants to keep its customers, it has to reward them for previous purchases, not PENALIZE them. To have to pay for a game multiple times is ridiculous.”
They’re not punishing you. Silly choice of words. You already received what you paid for. End of transaction. Future benefits/entitlements were never a part of the agreement. They’d go out of business if they followed suggestions as ludicrous as yours. Get real. You don’t “have to” anything. No one is forcing you to buy multiple copies of anything. Plan better next time and you’ll avoid these petty issues.
@DA3NAPPUX – The main reason the PS3 was as expensive as it was is because blu-ray was brand new technology back then and it was very expensive. In the beginning, the PS3 was actually the cheapest blu-ray player you could buy. Now, blu-ray readers are obviously very affordable. Plus, blu-ray is Sony’s own technology, so it makes the PS4 that much cheaper for them to build. Also consider that they didn’t design some crazy CPU for the PS4 like they did for the PS3. It’s just a much cheaper console overall.
Adding PS3 emulation wouldn’t have costed them an additional $200 in production costs. And whatever it did cost, they wouldn’t have placed it all on the consumer anyway. They sell their new consoles at a loss because their software sales more than make up for it.
All we can do is speculate, but I really don’t believe that production cost was the deciding factor. If PS4 had BC, then PS3 sales would be all but dead, and PlayStation Now never could have existed on PS4, and you can be sure they wouldn’t have invested in it just for Vita.
The reason the PS4 is not bc with the PS3 is the same reason the PS3 was not bc with the PS2…cheap more copies of the older system. The PS2 lasted like another 5-6yrs after the PS3. If Sony had kept bc with the PS3, the PS2 would have died soon. By not doing so, Sony could sell the PS2 for $100. If Sony made the PS4 bc with the rise and even rise the price of the PS4 a little to cover that cost, Sony would be losing money. The cheapest PS3 is like $200. And the most Sony can rise the PS4 with bc is by an additional $100. Sony would be losing $100. It is all about a “profit deal”.
Sony said they had a 10-year plan for the PS3.
10 years isn’t up yet.
Of course production cost was a factor. You think they didn’t know what Microsoft was up to all along? You think they wanted a repeat of the slow start they had with the PS3? The architecture of the PS4 itself proves they had production costs as a top priority in mind from the beginning. Why put the Cell or the EE in the PS4? If anyone wants games that run on the Cell or EE, they can keep their PS3s/PS2s or buy new ones. Or… wait for a service like this, where all profits go directly to the top and dispersed as deemed proper. Keeping it in-house.
Also, new gamers just getting started on the PS4 wouldn’t even care for the older tech. There’s no reason for Sony to invest in such a fruitless endeavor just to appease a microscopic (and ever-fading) slice of their consumer pie. Yeah, yeah, loyalty and all that. I’m all for it, believe me, but business survival won’t allow it. Some sacrifices need to be made and the consumers must simply adapt to the changes if they still want to go along for the ride.
@ gohan16ken
A PS4 with PS3 backwards-compatibility would use less parts than two separate consoles. (Example: Both consoles’ games would be running on the same Blu-Ray drive, HDD, power supply, ports, etc.). The profits actually might be a wash in that department, but the cost of making that addition to a new product that had yet to break ground was still large enough (and risky enough) to discourage the investment.
If Sony was playing monopoly, the PS4 might have had backwards-compatibility. They could have gotten away with it because they could have guided the transition of profit flow from one generation to the next through any variety of proprietary programs, effectively preserving their influence on their consumer base. But, competition levels the playing field and forces the participants to make sacrifices in order to stay in the game. Which is good because it stimulates innovative thought and encourages a constant refinement of effort. Thus, the integrity of the art form is maintained. It’s all good.
too bad i can’t avail ps now coz our internet is too slow..
Make ps now $10 a month for ps plus subscribers and you have a deal.
Game suggestions:
Ex. The Orange Box, Valkyria Chronicles, Bioshock, Borderlands, Minecraft, GTA, Rayman, Deadspace: 1-2, South Park, The Walking Dead, Dark Souls, Far Cry, Batman: AA, Ni No Kuni, Portal 2, Fallout, Skyrim, Assassins Creed, Socom, CoD, BF, Red Dead Redemption, etc.
Please put WipEout HD with the Fury expansion on the PS Now rental and subscription library! Such a classic!
Can you guys put PS1 and PS2 games that were made to work on PS3 (“classics”) on the service and just say “no online multiplayer or trophies with these titles”)?
Thanks for the reply Jack. Looking forward to more high quality games from all publishers and having PS Now on more devices. Such high potential for the service once it is on more devices like iOS and Android.
My pleasure, and thanks for the support!