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We’ve got more magical goodness from Bethesda, with Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Dishonored headlining this month’s new content drop for PS Now and pushing the library ever closer to 600 total games available. We’re also bringing back the $9.99 intro offer and 12-month subscription for a limited time, just in time for the holidays. Get your first month for $9.99 (new subscribers only, available in US only) or lock in another 12 months of PS Now for just $99.99. Both offers are available until the end of January.
New This Month
Before there was Skyrim, there was Oblivion. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion drops players into Tamriel’s Cyrodill province, where the fanatical Mythic Dawn cult are opening portals to the demonic realm of Oblivion. With open-world exploration, fully voiced NPCs, and a vast world to explore, this PS3 first-person RPG is a must-play.
For a different kind of immersive adventure, dive into the plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall in Dishonored. You play as a bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles who is framed for her murder and must get revenge on those conspiring against you. Using supernatural abilities, face your enemies head-on with weapons drawn, or pursue them from the shadows with a more stealthy approach. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make. Dishonored also features a star-studded cast of VO talent.
Brink is a unique FPS set on The Ark, a floating city and once-great utopia. Parkour moves help keep the action fast and smooth. In WET, play as Rubi Malone, a skilled assassin who solves problems with firearms, swords, and crazy acrobatics.
Also from Bethesda are Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Rage, which joined the PS Now library in September.
This month we’ve also got more RPGs, RTS games, puzzle games and more. Here are all the new games available to stream on PS4 and Windows PC starting December 5.
New PS3 Games
New PS4 Games
Last Month’s Most Popular PS Now Titles
The holidays are almost here, which means lots of free time to curl up in front of the TV for some long gaming sessions. With nearly 600 games in the service, PlayStation Now lets you play to your heart’s content. If you haven’t given PS Now a try yet, the seven-day free trial for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC is the perfect way to experience the streaming service for yourself. PS Now provides unlimited on-demand access to a growing library of nearly 600 PS4 and PS3 games, with new games added every month, and no game downloads required. PS4 save data in PS Now is even compatible with PS Plus cloud saves, so you can upload/download save files to/from your own console.
The introductory offer of $9.99 for the first month (new subscribers only, available in US only) and the 12 month subscription for just $99.99 are both available for a limited time until February, so act fast. Note that in order to take advantage of the $9.99 intro offer, you will need to purchase that directly, as the 7-day trial will transition into the standard monthly subscription.
Based on my count, Oblivion is now the third PS3 game that is on PS Now but not available to purchase on PS3 PS Store. Why is that? How can a PS3 game be on PS Now but not on the PS Store? This includes God of War 3!
Wait it is more than 3…I did not know the Fallout games are on PS Now. So here is a list of PS3 games on the PS Now but not available to purchase on the PS3 PS Store.
God of War 3
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Heavy Rain
I want to buy these games digitally for my PS3! There are other games like the Dirt and F1 games but I don’t care about those.
Because it has nothing to do with that unfortunately, the game was released at a time when it wasn’t common for every game to also be released digitally.
@JoeUFC, when Microsoft makes an OG Xbox or a Xbox 360 game playable on Xbox One, I can play it on my Xbox 360. From what I understand, PS Now is using custom PS3. Therefore, if they have the PS3 game code to work on PS Now, then they should have it available to put on the PS3 PS Store so I can purchase it.
Also, Burnout Paradise was released Jan 2008 and placed on the PS3 PS Store on Sept 2008. God of War 3 came out March 2010. Per your reply, what stopped GoW3 from being available digitally?
I believe the issue is that someone just needs to put the game on the PS Store. And I think the reason they are not doing it is to increase the value of PS Now.
I never said they couldn’t be, I just said it was not required for games at that point to always be available digitally as well… Even Skyrim was not available digitally on ps3 when it first came out, and I think it still isn’t… I don’t disagree at all, I just wonder if they’re going to think it’s really not worth it for how old the game is now, honestly.
Eh it’s a bit more complicated than you’re letting it on to be. They are likely emulating the disc being inside using a partition, and having the game installed on another part of the console. See the thing is, games cache portions of the game to the hard drive, and the rest of the data is pulled off the disc itself.
It’s not like the 360 (which had lower capacity but faster read speeds on single layer games but slower linear reading speeds) where you could just install the WHOLE game to a hard drive, because mandatory installs were rare. So I don’t know how easy it would be to put that software out in the wild, on PS3s and even if they could, there’s licensing issues.
I am not an engineer so I do not know how PS Now works. And I understand the PS3 had a complicated digital offering especially when compare to the X360. A few years ago, I spoke with Capcom who told me how complicated it was to make Games on Demand on the PS3 compare to the X360. And I know that PS3 Day 1 digital program didn’t start until 2012. I get all of that.
All I am saying is, if they can bring these games to PS Now, then you should be able to bring it digitally to the PS3. With all due respect, I think a lot of people make excuses for Sony saying things are hard or impossible. When at the end of the day, I believe it is about money. From Sony’s POV, why bring it to the PS3 when it will increase the value of PS Now by not doing it?
It is about money. That is not a crime nor wrong. So, let’s stop making excuses for Sony and admit it.
They did spend hundreds of millions on this streaming service so of course money has to do with it, but the problem with the ancient “it’s all about money” argument is that you can’t put it all on Sony, back then it was too too Bethesda to put the game in the store and it probably still is.. And if they were so money hungry, that would contradict the fact that the vast majority of the games on PS Now ARE available to buy digitally and they even have games on the like The Last Of Us that they would probably rather you pay for fully…
I mean how money hungry can they be with the limited amount of people who are still downloading PS3 games regularly? And is there really that much money to be made on old cheap games? That are still available for purchase on disc?