PlayStation fans can continue to access movie and TV content through the PlayStation Store on PS4 and via our partnerships with top entertainment apps.
Over four years ago, we made a bold decision to change the rules and revolutionize the traditional TV-viewing experience in the U.S. with PlayStation Vue. We set the bar high and sought to innovate an established industry by delivering a modern TV experience. By completely rethinking live and on demand television, we offered an incredible user experience that allowed viewers to discover and watch content in completely new ways.
Today we are announcing that we will shut down the PlayStation Vue service on January 30, 2020. Unfortunately, the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected. Because of this, we have decided to remain focused on our core gaming business.
PlayStation fans can continue to access movie and TV content through the PlayStation Store on PS4 and via our partnerships with top entertainment apps. With 100 million PlayStation 4s in the market today, our community continues to grow and thrive. We will continue to deliver the best entertainment experiences across the network, along with other key gaming services, including PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus.
We are very proud of what PlayStation Vue was able to accomplish. We had ambitious goals for how our service could change how people watch TV, showcasing PlayStation’s ability to innovate in a brand-new category within the Pay TV industry. We want to thank all of our customers, some of whom have been with us since PlayStation Vue’s launch in 2015.
We appreciate your continued support as we move through this transitional period and look toward the future.
Quiero saber cuando van a publicar en PlayStation Blog los anuncios de la PlayStation 5.
Gracias
Sad to see it go, loved every second of it. I’m hoping maybe a new partnership akin to PlayStation Music x Spotify can take its place. Also, I’d love to see 4K movie content introduced on the PlayStation Store. There’s still plenty of innovation left!
Great product, bad marketing and communication.
The thinkers at Sony are brilliant, but the doers are not. Sony always has brilliant and forward thinking ideas, but they communicate and push them so poorly. They came out with PS Now years before Gamepass yet now they are playing catch-up to Google and MS.
I just don’t understand, and it manifests itself everywhere. How on earth do you announce Death Stranding for PC a week before launch? Even PS Move and 3D on PS3 were great products, but they weren’t pushed correctly. Vita TV is a prime example as well. No communication as to what it even does.
Sony makes great products but they won’t even brag about what they can do.
Nooooo!!!
I really love the PlayStation Vue! I even got a few friends on it by telling them how awesome it is. When was the last time you bragged about how awesome your cable service is?
I have been delaying dropping any and all ATT cable or satellite services. DirecTv Now has been my goto because of the user guide interface. I had tried Vue a couple years ago and dropped it over the I/F. Reading recent reviews about Vue I signed up again last month. Vue is now my favored cutting the cable alternative, and I am so very disappointed in your decision. If I may be presumpous, please don’t let your superior product disappear. At worst case, give it away to someone that will keep it going – maybe for deferred pmts or royalties on future profits. Writing it off does have some positive tax implications, but for the sake of your excellent product development, please find a way for your customer base to stay with it. I know my personal respect for Sony would be maintained untarnished. Keep thinking of your customers first – a reputation built this way is priceless, and keeps us coming back again and again – for all products that have Sony name attached!
I am very sad to see PlayStation Vue go. I have had it since day 1, and dropped DTV as soon as it was available. It’s a great deal if you really think about it, look at all of the DTV charges. Rental fees for the box, service charges, local channel charges, equipment insurance fees….and on and on. Hulu/sling don’t provide half the options the Vue has, and have half the sports channels (both charge extra for ESPN). I pray everyday that someone will jump in and buy the rights to the Vue and keep us alive because there are 600k of us paying monthly 50*600k=$30mil a month (quick math). But I know it probably won’t happen, but there is no way in hell I am going back to DTV, I rather have nothing.
I like to see games like nba 2k 20 for free.
The marketing department at Sony failed to get the pulse of the market and should be fired. The job of marketing is to push available products and services, not push an internal narrative. The playstation trademark being removed from the name would have probably gotten someone a raise. XBOX fans would have been more open to the product without playstation in the name. I just started seeing ads just in the last few months. I have been with playstation since the beginning and have VUE on my pc, firetv, android devices and playstation 4. Now I either pay $60 more a month for the same channels or try to find another app. I wish that Sony would rethink and try harder. Like have customer referrals that get a customer a free month for a referral. Sony never said a magic number that would allow the service to continue. This is another item that Sony has allowed to fail on their playstation platform. Since it was a standalone product it should have been treated like one and nurtured as one, but, included with all Sony products. Oh well, the boardroom is a fickled mistress. If I could save VUE I would.