Details on upcoming changes to on-demand purchases.
At SIE, we strive to provide the best entertainment experience for PlayStation fans, and that means evolving our offerings as customer needs change. We’ve seen tremendous growth from PlayStation fans using subscription-based and ad-based entertainment streaming services on our consoles. With this shift in customer behavior, we have decided to no longer offer movie and TV purchases and rentals through PlayStation Store as of August 31, 2021.
When this change takes effect, users can still access movie and TV content they have purchased through PlayStation Store for on-demand playback on their PS4, PS5 and mobile devices. We thank our fans for their continued support, and we look forward to further enhancing the entertainment experience on PlayStation.
So does that mean they’re taking away streaming services like youtube TV, Netflix and hulu as well?
no
No, just PlayStation’s renting service
I think Sony will adopt a Disney+ type service bundling Sony produced shows and movies. It makes sense. They could bundle in there anime arm with premium versions of Crunchy Roll and Funimation and perhaps feature PS+ or PSNow packages.
Sony is a huge entertainment conglomerate with music, movies, and TV. It’s time they flex that power.
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Well, this sucks.
I really enjoyed buying movies from the PS Store, granted I liked it better when I could download them from the PS3 too.
It’s kinda hard to actually get a hold of some shows on Blu-Ray so buying them here was a great alternative.
I am deeply sad to see if will go away. I was hoping for a few great update to fix the streaming service.
I am really starting to hate the streaming service alternative, it wasn’t that bad when it was just Netflix, but now you have 50+ services which ends up costing more than cable now.
Just like in the past, this will ultimately lead to people just pirating shows and movies instead as was shown happening in the past (remember Napster?)
HBO’s Game of Thrones was the most pirated show on Earth due to high prices from cable subscriptions.
It’s not the price of it, it’s the fact there’s already too many of them.
I know Sony is working on Bravia Core, but that’s fairly specific only on Bravia TVs which btw is a terrible idea to severely limit your audience like that, you could make it wider available as a normal Dolby Vision HDR but have the higher quality version for Bravia TVs. Don’t limit your audience like that.