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.
Hey, what does this do to the Powers tv series? Wasn’t that exclusive to the PlayStation Network?
I used to think Sony was a part of the ultraviolet/movies anywhere collection. Then one day I found your name on sale for like a dollar so I purchased it, I didn’t see it show up there (I assumed it was because it was an anime movie but I have dbs broly and the first hero academia movie and I can watch wherever my account is linked).
After I discovered that I don’t think I have purchased anything else via the playstation store. It’s a real shame too, they joined paramount and lions Gate as places I’d never buy any digital media from.
I hope they will do a huge blowout sale before they cancel it. Some of the movies are over priced.
How about working on more ps5 releases. Please
For the love of god can they not do this nonsense🥲
Took you FAR too long to get the finger out with this. By the time we got this video service in Ireland, 8 years later, about 2 years ago, Netflix had already taken not only the world by storm but even here in our country. It is literally your own fault for this failing. But that’s what happens when you sit around and do nothing.
Oh….. and nobody can buy PS1 classics on PS4 and PS5 if you DON’T EVEN SELL THEM AND MAKE THEM PLAYABLE ON THOSE CONSOLES. I know, shocking stuff. Imagine NOT wanting easy money. You are sitting on a gold mine and do nothing with it (and I’m talking about the 400 PS1 games already made and waiting to be able to be played on PS4 and PS5 with no effort that were all playable on PS3, PSP and Vita).
And what’s worse is PS4 was a bigger selling console then PS3 and very likely PS5 will be all over again. So there are plenty of potential new customers that missed out on PS3 with these “PS1 Classics” releases. And you still won’t bother with incredibly obvious things that will make you profit/margin.
You have hit that nail right on the head, that the main reason I still have my ps3 plugged in.
There could be some license issues with some games but they should still be able to put it the ones released digitally before.
The usual response though is that “we found through research that people don’t want to play the previous generations on their new console” kinda hard to do that sort of research if you don’t give them the chance huh?
Sony’s usual response is a load of nonsense to be honest. When backwards compatiblity is done properly like PS4 games on PS5 a lot of people will use it. Especially nowadays when the differences between console generations are nowhere near as big as they used to be and games age a lot better these days.
I would have played all my PS1 and PS2 games on PS4, except for the fact that only around 50 PS2 games were ever available on PS4 and PS1 games were nowhere to be seen. Plus having to re-buy games just to play them on a newer console will put a lot of people off immediately. I gave in and bought a PS2 since the PS2 games I wanted to play have to this day never been on PlayStation Store. Having one PlayStation console that covers all console generations would be great, but Sony aren’t there yet unfortunately.