PlayStation Music, with Spotify as the exclusive partner, launches soon
Hello everyone! I’m thrilled today to introduce a new music destination called PlayStation Music, with Spotify as the exclusive partner. We’ve partnered with our friends at Spotify to bring its award-winning digital music service to PlayStation Network this spring in 41 markets around the world.
We know how important music is to our community of gamers, and this partnership combines the best in music with the best in gaming. PlayStation Network users will enjoy the convenience of linking your accounts to Spotify, making it easy to sign-up with your existing ID and subscribe to Spotify’s Premium service.
You can also use Spotify while playing games on PS4, enabling you to soundtrack your gaming sessions with your favorite songs in the background. Want something heavy and rocking for an intense Destiny Raid? How about some old school hip hop while taking to the pitch in FIFA? With more than 30 million songs and 1.5 billion playlists, Spotify on PlayStation Music has it covered.
As we get closer to launch we look forward to telling you about some of the other great features that will be available exclusively through Spotify on PlayStation Music.
The new service will launch initially on PS4 and PS3, as well as Xperia smartphones and tablets. You’ll of course be able to listen to your favorite playlists – including existing playlists from current Spotify users as well as Spotify curated playlists – and enjoy the service on all of Spotify’s supported devices.
Prior to the launch of Spotify on PlayStation Music, the Music Unlimited service will close in all 19 countries on 29th March 2015. Nearly all of these countries will be among the 41 markets where PlayStation Music featuring Spotify will be available at launch, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. From 28th February 2015, Music Unlimited users with active subscriptions will receive free access to Music Unlimited through 29th March 2015.
Stay tuned to the Blog for more details on PlayStation Music featuring Spotify, and in the meantime you can sign up for updates here.
What about YouTube and Maps apps on Vita?
If you would really know how important music is to community you wouldn’t cut off support for YouTube.
Ahh right… spotify not for Vita…. instead Xperia smartphones…
Yes Vita owners love SONY as much as SONY loves Vita <- not at all
The Google maps app was terrible and Google don’t want to update it anymore. You can access YouTube from the browser and you’ll always have the ‘latest version’ of it. Don’t worry about it – it’s really not important, just use the websites instead. :-)
@killah_furry
Did you actually use that “browser”? If only it was working like it should… but no, in fact it works worse than browsers on windows mobile phones… and that’s actually hard.
Just use the browser, it works fine with youtube.
And yes, it is a worse browser compared to what you find on WP8, but considering how the browser on WP8 is based on IE11, which has the markets best Javascript engine, it is pretty hard to be better than that browser, on a technical front.
your comment is completely out of place! this is about spotify and not the vita, if you have any complains about the google support for vita then write an email to sony and dont post it on the blog….
It says in the post that it will >initially< launch on ps3 ps4 etc. There's no mention Vita is abandoned. Don't get your panties in a twist.
U kno there’s a youtube app on vita, right?
Archacus is right. Browser and App don’t compare at all.
Youtube APP on VITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!