If you'd rather stream than buy your console games, Sony has a new offer for you. Its PlayStation Now service just got a 50 percent price cut.
Writing on the PlayStation Blog, Grace Chen, vice president of PlayStation Network, confirmed that starting today a PlayStation Now subscription costs considerably less. In the US it's now $9.99 per month, $24.99 per quarter, or $59.99 per year. That's down from $19.99, $44.99, and $99.99 respectively.
PlayStation Now offers access to over 800 games spread across the PS4, PS3, and PS2, and to help entice even more new sign-ups, Sony is making God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, inFamous Second Son, and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End available on the service until Jan. 2, 2020.
Each month new games will be added as others disappear, you can download some of the titles to your PS4 to play, and multiplayer is supported both online and locally. It's also possible to access PlayStation Now games on a PC, although you're limited to streaming only, no downloads.
The price cut is a key move by Sony to help increase the number of subscribers PlayStation Now has over the holidays, but also to counteract Microsoft's imminent xCloud game streaming service. Microsoft started allowing xCloud sign ups last month with the service expected to get a limited public preview this month. Sony may offer access to over 800 games, but xCloud is capable of streaming 3,500 Xbox games.
Clearly, when both services are live we're sure to see the competition, and therefore the value, continue to ramp up for consumers.