PlayStation Now Beta Sign Up Emails Sent by Sony to PS4 and PS3 Owners

By Jay Michael, Christian Post Contributor Friday, March 28, 2014

PlayStation Now beta invites are being sent out to PlayStation gamers by Sony through email, according to various reports.

PlayStation Now news has slowly trickled in since the beginning of the month, and so far there is no exact timetable as to when it will be readily available. According to IGN, estimates are guessing it will arrive before the new year, and then early 2015 globally because of Sony's admitted poor broadband connection in Europe.

This new service will allow players to rent games online through their console. IGN reported, it could possibly be between $4.99 and $5.99 to rent a streamed PS3 game. The Gaikai website showed a picture featuring Uncharted 3 and Far Cry 3 with little blue PS Now triangles and a price next to them. See that image here.

IGN reported it is unclear how long these rented games will be available for, and whether the price of the listed games is correct or not.

In other news, Sony recently announced more than half of their PS4 sales have resulted in their customers also buying a PS Plus subscription.

"All the 4.2 million PS4s that have already moved into the hands of consumers, more than half of the people that have now gotten their hands [on] the PS4 have actually signed up for PS Plus service, which bodes very well for us," said Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai in a conference call, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha.

Polygon is reporting that this figure remains unclear if the different types of subscriptions are factored in. There was a free 30-day trial, and now there is currently a yearly, three month, and one month version of PS Plus.