(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Sony has detailed the changes PlayStation Plus will see on the PlayStation 4 , with the inclusion of online gaming into the Plus subscription just the start. Thankfully, pretty much everything else is a positive, although the company hasn’t decided on Gaikai.


“It is time to charge,” said Sony Europe MD Fergal Gara [You must login or register to view this content.], “but it is time to charge and still continue to deliver phenomenal value.”


“A PlayStation Plus subscriber for PlayStation 4 comes away with a hell of a lot,” he said. “First of all, the subscription applies across all three platforms, so if you have the three platforms then you have an instant game collection on all three.”


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If you don't have Plus, perhaps now's the time - the PS4 will be heavily weighted towards subscribers.


“But it is true to say that the online multiplayer element for PS4, you do require the subscription,” Gara added.

“If you choose not to subscribe we are still gating relatively little in many senses,” he added, “so access to online catch-up TV and online movie services sit outside of the gate, for example.”


“The social features of PS4 and PS4 games and things like auto-updates on PS4 sit outside of PlayStation Plus, so we’re trying to be as balanced and as fair as we possibly can.” Auto-updates are a Plus benefit on PS3.


“If you choose to pay the subscription, yes, you get one important element of modern-day gameplay, but you also get fantastic value in games, including the You must login or register to view this content..”


Gara says that the inclusion of Gaikai into PlayStation Plus hasn’t been decided, though, and could still be behind the £40 a year subscription fee. “We haven’t decided,” he said, adding that the Remote Play feature (that’ll mean Vita consoles can play PS4 games) “uses some Gaikai technology.”


“Will that be part of PlayStation Plus? I genuinely don’t know. Will that require some other, different charging mechanism? Perhaps. We just haven’t sat down to answer that question yet.”


Sony will introduce Gaikai’s PS3 playback in 2014 in the US.

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I lold at this there talking like its the gate way to heaven it probably is.

Will we be able to stream games we already own on the ps3 to the ps4?

no one knows, i doubt it, we'll probably have to repurchase them

I hope they give some kind of discount.

Was wondering the same thing, my other worry with game streaming is bandwidth usage and network downtime.

would be good if you put your disc in it'll give you that game, but that means people would just rent games and add them. which makes me think you'll need to repurchase them, probably at a fraction of the price hopefully, i bet they'll still push for £15-£20 a title lol