Last year, the first rumors about PlayStation Spartacus, a new service type belonging to PlayStation, appeared; It started to be a matter of curiosity what kind of services this service would cover. Although not much information has been shared about the service so far, many claims have been made about Playstation Spartacus.
According to Bloomberg’s report, what this service covers is expected to be announced next week. Let’s take a look at what is known about Playstation Spartacus for now and what kind of predictions are made about the service before this announcement.
Retro compatibility with PlayStation Spartacus is predicted to come and two popular services will be combined under one service
While some claim that this service will bring retro compatibility to older Playstation consoles , some suggest PS Plus and PS Now services will be merged into one service. In fact, if you look at it, the service seems to combine two existing services. However, many insider leaks claim that there will be some kind of “classic games” connected to this service. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to wait for an official statement to see how many of these claims are true.
According to Bloomberg, with this upcoming strategic move, the company aims to advertise the platform using successful games from the past few years. Judging by the information verified by anonymous sources connected with the company, the company aims to gather various plans and catalogs under one service. This supports the possibility that Playstation Spartacus is actually a new service combining Playstation Now and Playstation Plus services.
To briefly mention for those of you who do not know; PlayStation Now, which allows subscribers to play games in a catalog, brings newly released games to PS4 and PS2, as well as some PS3 games available via streaming. On the other hand, PlayStation Plus offers the necessary service for anyone who wants to play online with PlayStation. The company also provides 100GB of cloud storage for PS Plus subscribers to download free games and saved games every month. According to the rumors circulating around, it is claimed that PlayStation Spartacus will combine these two services into a single service.
PlayStation plans to offer its users an Xbox GamePass-level service
In addition to this combination, there will be a number of “layers” in the service and these layers will include extended demos and It is stated that it will allow access to classic and modern games in addition to streaming at the most expensive levels.
However, it is stated that “classic games” play a big role in the service, which is why rumors about retro compatibility originate. A few months ago, PS4 and PS5 engineer Mark Cerny filed patents for award-winning achievements of legacy platforms; After these patents, many users began to believe that the PS5 would have retro compatibility with old platforms with the arrival of PlayStation Spartacus.
Of course, it should be noted once again that all these are just rumors and speculations for now. However, to make a comment based on all this, it seems that PlayStation aims to provide its users with an Xbox GamePass-level service.
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