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Sony is going after Microsoft and its XBox with its PlayStation competitor. Because the Japanese giant is launching a new streaming service for games, as if it were a ‘netflix of games’. XBox already had a similar subscription formula with ‘Game Pass’. Now Sony has announced that it will merge ‘PlayStation Plus’ – the console’s former online environment – and ‘PlayStation Now’. In Europe, the new service will cost €13.99 or €16.99 per month. For that amount you respectively get access to about four hundred PlayStation games, who pays extra, also gets access to 300 ‘retro’ titles. The launch is planned for June this year. (adm)
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