Less than a year after the launch of the new generation of consoles, the cards in the field of subscription services and the functioning of the relevant digital stores are distributed quite clearly. Microsoft is celebrating success with the Game Pass, which it is probably already subscribing to around 30 million players, and connecting a part of the available library with xCloud may seem like a successful step. If you have access to it – that is, you pay for a Game Pass Ultimate subscription – then you also have EA Play available with another offer of games and trial versions of news from Electronic Arts. On the other hand, Microsoft has made a leg out of games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, which it requires to play multiplayer, although no longer for free to play games. On the other side of the barricade is a PlayStation Plus subscription, in which players receive a very tempting offer every month of not too old or even brand new debuting games. However, Sony is looking in vain, if at all, for the answer to the Game Pass that is closest to its PlayStation Now subscription. However, this is not available in as many regions as a competitive service, and new titles such as Microsoft are not planned for PS Now, at least for the time being. But the news from the stable is slowly coming to the fore blue team, which can be free trial versions of games, as they are starting to appear in selected regions where the Czechia does not yet belong.
Sony is starting a thing called Game Trials, allowing you to play certain games for a limited time period. Good idea, all little like Ea Play 10 play I guess.
It starts with Death Stranding and Sackboy. pic.twitter.com/hfjlvVLBgG
— Joe ‚wotta‘ Anderson ????????????????????????????⚽️???? (@_wotta) October 1, 2021
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The first information about the so-called Game Trials, as Sony called the service straightforward, began to come from players in the UK at the end of last week. One of them was the Scot Joe Anderson, who shared the wording of the e-mail from Sony on his Twitter. The service is introduced and supplemented with details of the first two represented titles. They are them Death Stranding Director’s Cut a Sackboy: A Big Adventurewhich can be played for six, respectively. five hours without further restriction. However, it is important to define that the offer only applies to PS5 versions of these games and, perhaps more importantly, the time limit starts to run from the moment a player starts downloading the game. So if you want to play Death Stranding, for example, you must first consider how much time it will take to download a large 70GB data package, in the case of Sackboy it would be less than half. Of course, players have already started to think of ways to circumvent the restrictions and advise to create a completely new account, use it only to download the game, and only activate a trial on the main account, which only verifies that the game is already installed on the console and lets the player in. into the game instantly.
The quoted e-mail is a bit confusing in the part where it entices you to play trial versions of the most popular games from PlayStation Studios, when the authors of none of the offered games belong to the Sony family of internal studios.
The last current factor limiting the possible trial of the game is the finding that the offer will probably not be permanent and will last only until midnight on October 28. At least that’s what the published e-mail talks about Game Trials, and the question remains what exactly Sony is up to. The fact remains that no one has officially commented on the service, and it is likely that the first information from Sony representatives will not come until Monday on media inquiries. So maybe we’ll find out if this is just about test, which may be followed by a sharp version with an expanded catalog of games, or the offer will be random and dependent on the monthly period. A bit confusing is also the quoted e-mail in the part in which it attracts to play trial versions of those most popular games from PlayStation Studios, when the authors of none of the offered games belong to the family of internal studios Sony. Just in order – Death Stranding is the work of Kojima Productions and Sackboy for a change from the Sumo Digital team, despite the fact that in the first case Sony took care of part of the marketing and release in exchange for time exclusivity and in the second case entrusted its own spin-off production brand to a third party to appear in this case as the publisher of both available versions – PS4 and PS5.
But if we were to return to trials, the magazine Video Games Chronicle rightly points out that Sony has recently patented a way in which it could introduce games for the PS5 to the PS Now streaming platform, thus achieving an even more effective way of selecting selected titles on a non-binding basis, or For the price of a subscription, try for several hours. According to the patent, the server should benefit from the involvement of several NVMe SSDs, which could allow data to reach players even faster and meet the criteria for the behavior of next-generation consoles. So, like Microsoft is gradually doing with the upgrade of Game Pass servers from the Xbox One S kits to the hardware that powers the most powerful Xbox Series X.
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