Sony's Playstation Now Service Will Offer Over 100 Streamable Games For 20$ A Month At Launch

     PlayStation now will offer PlayStation 4 only players the chance to play over 100 different PlayStation 3 games, which was previously not an option due to the system's lack of backwards compatibility. The service will not be exclusive to PlayStation 4 however, and will be available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation TVs, Sony TVs, and the feature is also expected to be integrated into some 2015 Blue-Ray players. While the system will still offer its rental feature which allows users to pay a predetermined fee to temporarily make the games available in their PlayStation now library, upon launch Sony will also allow PlayStation now subscriptions. The subscription prices as they currently stand are 19.99$ for a month or 44.99$ for 3 months, Sony will also be offering an obligation free 7-day trial with full access to everything. The service streams the visual information from Sony managed servers and delivers the image to the player, thus all updates and downloadable content for the games are present. The streaming nature of the server however also places some limitations on it, as failure to meet the minimum 5 Mpbs all dedicated to PlayStation now will cause a reduction in image quality. The service is expected to launch officially on January 13 after nearly a year in beta phase.