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In the last few hours, several PS4 and PS5 users have reported curious episodes related to the renewal of PlayStation Plus, which in some cases seems to include a subscription to PlayStation Now, and in others it seems not to correctly report the name of the service. While we cannot exclude the hypothesis of a bug with certainty, it is possible that these changes are linked to the potential announcement of Spartacus, the new subscription service from Sony revealed in preview by Bloomberg.
The existence of Spartacus has not yet been confirmed by the Japanese giant, but in recent months the journalist Jason Schreier has spoken about it several times, and other well-known faces including Nick Baker of XboxEra, Jeff Grubb of GamesBeat and multiple insiders and journalists have declared to be aware of the project, and that the announcement should be very close . Sony also recently removed PS Now prepaid cards from some stores , fueling suspicions.
A few hours ago a user wrote on the
NeoGAF video game forum , stating that he has renewed his PlayStation Plus subscription for a year, and that he has also received a PS Now subscription of the same duration. Other subscribers asked him to check that it was not an error, but according to the user the subscription as a gift is up and running, and will expire in March 2023.
Other forum users subscribed to both services, PS Plus and PS Now, report changes in their accounts, which are visible in the "Subscriptions" section. By logging in, in some cases the PS Now subscription seems to have disappeared, while in other cases it is still present, but has been renamed "PS Plus". Below you can take a look at an example.
The first subscription is for 12 months to PS Plus, while the second of the same duration is a subscription to PS Now, now present under the same name.
After carrying out a trial, IGN Italia can confirm that if a PS Plus subscriber purchases a PS Now subscription at this instant, he will apparently receive an extended subscription to the latter service, or at least this reports the appropriate section of the account PlayStation. For example, if a user with 12 months of PS Plus buys a month of PS Now, he will end up with 12 months of both.
IGN Italia specifies that it could be a simple technical problem or a graphic bug, and that in the next few hours Sony could intervene to solve the problem. It is therefore not certain that what is reported in the "Subscriptions" section corresponds to reality, and the second subscription may actually not receive extensions. In all cases, the rumors of the last few weeks were talking about a merger of the two subscriptions, so it is possible that Sony is actually preparing the ground for the launch of Spartacus.
