Yours truly called it all the way back in April 2021, during the service’s launch, and now it’s finally happening: Bravia CORE, Sony’s movie streaming service that used to be offered exclusively to owners of specific hi-end Sony TV sets for the last two years, it’s coming to a much larger user base. The PlayStation one. The service’s access app is now available for the PlayStation4 and the PlayStation5 — which have sold more than 150 million units combined to date — in 23 countries, with more to follow in the future.
It’s a brave step forward for Sony’s subscription offering and a necessary one: limiting its audience to thousands instead of millions of potential customers every year would eventually do more harm than good, so it’s great that Sony is giving Bravia CORE a fighting chance in a market already difficult enough to survive in.