The Bloomberg information web site reported on Friday that Sony is planning to launch a brand new service in spring 2022 that might rival Microsoft‘s Xbox Sport Go service.

In accordance with the report, the service could be accessible for each PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and would enable customers to pay a month-to-month price to entry a catalog of contemporary and basic video games. Bloomberg said the plans included a three-tier subscription system. The primary tier would function current PlayStation Plus advantages, the second tier would supply PS4 and PS5 titles, and the third tier would add prolonged demos, recreation streaming, and a catalog of PlayStation 1-3 and PlayStation Moveable video games.

The report said the service is code-named “Spartacus,” and it might merge Sony‘s present PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now providers. Bloomberg said the paperwork it reviewed “instructed” Sony would part out PlayStation Now however would maintain PlayStation Plus.

PlayStation Plus is required for a lot of on-line multiplayer video games, and the service additionally affords a number of free video games every month. PlayStation Now permits subscribers to stream or obtain older video games.

Sony didn’t reply to a request for remark from Bloomberg.

Xbox Sport Go is a service that permits customers to pay a month-to-month subscription price to entry a library of video games without having to individually buy them. The service launched in June 2017, and presently has greater than 18 million subscribers.

Supply: Bloomberg (Jason Schreier) by way of Gematsu