Have you ever heard of the Bravia Core app? Me neither. This service was pr🦄eviously only accessible for people who owned Bravia TVs and certain Xperia devices, and gave audiences access to Sony Pictures films. Sony announced last week that Bravia Core will be rebranded to Sony Pictures Core and launched on PS5 and PS4 consoles, likely in a bid to increase the size of its user base. The Sony Pictures Core app will allow users to 𒈔buy or rent up to 2,000 movies from their consoles, including Spider-Man, Uncharted, Bullet Train, No Hard Feelings, Gran Turismo, and more.
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story is getting a tie-in wi🍬th Gran Turismo 7 through the app as well. Buying the movie thꦬrough Sony Pictures Core will give audiences credit towards an in-game purchase in the racer, which makes sense, but I’m hard-pressed to think of a reason why anybody would want to buy a digital copy of this undeniably mediocre film.
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If you have a PlayStation Plus Premium or Deluxe member, you’ll also be able to stream a ‘curated catalog’ of up to 100 movies through the app on demand, ad-free, of course. This includes films like Looper, Elysium, and Resident Evil Damnation, with more benefits to come for all PlayStation Plus members. Anime from Crunchyrꦅoll should be joining the service soon as well.
On its face, this is a good thing. I think that the buy/rent model is much more sustainable than current streaming models, and I’m a frequent user of Apple TV+ for that reason – the quality of offerings on most streaming services is middling at best, and having access to movies I actually want to watch and being able to rent or buy them is a huge, invaluable boon for me. I’d rather spend $10 to rent a film that I can’t find on streaming services than pay $10 for a stre🌜aming sღervice that I never use because there’s nothing good on there.
But I do have my concerns – mainly the same one that I have with all online services, which is that you can buy a copy of a film but you don’t really own it. I have previously advocated for piracy as♛ a form of media preservation, because of the propensity of streamers to unceremoniously remove media from their platforms, giving audiences no way to eveꦗr enjoy it again.
Buying media ostensibly eliminates this threat, because you supposedly own a copy. But when it comes to digital, you never really own something. T🥃echnically, a company could pull t🅷he product from its platform, and you’d be screwed since you don’t actually own the movie on a disc. That’s why people get into uproars about game studios not releasing physical editions, or when physical discs trigger online downloads instead of having the data on the disc itself.
More than that, this is already a saturated market. There are so many streaming services that there are services available to help you keep track of what streaming services you’re subscribed to, so you know where your money is going each month and you can cancel the ones you’re not using. The market is so oversaturated that streamers are losing su𝓰bscribers, especially every time there’s a price hike. There is so much to watch in a single service’s offerings already, and only so many hours in a day. There is nothing keeping these audiences from dropping a service entirely if they no longer find a service worth what they’re paying for it.
Sony Pictures Core proposes that you have access to Sony movies, many of which are available elsewhere. It says you can buy digital copies of those films, but digital copies don’t really stand for much nowadays. You don’t have to subscribe,𓂃 just own a PS4 or PS5, but why would you use it when there are other options you’re probably already subscribed to? I can’t help but feel like this is yet another streaming service that will𒀰 never take off.