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Strange PS Plus Bug is Making Gamers Play Two Games at The Same Time
25.03.2024 - 03:51 / gamerant.com / Playstation Plus / Josh Tolentino / Sony
An unusual bug affecting Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription service has impacted players attempting to play games through the service. The bug, which affects users on both PS4 and PS5 using PS Plus, seems to launch two games on the same console simultaneously, despite that capability not being native to the consoles.
Game subscription services have come quite a long way since the early days of the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation. Compared to the limited offerings of back then, platform services offer things like free game libraries, online play, and cloud services to convince players to pay regularly. Lately, Sony has been looking to online game streaming to give players greater value in the face of recent price hikes for PS Plus subscriptions in some territories. The Premium tier of the PS Plus subscription offers various classic games to stream online to PS4 and PS5 consoles.
It's in that PS Plus online streaming environment that Reddit user TheLeftBoy encountered a bizarre bug affecting PS Plus. TheLeftBoy was attempting to play the Jedi action game Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 via the service. But rather than the saga of Starkiller, who might have been one of the strongest Jedi in the Star Wars franchise, TheLeftBoy saw the strange flickering title screen of an entirely different game: Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, originally released in 2013 on PS3.
The unusual PS Plus glitch caused severe flickering of the Sly Cooper title screen all over TheLeftBoy's The Force Unleashed 2 gameplay, making the game almost unplayable. TheLeftBoy said that they eventually resolved the issue by exiting and relaunching the game, but their footage of the odd bug drew attention from users on the PlayStation subreddit. Some players worried that the constant flickering could be a hazard for players who suffer from photosensitive conditions such as epilepsy, which can trigger seizures in some people confronted by rapid flashes and bright lights. Even major franchises like Call of Duty have glitches that can affect users with epilepsy.
Others were amused by the glitch, joking that Sony was delivering subliminal messaging to «brainwash» PS Plus subscribers into playing Sly Cooper. A few chimed in, saying they'd encountered the bug while attempting to stream other games via PS Plus. One player encountered the bug while trying to play the classic version of God of War via PS5, and for them the bug was bad enough that they were unable to stream any PS Plus game and were forced to turn to Sony tech support for a solution. While game streaming has improved greatly in recent years, glitches and bugs like the one experienced by TheLeftBoy and others put some unpleasant wrinkles in companies' vision of a cloud-based future where
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