What Channels Do You Get With PlayStation Vue? Available nationwide, PlayStation Vue has four bundles to choose from: Access, Core, Elite and Ultra. They range in price from $49.99 per month to $84.99 per month.

And rival streamers believed they could just pick up the customers Vue drops, without having to buy them via an acquisition. Today, all of Sony's missteps have finally caught up to them, and PlayStation Vue is closing for good. The service is being discontinued today, January 30, 2020.

Beginning Friday, its users will have to search for a new way to stream their favorite cable networks. Sony (SNE), which announced the closure in October, explained it was closing Vue because of rising content costs and said it would rather focus on its core gaming business.

On October 29, 2019, Sony announced PlayStation Vue would be ending service on January 30, 2020, because "the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected".

PlayStation Vue is shutting down in January 2020. Luckily there are plenty of free and paid PlayStation Vue alternatives to consider, and we'll cover the best options below.

Notices posted on the PlayStation website blame “evolving license agreements with content providers” (via machine translation) for the change, and say that purchased content will be removed from customers' video libraries.

Lack of Third-Party Support Since the PS Vita was such a beefy handheld console with high-quality specs, making games for the system was difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. But the PS Vita wasn't selling well. And since it was so expensive and difficult to make games for, many third-party developers just didn't.

And rival streamers believed they could just pick up the customers Vue drops, without having to buy them via an acquisition. Today, all of Sony's missteps have finally caught up to them, and PlayStation Vue is closing for good. The service is being discontinued today, January 30, 2020.

With this shift in customer behavior, we have decided to no longer offer movie and TV purchases and rentals through PlayStation Store as of August 31, 2021.

More than two years ago, PlayStation shut down its service offering movie and TV show purchases and rentals. At the time, Sony Interactive Entertainment explained that was making the move because it was seeing a growing number of PlayStation users shifting to free and subscription streaming-video services.

The Vita was considered a commercial failure for Sony. In 2018, Sony announced there would be no successor to the Vita/PSP line of handhelds. With the success of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck handhelds moving into the 2020s, publications questioned Sony's decision to abandon the market.

One problem was that Vue didn't have any proprietary technology and ran on the Disney-owned streaming platform, BAMTech. Additionally, many of its content deals were tied up with other media companies that wouldn't transfer to a new owner, which only left its team and Vue's subscriber base as major assets.