Just buy a year off the dashboard for £19.99 cheaper and less hastle.

Sweet deal if you just want a month over christmas

Now £3.99

Sorry if this is an obvious question but if I buy a years subscription do I have unlimited access to every game in the vault? For the whole year?

Are these live right away or can it be install/activated when you like???? thanks

No that's my opinion but it would make sense as Sony will soon be releasing their own UHD Blu-ray player to compete with Panasonic and Samsung's offerings. Microsoft doesn't make any other audio/visual equipment unlike Sony so isn't treading on any of their other divisions toes with their Xbox One S.

EA Access is a red herring regarding sales of console, it been out years but didn't help the Xbox One sell more consoles than the PS4.

bought through the EA Access app on the Xbox One dahsboard

Is that sonys opinion?

My understanding is that Microsoft feels differently and so it's very possible their new console will have that support. I'm not quite at enthusiast level, even with my console gaming. So will go for just one console with the features that appeal to me most. UHD blueray likely to be one of them. Will just watch and see.

EA access could be another factor as it seems great value for money and not sure why Sony disagrees.

Just buy a year off the dashboard for £19.99 cheaper and less hastle.

The difference in quality between standard definition DVD's and Blu-rays with HD picture and HD sound was a massive difference and like you said helped sell the console a cheap entry into playing Blu-rays. The difference between HD Blu-rays and UHD isn't as big a jump to the 'average' person. UHD Blu-ray is in its infancy (with many new feature films still mastered at less than UHD resolution anyway) and appeals more to the enthusiast, the type of person who doesn't mind paying extra for a standalone player.

From their perspective maybe its easy. But maybe ea access and 4k blueray support is enough for those on the fence to pick Scorpio over ps4 pro (assuming Scorpio will have it).

Way back when I purchased a ps3, I did so because of the blueray support it had over the other consoles. I'm sure others may think along the same lines.

Anyway, not really fussed about it, just both seem like strange decisions to me

Putting a UHD Blu-ray player into a PS4 would cripple their sales of their own standalone UHD Blu-ray player so its quite easy to understand why they have done it.

This decision, plus no 4k blueray support for the ps4 pro, had made it really hard for me to understand their logic.

Both seem very likely to affect their sales on some level.

Anyone have a real idea why they have gone that route?

I said cheaper and less hassle so you've quoted me on that but then say you could spend more at £24.90 on less overall subscription time but have the hassle of 10 separate codes, managing those codes and then hoping they don't expire before you redeem them. Do you know for sure what the expiry date is on the codes supplied by CD Keys is, and I don't mean a guess out of thin air?

Mass effect 1-3 added to the vault yesterday, mirrors edge, mirrors edge catalyst and ufc will be added this week.

Thanks - didn't know that!

Worth mentioning it's an XBox code, not PC :disappointed:

Can these be stacked?
Only after a couple of months.

Tempted by this, just for 3.99 paypal one and get a month free. What games are available, has Battlefront been added yet and is their a trial of Battlefield 1 included?

Battlefront is added next month

Is there a PS4 option too?

​EA Access is for consoles, Origin Access is for PC

worth mentioning that your 10hour trials continue after your months over (unless you've used all 10hours). Adds a bit more value.

Just need Titan fall 2 to be added to it.

Sweet deal if you just want a month over christmas

Also worth noting that if you get 1 month of access via PayPal for £3.99, you get another month free. Offer isn't stackable unlike this one :smiley:

Mirror's Edge or Catalyst?