{"id":107761,"date":"2020-01-21T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356971"},"modified":"2020-01-21T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:08:00","slug":"youtube-tv-comes-to-ps4-replacing-playstations-own-doomed-tv-service-ps-vue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/youtube-tv-comes-to-ps4-replacing-playstations-own-doomed-tv-service-ps-vue\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube TV comes to PS4, replacing PlayStation&#8217;s own doomed TV service PS Vue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has announced that its live TV service YouTube TV has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTubeTV\/status\/1219667109304774662\">officially launched on PlayStation 4<\/a>, a debut that heralds the end of Sony\u2019s own ambitions in the live TV streaming space.<\/p>\n<p>The launch comes just one week before Sony\u2019s ill-fated PlayStation Vue <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353065\/PlayStation_Vue_is_shutting_down_in_2020.php\">goes offline for good<\/a> on January 30, 2020. The service got its start in 2015, but Sony says a highly competitive industry and expansive complications with licensing deals ultimately made Vue a losing battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected,\u201d said a previous statement from Sony Interactive Entertainment deputy president John Kodera. \u201cBecause of this, we have decided to remain focused on our core gaming business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sony had reportedly been on the hunt for a buyer prior to announcing PlayStation Vue&#8217;s shutdown in late 2019, but instead opted to shutter the service altogether after a little under 5 years of support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has announced that its live TV service YouTube TV has officially launched on PlayStation 4, a debut that heralds the end of Sony\u2019s own ambitions in the live TV streaming space. The launch comes just one week before Sony\u2019s ill-fated PlayStation Vue goes offline for good on January 30, 2020. The service got its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}