OK, I persevered with PlaystationNow It's the most baffling experience ever.
A staggering catalogue of around 800 games - many top end ones from a year or two ago (Detroit Become Human, Control, Horizon Zero Dawn). And the most pitiful interface ever created by a games company ever.
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(Those black squares never go away - there are games under them but the only way to find out what game is to click them. Also, the tiles can't be resized - that's full screen on a 32 inch 4k monitor. 15 games max.) There is
no search. I'll say that again, 800 games and no way of searching for the one you want.....
Games either play absolutely perfectly (many look like 4k to my untutored eye and over my fibre are as responsive as on hard drive) and although they take a minute of so to launch, that compares well with a 40 mins download. Or.....they just refuse to work and no amount of clicking, rebooting, reinstalling will make them work until magically they start working again (I'm guessing a PSN server error)
My XBox controller works well with them (far better than all the dire warning from Sony) until.....it doesn't. I was loving Detroit Turn Human until a bit in the tutorial where I needed to press R2. No amount of pressing would move on so I had to end the game. There's also no way past this bit. Other games seem to deliberately demand the Dual Shock just to make you buy one. Heavy Rain won't let you proceed through a section until you've shaken the controller. One decent shooter I was playing mysteriously mapped controls to the touch pad when they would be far better on the Dpad. Maybe it's a deal with Sony to make people think their controllers are essential.
So....a mixed bag. Beautiful playable games - except when they aren't. Almost certainly has the game you want but you may never find it. A bargain at 50 quid a year but not so much if you have to spend 45 quid on another controller.