On December 3, 2021, Bloomberg reported that Sony is reportedly working on a new subscription service codenamed "Spartacus", the service will be a merger of the company’s current services, PlayStation Plus, and PlayStation Now, with the company reportedly set to keep the Plus branding, the service will include three tiers, the first will include all the benefits that PlayStation Plus would include, the second will expand upon the first by including a catalog of titles, with the third expanding upon the first two by including demos as well as a catalog of games from the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable, the service is to launch within the Spring of 2022 and will compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service.[36]