Since the start of the year, Sony has been busy renaming and killing services that didn’t match up with its plans moving forward. Under this house cleaning, Sony ended its attempts at competing in the music streaming space and in doing so, killed Music Unlimited. Luckily for those on PlayStation, the service was replaced by PlayStation Music, which is actually a skin for Spotify as the service is entirely powered by them. In order to simplify its naming structure, Sony has also renamed their Walkman app on Android to simply Music. As Sony themselves put it:

 Not all people make the connection that Walkman is about music. So, to simplify for all our users, we are changing the name to make it easy to understand what this app gives you: Music 

Now Sony is renaming another one of their services.

With a focus on promoting and leveraging the PlayStation Now, which can already be seen with PlayStation Music, Sony is renaming another one of their services that never quite clicked with consumers, Video Unlimited. Much in the vein of iTunes, Video Unlimited allows you to purchase or rent TV shows and movies. With the most recent update (13.2.A.1.2), the app on Android will be renamed to PlayStation Video. It’s unlikely that we’ll see PlayStation Music come to Android as Spotify already operates in that space, but this marks yet another step for Sony as they continue to leverage PlayStation and grow the brand beyond core gamers.

All in all, this is a good move by Sony, especially since the underpinning will be the same, meaning you can expect the same content and functionality.

Discuss:

Do you like the name PlayStation Video better than Video Unlimited?