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Sony beefs up PSN with YouTube, better game spectating, and 25 free-to-play games

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LOS ANGELES — Sony said today that Google will bring its YouTube video service to the PlayStation Network starting later this year.

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles, Sony said that 95 percent of PlayStation 4 video game console users get on the network. And they have played 1 billion multiplayer sessions, according to Shawn Laydon, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. Players have logged 1.25 billion hours on PSN.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.