Without making it the famous “answer to Game Pass” for a time expected, Sony has remodeled its service PS Plus to integrate the late PS Now, and sprinkle it with a few bonuses that are supposed to justify a three-tier price. If the basic formula does not change (access to the online game, two downloadable titles each month, and access to the PS Plus Collection – a dozen or so PlayStation successes downloadable on PS5 only), neither in its offer nor in its price, we were waiting to find out what exactly the second and third levels had in store for us before making up our minds.
Et the line up available at the launch of the service has just been revealed in its entirety on the PlayStation Blog. Here is what subscribers will be entitled to from the start of the service in its new formula.
From the second level of subscription (billed at €14/month or €100/year), subscribers will be able to draw from a collection of PlayStation hits from PlayStation Studios, but also some successes from third-party studios. Among the downloadable games, we noted Bloodborne, Days Gone, Death Stranding (available in PS4 version or Director’s Cut on PS5), Demon’s Souls (PS5), Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (in PS4 or PS5 version), Marvel’s Spider-Man and the Miles Morales expansion (PS4 and PS5), Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PS4 and PS5), Marvel’s Guardian of the Galaxy (PS4 and PS5), Red Dead Redemption 2, classics like the Uncharted (the complete), Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, Medievil, WipEout Omega Collection…
A total of 62 games will be available when the service is launched. There is no doubt that the catalog should grow over the months, but the sad spirits will have noted that we remain far from the “more than 400 games” promised. It should nevertheless be noted, despite the absence of real novelties, a selection of quality, varied, and not stingy in big releases.
Subscribers to the Premium level (€17/month or €120/year) will also be entitled to a selection of downloadable brand classics, as well as the possibility of streaming a library of PS3 games. The classics in question are 28 in number (yes, that’s not much), including games from the Jak & Daxter license, Forbidden Siren, Bioshock Remastered, or even the Siphon Filter from the first PlayStation.
As for PS3 games, porting them represents a technical challenge that Sony has not yet succeeded in meeting. The games (29 at launch) will therefore only be playable in streaming, via the cloud. Among those, we find Ico, the InFamous games, the Ratchet & Clank games, the little pearl Puppeteer or the too underestimated Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
In general, we will therefore find on this new PS Plus a selection of games that are probably a little too collected (less than 120 titles including streamed PS3 games), but titles that have made PlayStation famous. A double-edged catalog, too, because if many of these titles are unmissable, they will have already been browsed by a majority of players…
The new PS Plus formula arrives in Europe on June 23rdand you can find all the titles of the line up on PlayStation Blog.