For its Asia launch, the PS Plus Premium failed to deliver a decent experience for classic PlayStation 1 games. But Sony is teasing a big change coming soon.
The new PS+ offers have been available for a few hours in Europe, including in France, but not everything is ready yet. Far from it. The experience of classic PS Plus Premium games is indeed criticized with emulators deemed very disappointing, despite the very good options to improve the apps (including trophies). But in addition, retro PS1 titles are largely based on PAL versions and only run at 50Hz. Instead of the 60Hz allowed by the NTSC versions. Good news, Sony will fix this.
PS Plus Premium: PS1 games at 60Hz in Europe
PS1 games at 50Hz via the PS Plus Premium will “soon” be ancient history. Via its official Twitter accounts, PlayStation says it is working on the rollout ” NTSC options for a majority of Classic games offered in P offersS Plus Premium and Deluxe in Asia, Europe, India, South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand and the Middle East ».
Translation: a good number of PS Plus Premium PS1 games will eventually run at 60Hz and no longer at 50Hz. A solution that, we hope, will solve the problem permanently. Previously, Sony tried a patch for “improve the rendering of PAL games”, without success. Well yes, but not the one expected. Retro games had become ugly due to significant ghosting (residue of ghost images). According to VGC, of the titles tested by them, more than half had this lower frequency concern.