This time that’s it, Sony Playstation has finally lifted the veil on its new subscription service, with the addition of two new formulas that will be available to everyone in a few weeks. By diversifying its offer, the Japanese manufacturer will above all take advantage of it to merge the content of its Playstation Now offer with the already existing Playstation Plus. In this article, we will come back point by point to all the information necessary for a good understanding of what will happen for the Playstation Plus subscription. For the detail of the offers and the associated asterisks, please refer to the official post of Playstation on their official blogthe information that we deemed essential is in bold in this complete recap of this big announcement of the day.
Merging of PS Plus and PS Now
This is one of the major advances offered by this new offer:Playstation Now entity wasn’t popular, bringing it directly under the much more popular Playstation Plus umbrella should help subscription to download games from many generations of Playstation machines. In addition, Sony plans to highlight its studios directly in its services, with the arrival at launch of games such as Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11 or Returnal. Note, and this is important, that Playstation Now subscribers will migrate directly to a Playstation Plus Premium subscription at the time of the merger.
Release date
These are major changes to the Playstation eco-system, so Sony has plans to roll out its new subscription services region by region. The release date of the service is set for June, without further details for the moment, we will have to wait a bit to get all the details from the manufacturer.
Demos and retro catalog
The rumors of recent weeks concerning this new Playstation Plus: demos will be available and premium status will allow access to old cult titles from older generations of machines. This new organization is therefore indeed Sony’s response to the Xbox Game Pass service, with a premium subscription, quite close to the GP Ultimate proposal on the Microsoft side. However, MS’s proposal is now well anchored in people’s minds and many third-party publishers and independent studios have been working for months to expand its catalog.it will in any case be interesting to see if the players will show particular interest in the two new subscriptions of the Playstation consoles.
Playstation Plus Essentials: Pricing and Benefits
Benefits
- Provides benefits PlayStation Plus subscribers already have: Two downloadable games each month
- Exclusive discounts
- Cloud storage for game saves
- Access to online multiplayer
- This tier has no changes for currently subscribed players. to PlayStation Plus.
- The price* of the PlayStation Plus Essential subscription remains the same as the current price of the PlayStation Plus subscription.
Price
- €8.99 per month
- €24.99 per term
- €59.99 per year
Playstation Plus Extra: Prices and benefits
Benefits
- Provides all the benefits of the Essential tier
- Also offers a catalog of around 400* of the best PS4 and PS5 gamesincluding hits from our PlayStation Studios catalog and our third-party partners.
- Extra tier games can be downloaded for offline access.
Price
- €13.99 per month
- €39.99 per quarter
- €99.99 per year
Playstation Plus Premium: Prices and Benefits
Benefits
- Provides all the benefits of the Essential and Extra Tiers
- Offers approximately 340* additional games, including: PS3 games available via cloud streaming; a catalog of great classics, available for streaming or download among PlayStation, PS2 and PSP games.
- Cloud streaming access to PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS4 games Extra and Premium tiers in markets** currently offering the PlayStation Now service. Customers can stream to PS4 and PS5 consoles, as well as PC***.
- Limited-time trial versions will also be offered at this level, allowing players to test them before buying them.
Price
- €16.99 per month
- €49.99 per term
- €119.99 per year
What you must remember
This is surely the main concern for long-time PS Plus subscribers: no, your existing benefits will not change with the arrival of all these changes. Your offer is simply called PS Plus Essentials, but you have the exact same benefits as before. From the Extra level on the other hand, you will have access to several hundred games available for download, with a list updated regularly over the months. Finally for the relentless, the big added value is the addition of demos to download and access to several dozen retro games from different gen Playstations. We will have to see what Sony’s catalog offers concretely and if nostalgic players will manage to find themselves in this toy library: we sincerely hope that many cult JRPGs (for example) will be unearthed to make the precious rope vibrate, especially given the price while similarly quite high from the Playstation Plus Premium offer.
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