Of course, if you’re looking purely at the numbers, the change makes a lot of sense. The new iteration adds PS One and PSP games to the download and streaming side of the catalog, so our cake gets a tiny bit more frosting. PlayStation Now was a collection of PS2, PS3, PS4, and a scant few PS5 games for streaming or download. You gain access to online multiplayer, cloud storage for game saves, monthly games, and downloading or streaming games across nearly every PlayStation platform… with caveats. This is a new tier of service - the current PS Plus alongside a tiny chunk of PS Now - for $14.99 per month.įinally, there’s PlayStation Plus Premium, which is mostly what you would currently have if you subscribed to both PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now. The next tier is PlayStation Plus Extra, which gives you everything in Essential plus a limited library of PS4 and PS5 games for download.

Essential is just what you get for PlayStation Plus now. For $9.99 a month, you get online multiplayer, cloud storage for game saves, and monthly game offerings. The first tier is PlayStation Plus Essential. Now, both of these will be combined into a single service called PlayStation Plus, which will offer three tiers. Up until now, Sony had two different subscription services: PlayStation Plus for online services and some other perks for $9.99 a month or $59.99, and PlayStation Now for game streaming for a few current-gen and classic titles for $9.99 a month. Well, even a “revamp” is a bit strong - this is more of a logistical change. Sony’s answer to Xbox Game Pass is a revamp of PlayStation Plus.

I didn’t expect much, and Sony has delivered right in line with those expectations. Today, Sony revealed the early scope of those plans. We all heard such a thing was coming back in December when Bloomberg reported Sony’s planned service would “take on Xbox Game Pass.” That conjured up a host of fancy dreams and fevered speculation: first-party games at launch, cloud streaming, and a vast catalog of new and classic titles. After hearing the praises of Xbox Game Pass for years, Sony has finally answered in kind.

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