PlayStation Plus overhaul announced, premium tier has catalog of PS1, PS2, and PSP games

Tatsuna · Mar 30, 2022

chrisrlink said:
you don't know anything do you Japan are so "traditional" they are practically racist to non asian people (not to hate crime extent though) but you try working for nintendo directly in Kyoto as a non Asian I've heard they disregard your degree and use you as an errand boy and nothing more

Based Japan?

Moon164 · Mar 30, 2022

I'll be honest, if Sony can find a way to reduce the subscription price, they can make me give up on an Xbox.

Until then, I still think GamePass is better, but this is far from bad.

HarveyHouston · Mar 30, 2022

OMG. $120 a year for Premium? Pardon my language, but that's pretty damn expensive. Still, you can get the basics of PlayStation Plus (the current version) and PlayStation Now for less than that, which is what I predicted (in the Extra tier), so...

But still, $120 a year for retro gaming is not what I want to spend my life savings on. That's a pretty big bill to pay, even for a yearly subscription. I could've subscribed to a yearly subscription of everything DC Comics for less than that ($99), and I thought THAT was expensive!

Viri · Mar 30, 2022

Sony: WHAT THE FUCK IS A VITA?!

nikeymikey · Mar 30, 2022

Seems like a half assed attempt at Game Pass to me.

"Pay us monthly to play games you own on past gen PS systems without getting your old consoles out" No thanks.

I was sceptical about the whole subscription thing until I got my Series X, now I wouldn't go without my Ultimate GP sub.
Thing with the Sony offer is... Having a hacked PS4 kinda negates the need for the sub service and I cant connect my console to PSN anyway.
My PS5 still remains unopened from Xmas last year as so far there's been nothing that I wanna play enough to warrant opening it up.

My mate just stated he was going to jump in on this just for the PS3 games.... I just told him to dig out his old PS3 and hack it then he can get any game he wants from the interwebz and no streaming involved

Even buying used PS3 would be cheaper than the subs if you just want to play PS3 games again...

ZeroT21 · Mar 30, 2022

nikeymikey said:
Seems like a half assed attempt at Game Pass to me.

"Pay us monthly to play games you own on past gen PS systems without getting your old consoles out" No thanks.

I was sceptical about the whole subscription thing until I got my Series X, now I wouldn't go without my Ultimate GP sub.
Thing with the Sony offer is... Having a hacked PS4 kinda negates the need for the sub service and I cant connect my console to PSN anyway.
My PS5 still remains unopened from Xmas last year as so far there's been nothing that I wanna play enough to warrant opening it up.

My mate just stated he was going to jump in on this just for the PS3 games.... I just told him to dig out his old PS3 and hack it then he can get any game he wants from the interwebz and no streaming involved
Even buying used PS3 would be cheaper than the subs if you just want to play PS3 games again...

Yeah, PS3 emulation itself is fully possible with the PS5 hardware, but sony would rather not invest and use the cheap and easy solution, cus in he end we don't really ever get to keep the games anyways

Dr_Faustus · Mar 30, 2022

ZeroT21 said:
Yeah, PS3 emulation itself is fully possible with the PS5 hardware, but sony would rather not invest and use the cheap and easy solution, cus in he end we don't really ever get to keep the games anyways

I swear every other day as much as Sony likes to distance itself from the PS3 era, the PS5 era is going to look as bad as the PS3 era if they keep up the anti-consumer moves.

64bitmodels · Mar 30, 2022

Dr_Faustus said:
I swear every other day as much as Sony likes to distance itself from the PS3 era, the PS5 era is going to look as bad as the PS3 era if they keep up the anti-consumer moves.

they seem to like distancing themselves from the vita more judging by how they didn't even bother emulating it or adding it to any tier....

Cyan · Mar 30, 2022

Tsukiru said:
And "Time-limited game trials will also be offered in this tier, so customers can try select games before they buy."??? Just kind of weird.

You are right, this feels weird :
Pay monthly to test game without paying...

I think the time-limited game trial should be available for everyone, even without PS+ ! This would be a real "test before buying".
All games should have Demo, either specific part of the game (decided by the developers) or start of the game with a limited time you can play (1 hour for example) or first level, first track, etc.
And not starting from the download time, but really from the launch time!

they made that test before in UK with 2 games, and the time counter started at download.... (ADSL and slow internet people couldn't even launch their game once it was installed, too late

)

such · Mar 30, 2022

Viri said:
Sony: WHAT THE FUCK IS A VITA?!

It's Sony's WiiU, i.e. pretty much everything is ported to one of their better-selling platforms.

As much as I love the Vita - not hugely surprising.

driverdis · Mar 30, 2022

ZeroT21 said:
Yeah, PS3 emulation itself is fully possible with the PS5 hardware, but sony would rather not invest and use the cheap and easy solution, cus in he end we don't really ever get to keep the games anyways

PS3 emulation for select titles is completely possible on the PS5 hardware. RPCS3 can do it on weaker hardware than the PS5 and Sony has the advantage of being able to use their own hardware and IP do make an emulator whereas RPCS3 has to reverse engineer how a PS3 works then make code that approximates what to do (HLE) from scratch.

Tsukiru · Mar 30, 2022

Cyan said:
I think the time-limited game trial should be available for everyone, even without PS+ ! This would be a real "test before buying".
All games should have Demo, either specific part of the game (decided by the developers) or start of the game with a limited time you can play (1 hour for example) or first level, first track, etc.

You're basically paying for access to a kisok demo, a really weird "feature." Also,

Cyan said:
the time counter started at download....

U wot.

Cyan · Mar 30, 2022

It's "start of the game" for a limited time.
so you could, for example, try all the game for 1 hour each, before deciding if you want to buy it or not.
https://kotaku.com/free-ps5-game-trials-make-you-race-against-the-clock-1847793887

Like Smash Bros Time Limited emulated Retro games to discover old titles where the SSB characters come from. Except you can try only once.

Tsukiru · Mar 30, 2022

Cyan said:
It's "start of the game" for a limited time.
so you could, for example, try all the game for 1 hour each, before deciding if you want to buy it or not.
https://kotaku.com/free-ps5-game-trials-make-you-race-against-the-clock-1847793887

Like Smash Bros Time Limited emulated Retro games to discover old titles where the SSB characters come from. Except you can try only once.

Still kind of weird but whatever.

CoolMe · Mar 30, 2022

DS1 said:
I’m gonna need to see that “catalogue” of PS2 titles. I’m assuming it’s the same stuff that is available on PS3, in which case, lol.

I'm hesitant to believe that there'll be more (new) titles added to the service, but will see i guess.

Cyan said:
I hoped they made (or imagined they could)... where you could insert your official Game disc (PS1/PS2/PS3) and the console let you download the game on PS4/PS5.

Not possible for PS1 and some early PS2 CD based games, as the PS4/PS5 can't read CDs, there's no laser inside to detect & read them, only DVD/Bluray discs games for PS4, not sure about the PS5 if it can read DVDs though.
The PS3 was the last console that can read CDs.
As for PS3 games in PS4/5, there's no BC yet and until they do that it should work in theory.

Not sure how they will work with the Cloud and what they're using to achieve that, and if they ever decide to bring that functionality to the PS5, as in downloading PS3 games and playing them on the system, i hope they give you the ability to use your disc instead of forcing you buying to buy them again..

Viri said:
Sony: WHAT THE FUCK IS A VITA?!

Sad. I hope whatever handheld they release in the future will have some form of BC with the Vita titles, although not likely, but with success of the Switch there's a chance they might change their mind on it, and with all what went wrong/ happened with the Vita..

Cyan · Mar 30, 2022

ah, too bad. I thought the drive limitation could be an issue, but I wasn't sure what it was compatible with. Maybe not even DVD (or Sony would need to pay a license, right? or DVD are owned by Sony too?).

urbanman2004 · Mar 30, 2022

Kind of a lame rebuttal to what Game Pass has to offer. In terms of competition, this is just a putter; smh @Sony.

Deleted member 397813 · Mar 30, 2022

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Dubbicakes · Mar 31, 2022

TomSwitch said:
If the announcement is in English what is the chance of it not about USA? The price is in US$

It specifically says for markets without streaming, makes it very unlikely they'd offer us this cheaper mid-tier when they could charge more while locking the most wanted games behind the highest tier.

TomSwitch · Mar 31, 2022

Digs said:
It specifically says for markets without streaming, makes it very unlikely they'd offer us this cheaper mid-tier when they could charge more while locking the most wanted games behind the highest tier.

I mistook that to be the premium tier. Streaming is definitely going to be available in the US. Not every locale but I wonder if they care. They are likely go to be saying take it or leave it. The plus games has been so lousy that I haven't been a subscriber for a few months already, looks like April is still going to be bad.

By the way PS+ subscription price isn't about the same globally just like Netflix price isn't the same globally. The content offered may differ slightly from time to time but way less differentiation than Netflix when it comes to what is available.

So maybe you can consider doing your search globally for the best deal then find someone to help with the payment method check. Japanese company do like to make it difficult for you to pay them money.

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