![]() Players can stream these back catalog games to a PS4, PS5 or PC.Players can download or stream PS1, PS3 and PSP games.Access and download a catalog of up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games.Two rotating, downloadable games per month.Here's an additional breakdown as well to make it even easier to understand. Just want to play online? Go for Essential it's as simple as that. Feeling nostalgic? Go all out on the Premium tier. In summary interested in playing more PS4 and PS5 games? Aim for the Extra tier. If you opt for the most expensive plan, PS Plus Premium, you're gaining additional access to PS1, PS2, PSP, and PS3 titles, on top of everything else the Extra and Essential tiers provide. Moving up a tier, to PS Plus Extra, you’re getting new PS4 and PS5 games each month, alongside the slew of PlayStation content already available (around 400 games), and everything PS Plus Essential provides. Essential provides access to online play, cloud saves, two free games a month, and discounts on the PS Store. For PC players this all just looks muddled, and a worse deal than ever before.PS Plus Essential is the easiest to define, as it's what PS Plus has always been. For Sony there have been positive signs-finally porting God of War was a very welcome move-but those are hard to square with the new PlayStation Plus. Now the consoles are almost becoming optional hardware, particularly in the case of Xbox, and these industry giants are gradually working out what their future on PC will look like.įor Microsoft and Xbox Game Pass, it looks bright. ![]() It is a strange time to be a PC gamer, because the consoles always used to be 'over there' somehow, distinct in what they offered and with little PC crossover. That said, at least it was its own service-now it feels like PC streaming of PlayStation games is just being rolled into a wider category, and Sony's decided it wants to put the screws to PC gamers. PS Now always felt like a slightly odd fit on PC, and you could sense from the product's lack of polish that it wasn't seen as any sort of a priority. The PC side of the service has become even more of an afterthought than usual. But limiting the PC audience to Premium and effectively doubling the price of streaming PlayStation games on PC comes across like a statement. Part of that is making its console the most attractive place to play PlayStation games. It is understandable that PlayStation, a brand built upon its own bespoke hardware, wants to keep the biggest chunk of its business on that hardware. $120 a year, when I think of how else that could be spent on PC, is not attractive. But we're talking PC here, an ecosystem with endless dirt-cheap games and a variety of competitive subscription offerings, and one where the allure of old PS3, PS2 and PSP games is perhaps not quite so shining. I mean… if you're exclusively a PlayStation player, that is no doubt a decent deal. If you wanted to play devil's advocate for Sony, the only real argument is how much more the Premium sub offers than the current PS Now subscription: over 700 games, all the benefits of the lower tiers, and a game trial system for any games not included. But, at the same time it remains the only way to play Bloodborne on PC. PS Now always felt a bit more half-hearted on PC than it did on console (thanks largely to a terrible desktop app). It even recently created a Playstation PC label. Of course it has to take care of its bread-and-butter console audience, but in recent years has been more open to the opportunities for PlayStation games on PC.
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