All-new PlayStation Plus launches in June with 700+ games and more value than ever

[BigMoTwentySeven]

Can please anyone answer my cuestion:

 

If you only have PS Now, you will get PS Plus Premium and if you only have PS Plus, you will get PS Plus Essential?

 

I've got PS Plus for 1 year a few days ago and I'm now forced to pay another 60 euros to get premium when the service release?

 

Wouldn't it make sense if you need both to get PS Plus Premium instead of just PS Now or do I misunderstood something?

[rafatsilva]

1 hour ago, BigMoTwentySeven said:

Can please anyone answer my cuestion:

 

If you only have PS Now, you will get PS Plus Premium and if you only have PS Plus, you will get PS Plus Essential?

 

I've got PS Plus for 1 year a few days ago and I'm now forced to pay another 60 euros to get premium when the service release?

 

Wouldn't it make sense if you need both to get PS Plus Premium instead of just PS Now or do I misunderstood something?

 

What i hear is realy this. PS Now will be converted to Plus Premium and PS Plus will be converted to Essential, but i don't know how to do any upgrade if you only have PS Plus.

 

I'm from Brazil and we don't have the PS Now service, so everyone in here will be transfered to Essential.

 

So....i really want to play PS3 games, but saddly we don't have the PS Plus Premium :'(

Hey Sony, look for Brazil!!

[ZandatsuRising]

Yeah. More Abo crap...

 

Ill szay with ps+ and only buying my right to play online. 

 

I dont need anymore

[Cryogenicide_X]

So is this launching in June? Or between now and June and it should be fully released by June. 

Edited March 31, 2022 by Cryogenicide_X

[jgm4789]

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000?cartAction=buynow&skuId=IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000-UJ01&upSellService=NONE

Found this while browsing reddit(us only, if anyone can find a link that works with other psn regions please share). Was able to top up my psnow subscription for 2 years using this link(i did it in the ps4 browser btw). Take advantage before sony discovers it and shuts it down.

Edit:sony fixed the exploit. Congrats to anyone who took advantage.

Edited April 5, 2022 by jgm4789
Updated info

[racing-anime45]

why are they going to combine ps plus and ps now it dos not make any sense to me 

[SKiL_Clash]

Because it’s easier? 

[racing-anime45]

okay that makes sence are you going to use it that ps game pass? skill_clash

[Helyx]

It's a unified service umbrella with paywall tiers to cater to the needs of the individual. What's not to understand?

[racing-anime45]

i understand now thanks 

[theSpirae]

7 hours ago, jgm4789 said:

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000?cartAction=buynow&skuId=IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000-UJ01&upSellService=NONE

Found this while browsing reddit(us only, if anyone can find a link that works with other psn regions please share). Was able to top up my psnow subscription for 2 years using this link(i did it in the ps4 browser btw). Take advantage before sony discovers it and shuts it down.

 

If it's going to work as people expect, it means having only PS Now (no Plus) will automatically convert the account to the new Playstation Plus Premium?

[Jelly Soup]

16 hours ago, Helyx said:

It's a unified service umbrella with paywall tiers to cater to the needs of the individual. What's not to understand?

 

Why Sony thinks $120 is an attractive price for the diet coke of BC.

I mean I'll still buy it for a year and see, but I'm also still going to complain about it.

[MonaSaxPayne]

51 minutes ago, Jelly Soup said:

 

Why Sony thinks $120 is an attractive price for the diet coke of BC.

I mean I'll still buy it for a year and see, but I'm also still going to complain about it.

 

that'll show 'em buddy

 

we all know companies pay more attention to the customer complaints section instead of the revenue income on their quarterly/yearly financial reports 

[Forlorn_Zorn]

The top tier is too expensive for me, but I will admit that's still a good price. However, will there be trophy support for everything on offer?

[Jelly Soup]

1 hour ago, MonaSaxPayne said:

 

that'll show 'em buddy

 

we all know companies pay more attention to the customer complaints section instead of the revenue income on their quarterly/yearly financial reports 

 

Not gonna matter either way, really. One purchase from me or zero purchases from me aren't going to show up on any metrics.

[Aodir]

On 31/03/2022 at 9:54 AM, BigMoTwentySeven said:

Wouldn't it make sense if you need both to get PS Plus Premium instead of just PS Now or do I misunderstood something?

 

 

It's more based on how to convert your costumers subscriptions and have them keep all the features they previously paid for, it just so happens that to match current PS Now subscriptions they need to be bumped to Premium, same can't be said for Plus which is essentially (pun) Essentials.

 

On 03/04/2022 at 3:32 AM, jgm4789 said:

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000?cartAction=buynow&skuId=IP9101-NPIA90010_01-PSNOWSUB12MO0000-UJ01&upSellService=NONE

Found this while browsing reddit(us only, if anyone can find a link that works with other psn regions please share). Was able to top up my psnow subscription for 2 years using this link(i did it in the ps4 browser btw). Take advantage before sony discovers it and shuts it down.

Here's the UK link but seems to work for any EU country as long as you previously signed in - https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/IP9102-NPIA90011_01-PSNOWSUBS00365V2

EDIT: Links seem to be down now.

Edited April 5, 2022 by Aodir

[jgm4789]

Welp, sony officially closed the loophole to get plus premium half off. So now the only option left is to pay in full at release or buy 12 1 month subs(which is the same price as plus premium)since psnow cards are starting to not work(physical cards at least)

[DION3TO]

There's no PS Now here in Brazil (which is ridiculous since Microsoft has released their Cloud Gaming throughout the country with no major issues whatsoever).
So I'll have to stick to either PS Plus Extra or Deluxe (day one catalog will help me decide here).  

[MANU1950]

Hey guys. 

 

Do you think that the ps1-ps2-psp versions can bring trophies?

[Jelly Soup]

4 hours ago, MANU1950 said:

Hey guys. 

 

Do you think that the ps1-ps2-psp versions can bring trophies?

 

The possibility is there, but it really comes down to whoever owns the publishing rights as to if the expense of deving some achievement flags is worth it or not.

[DION3TO]

4 hours ago, MANU1950 said:

Hey guys. 

 

Do you think that the ps1-ps2-psp versions can bring trophies?

I personally believe Sony / publishers won't bother the effort of doing such thing (but I wish they would). 

[Paperclip1776]

On 4/3/2022 at 5:54 PM, Jelly Soup said:

 

Why Sony thinks $120 is an attractive price for the diet coke of BC.

I mean I'll still buy it for a year and see, but I'm also still going to complain about it.

 

I think Sony feels $120 for the Premium tier is a good value because it has 700+ games available across that tier.  Now, whether you see a value in about 340 games for PS1, PS2, PSP, and PS3 (via cloud streaming only) and about 400 games downloadable for PS4/5 is a personal choice.  Overall, I see a value in the number of titles but I'm personally disappointed that PS3 games are cloud streaming only.  That might be a deterrent for me to get the Premium tier but if I'm looking at this objectively, I think it's a good value overall.

[AJ_Radio]

2 hours ago, Paperclip1776 said:

 

I think Sony feels $120 for the Premium tier is a good value because it has 700+ games available across that tier.  Now, whether you see a value in about 340 games for PS1, PS2, PSP, and PS3 (via cloud streaming only) and about 400 games downloadable for PS4/5 is a personal choice.  Overall, I see a value in the number of titles but I'm personally disappointed that PS3 games are cloud streaming only.  That might be a deterrent for me to get the Premium tier but if I'm looking at this objectively, I think it's a good value overall.

 

The PS3 itself was designed in a way that many developers had a hard time coding for the system back when the PS3 was current and relevant. It was a serious mistake on Sony's end considering they had such a horrendous start in the late 2000s when it looked like the Xbox 360 was going to run away with the competition. Xbox 360 games are fully backwards compatible, whereas for PS3 games your only choices are to stream them via PS Now or have an actual PS3 console.

 

I still have my PS3 hooked up, I feel it's still a solid system. No need to worry about PS Now suddenly getting games taken off for no good reason. I don't buy into the games as a service thing, because that's essentially what PS Now is. You're just streaming and downloading games, you don't own any of them and it's pretty clear that Sony, Microsoft and others are desperately trying to drift away from physical.

 

Unfortunately a lot of games these days tend to be digital only so I have little choice but to buy them in that format. I prefer physical because it doesn't account for any package tier, plus I'm able to sell them at any time at various pawn shops, gaming stores and on online websites such as eBay. You cannot do that with digital. In recent times companies have made an effort to refund customers their money if they weren't happy with the purchases they made online.

 

Sony is no different now than Netflix, Amazon Prime and all the other streaming services. This new PlayStation Plus is the best way to stay relevant and keeping up with the times. But it's another reason for me not to bother with modern gaming and just stick with legacy systems that I know will work even long after support for them is stopped.

[steel6burgh]

15 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

Sony is no different now than Netflix, Amazon Prime and all the other streaming services. This new PlayStation Plus is the best way to stay relevant and keeping up with the times.

Yea and if you really think about how netflix has ruined the movie industry from the quantity and quality of movies and Amazon the price point now it costs 6.99 to rent b class movies where as it used to cost 3.99 at blockbuster for top hollywood productions.  Not to mention amazon has a game loaded on a server for download blockbuster used to have to employee thousands of people and maintain about 1000 store fronts across the country.  The movies star is disappearing from existence.  Where are todays's 20 million a film actors?  don't got to pay them that much anymore people seem to be just as content sitting at home binge watching some b class series full of a bunch of actors you never heard of.  

 

Same thing is going to happen to gaming.  the quality of the games will be effected when they all realize people will settle for crap if you give it to them at a price point they can afford and they don't have to go outside their home and interact with people god forbid.  It's already happening if you think about it.  

[Jelly Soup]

These Plus and Gamepass type services all have the same issues Netflix and Prime have. A million choices at a cheap price means you'll pay for access all million options and use maybe ten or so. It's easy to say 'such and such is a service problem' when the problem is also the customer.