PS Plus With Three New Price Options
Sony has announced the changes to the PS Plus subscription. Fropm now on we will get three variants - each with a different price, the priciest option offering backward compatibility with PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP.
Rumors have been confirmed - Sony has announced changes to the PS Plus subscription, designed to put it in competition with Microsoft's PC/Xbox Game Pass. Reports from industry insiders spoke of new names: the working name Project Spartacus and the allegedly final name PlayStation Infinite. Ultimately, Sony decided to stick with PlayStation Plus and introduce three subscription tiers.
The new plan will go into effect at the beginning of June 2022.
PlayStation Plus Essential
The first tier will offer exactly what you currently gain when you buy PS Plus, which is two downloadable games per month, special discounts in the PS Store, the ability to store save game data in the cloud and play online.
The price won't change either. A 30-day access to PlayStation Plus Essential will cost €8.99, which is the same as a month of PS Plus subscription currently.
PlayStation Plus Extra
The second tier of subscription will offer all of the first one, plus access to a library of around 400 of the most popular games released on PS4 and PS5. It will include both titles from PlayStation Studios family devs, as well as from third-party companies. Importantly, all these games will offer the option to download game files to local storage.
The price? 13.99 euros.
PlayStation Plus Premium
As for the last variant of the subscription, it will offer everything I described above, plus another 340 games - from PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP. The catch is that at least some of them - including all the PlayStation 3 titles - will be available on PS4, PS5 and PC only through streaming. In other words, the full offer will benefit only those living in countries where the PS Now service is currently available.
It is worth noting here that the corresponding asterisk does not appear with PS3 games. Most likely this is a mistake, although there is a shadow of hope that the games from the 7th-gen console, however, will be available in some countries.
The highest variant of Sony's subscription is to cost 16.99 euros per month. If some of its features will not work in some countries, it is possible that the price will be adjusted accordingly.
