Sony, however, consistently kept on its lips and avoided touching the subject. By the time. The Japanese have just announced the launch of a new service, which is to be a combination of PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now subscriptions (the latter has never officially come to Poland).
Here’s the new PlayStation Plus. Three thresholds and three / four subscriptions
In the new PlayStation Plus, the focus is on delivering an engaging game subscription service with curated content from our PlayStation Studios team and our third party partners. The new and better PlayStation Plus offering will allow our fans to discover and enjoy more content than ever before, and deepen their bond with the PlayStation community through shared experiences.
– emphasized Jim Ryan, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The new Sony subscription service will stay launched in june and will come in several variants. The first (PlayStation Plus Essential) will offer the benefits offered by PlayStation Plus today in a higher variant (Extra) players will have access to over 400 games from the PS4 and PS5 catalog, and in the most expensive variant (Premium) there are also classic titles from PS2 and PS3 consoles.
The details of the offer are as follows:
PlayStation Plus Essential
- PlayStation Plus equivalent.
- Two downloads a month.
- Discounts and rebates.
- Store your saved games in the cloud.
- Access to the game on the network.
- Price: € 8.99 per month / € 24.99 per quarter / € 59.99 per year.
PlayStation Plus Extra
- All the benefits of the PlayStation Plus Essential variant.
- Access to the catalog of up to 400 games for PS4 and PS5.
- Access to games offered by PlayStation Studios and from external partners.
- Price: € 13.99 monthly / € 39.99 quarterly / € 99.99 yearly.
PlayStation Plus Premium
- All the benefits of the PlayStation Plus Essential and Extra variants.
- Access to the catalog of 340 games from PlayStation 3 (streaming) as well as PlayStation, PS2 and PSP (streaming + downloadable to console memory).
- Access to game streaming from PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS4 in markets where PlayStation Now is currently available.
- Customers can stream games using PS4 and PS5 consoles and PCs.
- Access to trial versions of games for customers to try before purchasing.
- Price: € 16.99 per month / € 49.99 per quarter / € 119.99 per year
In addition, in the markets where the game streaming in the cloud (PlayStation Now) has been unavailable so far (i.e. in Poland), there will be variant PlayStation Plus Deluxethat will be offered at a lower price than the Premium variant and will include the benefits of the Essential and Extra variants, a catalog of classic PS1, PS2, and PSP downloads, as well as game trials.
Sony announces that at the start of the service in the Extra, Premium and Deluxe variants, such titles as Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11 and Returnal will appear.
The fight with the Xbox will not be easy
There is a difficult task ahead of Sony’s new service. She will face Game Pass, which has been consistently building its position on the gaming market for several years. There is no need to convince anyone about the success of Game Pass. According to the data shared by Microsoft itself, “Netflix for games” is used by more than 18 million users worldwide.
The principles of XGP are simple. In exchange for a fixed monthly fee, users get access to a catalog of several hundred games – both fresh titles from Xbox Game Studios developers and classic productions from Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles.
Recall that Microsoft offers Xbox users three different subscriptions:
- Xbox Game Pass – access to the catalog of 100 games + Xbox Game Studios games available on the day of the premiere (PLN 40).
- PC Game Pass – access to the catalog of 100 PC games + Xbox Game Studios games for PC available on the day of the premiere (PLN 39.99).
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – access to the catalog of 100 games for consoles and PC + Xbox Game Studios games available on the day of the premiere + playing in the cloud + Xbox Live Gold + EA Play (PLN 54.99).
Source: Gazeta
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