![]() ![]() We have a sneaking suspicion that the games Sony chooses to bring to PC aren't random though.ĭeath Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Days Gone are all new IPs in the PlayStation universe, perhaps too new to be considered PlayStation icons and still relatively unknown to the wider gaming community outside of PlayStation gamers. Then, games from Sony’s first-party studios started coming to PC, like Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn, and Sony has promised more games will come to PC, too, like the recently announced Days Gone port. This began with titles like Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human, Nioh, and Yakuza, which were originally developed by third-party studios exclusively for PlayStation platforms. PlayMan Jim Ryan said, "The level of investment that we need to make in our studios would not be possible, and we think the knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want.(Image credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment)Īfter decades of exclusivity, we have started to see some of the best PS4 exclusives or earlier arrive on PC. They think their first-party games might suffer for it. While Microsoft put their new games on Game Pass on launch day, Sony will not. If you do have a PlayStation, by the way, you might want to read 's interview with the CEO of PlayStation. As they cautiously release older games on PC (God Of War just came out in January), the next game confirmed is Uncharted 4 with its expansion. They're looking to start offering cloud streaming in more countries, too.Īnd hopefully they'll announce a proper PC release for Bloodborne one day, sheesh. They plan to start the PS Plus changeover in June in Asia, followed by North America, Europe, and other places with PSN, hoping to have changed over in most territories by the end of the first half of 2022. ![]() ![]() Hopefully as the relaunch nears, Sony will start to talk PC specifics. Given that PS Now costs half as much as Plus Premium (£9 a month, £50 a year), paying full price for PS Plus Premium could be distinctly less appealing if you don't own a console to use the other benefits. While Sony say that "PlayStation Now customers will migrate over to PlayStation Plus Premium with no increase to their current subscription fees at launch," it's not clear how long that will last-"at launch" could mean only temporarily. If the streaming library isn't significantly improved, this might be a bum deal for people currently paying Sony to stream PlayStation games on PC. The rest, well, I hope so? Would be nice to have Spider-Man? That last one is a PlayStation 5 exclusive, so it wouldn't be available on PC through cloud gaming. The only games confirmed for the new PS Plus are Death Stranding, God Of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, Mortal Kombat 11, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Returnal. They've barely mentioned any games at all. They haven't listed the games that will be available for streaming on PC. Sony's main focus today was clearly consoles. It's not currently clear which games will be available to stream on PC, nor how this PS Plus Premium library will be different from the current PlayStation Now catalogue. While the Plus library includes some PlayStation 5 games, those are not available for streaming, and so not for us. For a fee of £13.49 monthly, £39.99 quarterly, or £99.99 annually (that's $17.99/$49.99/$119.99 in USD, or €16.99/€49.99/€119.99), Plus Premium will offer cloud streaming access to a library of hundreds of PlayStation 4, PS3, PS2, PSone, and PSP games. Premium includes access to cloud gaming, making it a replacement for PlayStation Now. The highest new tier, PlayStation Plus Premium, is the only one which matters to us here on PC. The big change is that the higher Plus tiers will include access to libraries of games from across decades of PlayStation consoles, basically making it more like Microsoft's Game Pass. PS Now is how you can play games like Bloodborne on PC right now (albeit in murky, laggy, vaporous form). PS Plus is currently the subscription service which offers access to online multiplayer (yes, in the year of our Molyneux 2022, you have to pay for that) plus a rolling selection of 'free' games, while PS Now is the cloud gaming service which lets you play a selection of games without downloading them or even having a PlayStation. Sony's announcement explains they're merging PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into one service with three tiers. ![]()
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