PlayStation Plus: All information and details about the re-launch of the subscription

After recent rumors, there is now clarity: Sony has announced the details of revising the Abo Service PlayStation Plus. The changes will enter into force from June 2022. So Sony answers the most popular Game Pass of Microsoft, but the model is not fully copied, but you go his own way.

In the future, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now will be merged into a single PlayStation Plus subservice. To launch three different tariffs are available: PlayStation Plus Essential offers the same advantages that subscribers of PlayStation Plus already have today, such as two monthly downloadable games, exclusive discounts, cloud storage for stored games or online multiplayer -Access. PlayStation Plus Essential will be 8.99 euros per month / 24.99 euros quarterly / 59.99 euros annually costs.

With the tariff PlayStation Plus Extra you can play or download in addition to the advantages of the previous tariff up to 400 ps4 and PS5 games online, among them should also be first party titles. Among others, Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, Mortal Kombat 11 and Return are available at the launch. The price will be here at 13.99 euros per month / 39.99 euros quarterly / 99.99 euros annually.

PlayStation Plus Premium is the third and most expensive tariff. Here comes to the advantages of previous tariffs still the possibility to stream PS3 games. But a catalog from PlayStation, PlayStation-2 and PSP classics can either be streamed or downloaded and offline. It will also be able to use subscribers from PlayStation Plus Premium to use temporary test versions of games to try the titles before buying. The costs for this premium tariff are 16.99 euros per month / 49.99 euros quarterly / 119.99 euros annually. All PlayStation Now customers automatically migrate to the PlayStation Premium tariff.

The losers of the changeover are definitely the PC players here. Just like playstation now, the games should be streamed over the PC. However, this will only work with the most expensive tariff PlayStation Premium. Currently, the PlayStation NOW subscription costs 9.99 euros, which includes the same advantages as the PlayStation Premium Abo, with the exception of the PS5 games that are not available at PlayStation Now at the current time. While the whole thing for PlayStation players is quite an improvement, PC players must pay 7 euros more in the future in order to stream appropriate titles and have to do without first party titles.

Already now is known that PlayStation first-party games will not be available directly on the day of the release for the revised PlayStation Plus. _ "[When it comes to putting our own games in this service or any other at the same time as a release... Well, you yourself know that is not the way we have chosen in the past. And it's not the Way, which we will choose with this new service. ", PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says Gamesindustry to the plans. _ "In the way our publishing model works, it simply does not make sense to do that. But as we all know, things can change rapidly in this industry" , says Ryan. The statement that First Party Games will not appear directly to the launch in the subscription service, so it does not seem to be carved in stone and could change in the future.