Image: Arkane Studios via YouTube Pick a star each month and stick with it This analysis will focus instead on what PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium could do in 2023 to make for a more worthwhile subscription, rather than dwell on what Sony didn’t do in 2022.ĭeathloop, by Arkane Studios (2021) joined the PlayStation Plus Extra library in September. Not when data points like age (dozens are years old, if not a dozen years old) and whether the titles are offered on other services (many have shown up on the old PS Plus over the years) are basically moot points anyway. The flood of games added to the two higher tiers of PS Plus - 240 in all - isn’t really worth parsing out in the same way we analyze the smaller collection of PS Plus Essential games. PS Plus Essential even had two day-and-date PlayStation launches in 2022. It seems strange that Sony would be such a holdout, when day-and-date launches are perhaps the defining feature of Xbox Game Pass, and especially when PlayStation Plus Essential has had no problem with day-and-date launches over the years - spanning titles like Rocket League to smaller indie games exclusive to the platform. Stray, a console exclusive - and an acclaimed one, to be sure - is the only title to launch on PS Plus Extra the same day as its general release. That’s Sony’s choice, for sure, but it’s not like it’s roping third party publishers into launching on Extra or Premium, either. Second is the fact Sony is on the record saying it won’t launch first-party games on PS Plus’ upper tiers of service. PlayStation Plus Essential is still $9.99 a month. The problem is that everything does stick, making it next to impossible for the subscription to have a big name game that stands out, much less justifies the $14.99 (Extra) or $17.99 (Premium) every month.

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium feels like Sony, with help from third-party publishers, is throwing things at the wall in hope something sticks. The rest are streamable classics from the PlayStation 3 generation and earlier.) That’s a lot of games, more than double what Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers currently have access to (thanks to the inclusion of the EA Play library).īut that’s also because Xbox Game Pass is curated, with games rotating out as new ones are added.

( About 450 are PS4 and PS5 games, which form the core of the service and are available to PlayStation Plus Extra subscribers. PlayStation Plus’ free games for 2022: The most value for the least costīy year’s end, PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers - the top level of service - had access to more than 1,000 games.

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