NEW PlayStation Plus - Before You Buy

The new PS Plus for PS4 and PS5 is here! What's the deal with Essential, Extra, and Premium tiers? Let's talk.

[gameranxTV]

sooo...did you jump in? what do you think? it's a decent start but we'd love to see more

[michaelal]

Premium isn’t worth it yet. The classics available But the second tier is awesome, lots of exclusives like demon souls remake and Spider-Man miles morales etc .

[Divercitylife]

I was grandfathered into the Premium. I was one of the guys that bought PS Plus every time it was on sale for 30-40 USD. Im paid up until 2028. I also was subscribed to PS Now on a reoccurring payment. So Playstation threw me onto premium which still states my premium is paid up until 2028. Freaking awesome.

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I would love to see the old Battlefront games and the PSP Battlefront games come to the service. I would definitely do month to month if they did that

[Gman]

I went with extra. It was only $20 to upgrade for my yearly subscription. For all the games available for only $20 extra this year and $40 over the course of a year, that’s definitely a great way to save on buying new games. Demons souls alone is more than $40 still

[timrosborough]

The extra tier is perfect for me it seems. I'm a "patient gamer" and always end up buying and playing games about a year after release or more - so getting a bunch of games I was gonna buy all at once for the price of upgrading is nice

[LamarrWilson]

I upgraded my remaining Essential to Premium for $40 until February 2023. Let's see how cool it is!

[ThatsCoolJoshua]

I am old, so I remember when PlayStation 3 was the system with the “free online” and I also remember when Plus was one of the first to offer high-quality free games. That’s not being like “well acksually” to modern gamers, just a fond memory.

[prototypeactual]

I'm debating on getting Extra. While I understand the challenges of backwards compatibility for PS3 games, Premium is just not an option if I can't play classics locally. There's always going to be an uncontrollable and unpredictable latency. For this reason, I still keep around my classic PS3 console to play PS3 games or revisit ones I haven't played.

[paigelaverty]

For now, I’m sticking with the Essential version. I have plenty of games from the free monthly selection that I am yet to play. When I was younger I always had Nintendo and the PS4 was my first PlayStation, so I don’t really get that nostalgia from the older games offered in Premium. But, once I finish all my current games, I might switch over to Extra. This was a very helpful video by the way! I’ve been wanting to see how the game library looks since Sony announced the new services, thanks Gameranx!

[EngineFD]

I'm sticking with the 'Essential' tier for now. Going to be completely honest, I don't care about playing games that came out 15-25 years ago. I have limited time to game and just want to play the latest and greatest. Also, most of the PS4 and PS5 games that are offered are games that I've either already purchased or claimed via PS Plus. I'll see where the service is in a year and reassess.

[t_rexbricks]

I got premium because there were 8 games I saw right away that I had been wanting that weren’t available with the extra version, I think it was worth the $48, favorite so far is ghost of tsushima directors cut

[skinnybuddha]

I went with premium because it was only $20 to upgrade for another 118 days. That's not bad at all. The selection does need improvement, especially since a lot of the best games on there have been given away as PS plus games in the past. Ill definitely reconsider once my subscription expires, but im excited for what's on there. Even just playing Miled Morales was worth the upgrade cost

[rubynall]

I browsed the library, and went with the Extra. Like you said, it has a solid selection, especially considering it's a launch setup. I'm avoiding Premium, since the Classics games are severely lacking, and streaming is a huge turnoff for me.

[mariettavol]

Before the pandemic, I played exclusively sports game and a little COD. I got ps plus in February 2020, because I wanted to play Madden with my brother and friends. Safe to say, my gaming knowledge was small

My first free game was the bioshock collection for that month. Since then, I’ve branched out to different genres I’ve never touched before because of ps plus.

This service, for me, is an absolute steal. I’ll be on the premium plan for 3 years with no charge. Looking forward to trying out more titles like RE and RDR2

[jordanryan]

I like the classics they have on premium, but that selection is way too small. I feel like Sony kind of fumbled the release of the premium service by not having at least 30-40 decent psx games because there are so many good games on psx it felt kind of like they were uncertain of how much they wanted to invest themselves into the service which leads to some uncertainty among the potential subscribers. Hopefully they update the library which even if they could have opened with a lot of great games, it’s better late than never

[danielbillingsley]

As a long-term Playstation owner, it does frustrate me how they have never cared about backwards compatibility or making more classic PS1/PS2/PSP games available to play.

You only need to look at XBOX and they have a TONNE of games available in their back catalogue at no extra price, and they are reaching the point where the only games they cant add are due to licensing issues.

Personally I believe there were some really cool games from the classic era that are way more fun than games released now (some obscure childhood favourites like Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc Scare Island and a heap of Spongebob games; some less obscure like Burnout 3 and Star Wars Racer Revenge). But until Playstation add a lot more variety in that regard, I think I'll buy the Extra Subscription because there are lots of PS3 titles in the list that I used to enjoy.

[Bonus_Mosher]

Prob just a slip up, but you’re wrong about Stray, Jake!

At the state of play, they said subscribers to either extra or premium tiers get it day one. Not just premium. It would be a major L if it was just premium because that’s going to be the least subbed to tier.

Great vid as always, excited for the EU launch next month.

[lizc.]

I'd more than likely get the Extra tier subscription, like you said, it sounds solid! But mostly, I hope they fix the whole "streaming only" issue for PS3 games. I was never able to afford that console so the possibility of having those games available for download on subscription had me salivating😆 Unfortunately, I don't have great internet service so that counts me out on the streaming. Here's hoping that Sony changes that requirement!

[osmosisjones]

Who else rememebers tge good ol days when Playstation Magizine would come with ps2 disc with like 10 demos? That was cool