PlayStation Thinks Its PS Plus Games Are 'Improving' Every Year

Premium only aiming for "1 a month" and not even making it a big/in-demand title (e.g. Backwards Compatible title) is terrible, and I have no doubt they're the only ones that think the service has been "satisfactory" (the only impressive thing about it is the amount/quality of games they've taken off the service).

Staggering to think just how out of touch Corporations are with their userbases. I wish Sony would go back to offering more indies on ps plus essential, does anyone remember when they used to offer a choice of 2 titles and the users got to vote on which one we got, a great idea sadly gone now with a lot of the credibility Sony once had.In saying that, this July's offering is the best ive seen for essential in ages 👍

Won't be renewing premium at this rate I'll just buy the classics I like. One a month is joke.

Extra is great. People need to keep their expectations in check. For the price of 2 AAA games you get lots of stuff during the year.

Essential is fantastic with 3 games a month extra and premium are awful just concentrate on Essential and I'll be happy because I won't pay the extra for the other services complete rubbish

@Jrs1 yeah I remember. I think they did that a handful of times before they stopped.

For $13.30 a month (if paid yearly) i think Premium is a good deal. $11.25/month for Extra is even better.

Sure, first party often takes 1 year or more to come to the service. But then again, you also pay less than competing services that do offer Day One first party. You can’t really expect to get Day One first party on PS Plus for such low prices. So i think what they offer is fair.

They offer access to 700+ games, even some Day Ones, 4K cloud streaming, a rotating movie catalogue, retro games, PSVR2 games and the value they add monthly is usually more than $100 (if we go by store prices) worth of games. In any other industry that would be amazing value.

For comparison, GeForce Now Ultimate is $30/month and thats a streaming only service. Game Pass offers Day One forst party, but also costs $20/month.

I honestly think some are setting their expectations a bit too high. If Playstation were to offer Day One first party titles it’d have to cost at least somewhere between $22 to $25/month. You can’t expect Sony to give their titles away Day One for just $13 or $11/month, that would be a ridiculous demand

It would be fine if it was actually just the odd month out of a year that PS Plus doesn't hit. At the moment if I can get one or two games out of the entire year it's been a good year.

At the moment 6 months into the year PS Plus hasn't even managed to pass that very low bar.

So no for me it hasn't improved and hasn't offered any value beyond giving me access to multiplayer.

@Americansamurai1 Yeah i thought it was a great idea although i lost out once and got Action Henk but that turned out not bad anyways 🤣

Its been useful for my son to have a few more games to play but I couldn't tell you the last game I played on the service, I don't even look at the announcements anymore.

These days I've only really got time to play the games I buy, take now for instance, I've just got the Switch 2 and started Death Stranding 2 yesterday and with Donkey Kong in 3 weeks, that's basically me done for the summer

Payed for PS+ from 2015 to 2023, ever since the major price hike haven’t renewed even for the most basic tier, $80 a year for online play, cloud saves and some rented games isn’t a good enough value to me.

Pretty limp compared to Gamepass but I’ve still found PSPlus Premium worth it as a good way to play/sample a large number of titles from the back catalogue. I also like the way you can also keep the games added to Essential without wondering if they will disappear at short notice. I’ve recently extended my sub for an extra 12m.

I don't think Premium has improved at all in fact I would say it has got considerably worse, removing VR games and then only offering 1 game in a month is not good value IMO but I will stay subscribed (that's the problem) because I enjoy streaming to my Portal.

The back catalogue they have to go at should make this tier an absolute winner!

I think the quality of PS Plus Premium is declining year over year. Especially when there are so many great PS1, PS2 and PS3 games they could add. Only reason i got Premium atm is because the price was the same as 1 year of Extra, because of the higher discount for Premium with the recent Days of Play.

I never sub to Extra and Premium so i don't know the quality. But so far this year Essentials are pretty decent for me. I got my money worth just from Robocop Rogue City, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Warhammer 40K Boltgun, and Alone in the Dark. Next month KoF XV & Diablo 4 are pretty decent too.

This is such PR nonsense. The games of the PS Extra service in particular have been really poor lately with more getting removed than added each month.

the irony is people keep saying " i don't even have time to play these games any more" , but complain there isn't enough games to play at the same time. if there are more games and you don't have time to play them whats the point?

"PlayStation Thinks Its PS Plus Games Are 'Improving' Every Year"

I laughed so much, I fell of my chair!

Essential has been good for me lately. A few days ago I decided to browse the PS+ tab in my PS5 library and was shocked at the amount of games I want to get to. The backlog never ends.

HAHAHAHAHA!

No.

I've been a subscriber of the top tier for the last 5 years and I've seen the selection go from including games I wanted to play to games I already owned, to the digital equivalent of a bargain bin with one gem of a game every few months or so.

Then there's the retro collection which started off poorly and has somehow managed to get worse each month. That this is one of the rare benefits of Premium just makes it sting even more.

I had to pause my membership for a month back in April and saw absolutely no reason to go back as its not worth it to play the occasional round of Street Fighter 6 and odd discount on games I want.

That they even went and cancelled the Playstation Stars program was the final nail in the coffin and it will take substantial efforts on Sony's part to regain my trust and tempt me into resubscribing.

I'd like to see them point to specific examples of this being the case. GP is still able to get day one releases. It's not even something I usually consider subscribing to, but at least they have that.

Premium’s been rubbish but Extra flits between good and decent every month. It’s a shame some months have better games leaving than the ones coming in though.

I'm just saying that the other day I reviewed the percentage of PS Plus games I own, and they're adding more and more crappy games to their catalog:

• On PS4, 32.65% of my total games were purchased thanks to the basic PS Plus, which rises to 38.37% if I also include PS Extra and Premium.
• On PS5, only 16.13% of my total games were purchased thanks to the basic PS Plus, which rises to 27.42% with PS Extra and Premium included. And I'm also telling you, I'm buying fewer and fewer games on the day they're released.
• I won't even mention PSVR2: only 7.32% of my games are PS Extra or Premium, and the basic version is a complete zero.

Premium is an absolute rip-off.

An extra £20 from Extra to get one PS "classic" per month

In other news single player games are dead, so says EA 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

Game not coming together, than use that BioWare magic 😂😂😂😂😂.

Or this one, “Skull and Bones Is a quadruple A game” 🙄😂

Premium leave a lot to be desired. Especially when you consider the back catalogue to 1995.

@Fritz167 I hate maths

Please, less multiplayer dross and more indie games.

The quality is great, its the expectations of gamers that are wrong with PSPlus.

They want brand new games within 3 months and turn their noses up at amazing games.

Entitled cry babies.

@RiverGenie out of interest, what do you play and what are you wanting them to add if you're struggling for 1 or 2 games a year when we get well over 100 games over the year across the 3 tiers.

@Bluemoon2008 my problem is the games they add i either already own, have played on game pass or have no interest in.

I only have essentials for multiplayer access but even when I was on premium it was essentially still the same issues.

Let take the July 2925 offering;

Diablo 4 I have owned since day 1 on Xbox and have the expansion also. Lets say I didn't own it I would have had access to it on gamepass since March 2025 . I have no reason play it on PS5 at this time.

Justant had been on Gamepass since October 2023 not that I have any interest in it

KOF 15 is a fighting game and I have no interest in the genre

@RiverGenie if you've got gamepass and you're actively buying whatever new titles you want, I'm not sure what you expect to get from having ps+ too.

Thats a case of you subscribing to something you really don’t need rather than the offerings being bad.

Gamepass and ps+ have constantly picked from the same pool of games, when a game is removed from one it often appears on the other shortly after. The same devs will be open to the same deals from either service, the difference being gamepass pay more to get games day 1/earlier and charge more as a consequence. If Sony took the approach of not adding titles that have been to gamepass first just to satisfy the small sample that subscribe to both, they'd have a much smaller and poorer pool of games to choose from.

Hopefully they'll figure out a way to let us stream/play our whole gaming library, onto the PS Portal, without having to turn on the PlayStation 5! I think that'll help them get a lot more premium subscribers, if they do add that feature.

Can we downgrade our membership?

Been a premium sub since it launched, but thatll change this year. I dont play online and I cant recall the last ps plus game i played more than a few minutes.

Its certainly a value if you use it, but otherwise its kinda meh.

Additionally, for me, they are adding things like sony core or whatever the movie thing is called, but those films are already on other services. It feels like they keep reducing quality titles as well at a time when gamepass is crushing it.(ie not last year when gp was in a rut)

I sail, and make 10-12K$ a month.... couldn't care less. I'm happy with what I have. I realise that this is selfish and Sony is not doing it's best to stay on the good side of it's users...buy like someone said - Gaming IS a luxury.

Can't say for PS4/5 games. I don't have interest in any of them, or so few. Pricing, I mean.... sure. But I can easily wait for digital/physical discounts too and not subscribe.

Even tv/film services I don't even like most of the series offered, so whether I treat the ones i watch and move on from as 'not worth rewatching' is the same thing. I don't like things to be throw away, but even more so if I buy a blu-ray it's because I had interest in that series, seen before to rewatch or first time but was interested. So to me 'renting' or streaming or subscribing if I already don't have an interest in what it offered, created, and presented, let alone price entry. I am not missing out. I'm just not.

That or even more so buy the Premium/Deluxe games for $15 of the few I want that appear every so often. Again, very few of interest. Why would I sub when it's flushing money down the toilet and the desperation to use it to get value. I just buy whatever I want not subscribe to things and have things change or many I'm not interested in appear. So I am not missing out if I already don't even use the subscription with family anyway, why would I get any PS/Xbox/NSO subscription if I already don't use PS/Xbox subscriptions even when I don't have to pay for it.

I don't use PS5/Series X either and don't have to pay for my own consoles (I can, but I don't need to and if I don't use what I already have access to, why would I buy my own if I still don't care without having to and use my Switch 1, PS4/Xbox One and older happily for third parties on occasion), so why would I care? XD

@Bluemoon2008 I subscribe to ps plus because multiplayer is held hostage behind the pay wall so yes I do need the service.

Playstation have a host of first party games to pull from that are not new releases anymore and are not available on gamepass yet they still insist on pulling from the same pool as you put it.

My circumstances are my own and I only speak for myself. I can still be disappointed with the service offered to me in terms of the games offered because it is disappointing to me.

You can be dismissive of my reason or whatever but it still doesn't change my own opinions.

It's doing that well, I've just cancelled after being a user from the start.

Continually removing 1st party games from Extra and Premium is ridiculous and not consumer friendly at all. When my sub runs out at the end of this year it won't be getting renewed. Might get the odd month of essential when there's something worth playing.

The last few months have mostly sucked so I don't know what they're on about.

They constatrmlt fail the premium subscription tier by failing to give us variety ij their classics they have a tendency to stick to getting g 1 to 3 entries of the same franchise instead of spacing them out and getting a few different things at the same time

For me, giving a good game year and a half later when it already costs 10 bucks only sale is pity 😞