PS Plus Premium Has Given You Just 1 Classic PlayStation Game a Month for Over Half a Year Now

It makes sense considering that Sony hires a studio that probably has less than 10 people to make these versions. As long as there isn't more people to work on this, it will continue like this (or get worse)

And it probably stopped being the selling point of the tier when they added cloud streaming (which works well on Portal).

I didn't bother to renew mine this year the prices are extortionate.

Downgraded my subscription last year, if I see a classic I want I'll just buy it, but haven't seen any ones I wanted since downgrading.

It’s £1.50 a month for a game. A game that’s usually £8 or so when bought separate. Then you have streaming or whatever other benefits premium offers.

Is it amazing value? No. Is it bad value? No. Is it meh sometimes? Yes.

Premium isn't even worth it, the lower tier is enough for me but I've stopped my sub because I don't play online hardly and I still see decent discounts not being one

I just buy the classics but there's hardly any because Sony doesn't like backwards compatibility if they could get rid tomorrow they would do

Extra is the true Premium.

@Nakatomi_Uk PS2 was the first mainstream console to have what was effectively full backwards compatibility with its predecessor out of the box.

Early model PS3 had the same but they had to cut the price somehow, so axed PS2 back compat while retaining PS1 back compat.

Vita has BC with the PSP.

PS5 has considerable BC capability with PS4.

But yep, Sony just hate it!

I subscribed to PS Plus Premium not because it has retro titles and cloud streaming but because it's the most expensive tier.

People say Nintendo drip feeds NSO offerings and they add like 5-10 games every month.

I think it's almost literally "a buck" for me in Australia. I think it's cheaper here because we don't get any of the streaming classics.

I did not get premium to play old ass games I got it to stream so stop freaking crying

For the extra $25 annually, you might as well get a NSO sub and a yearly pizza.

@Slayer25c But if someone got it to play old ass games, don't you think they're justified in freaking crying?

Thankfully I make use of the premium with my portal but the promised classics were mis-sold so badly. We've even had PS4 games lumped in there and called a classic. There's an absolute wealth of games that could be added and we've had 6 in half a year

@Czar_Khastik A true masochist 😄.

I’m not sure how long it takes for the features such as rewind, instant save state, and having trophy support for events in the game take to implement, but I’m sure it’s not as easy as just flipping a switch and it’s done. So I’m personally not surprised only one classic title is worked on and added per month.

Over time though, the lineup is starting to get pretty respectable with probably around 80+ titles added across PS1, PSP, and some PS2 games. Some pretty great options as well such as Twisted Metal, Legend of Dragoon, Ape Escape, G-Police, MediEvil.

I don’t look at Premium as a tier I would ever sub to for a long period of time. I’d probably do like one month out of the year and just play a ton of classics in that month.

Personally, I prefer to buy the classics a la carte and add them to my library.

@RoomWithaMoose u crying over some old ass games and u get streaming which allows u save so much of space if u have good Internet

For me it does due to the streaming on the Portal. That ia far better quality than remote play and has allowed me loads more gaming time than I previously had. If they did away with the one game and allowed me to stream .u ps4 collection and or ps3 collection that would be even better.

@Slayer25c Me? Well, I wasn't referring to myself in that response, but yeah. I cry about old games I can't currently play all the time.

Do you not like old games? Honestly a shame if you don't; a lot of them still hold up.

Streaming is a fine feature. I was just pointing out that if someone subbed to Premium specifically for old ass games rather than streaming, I reckon they're pretty justified in crying over the offerings.

If you want only PS classic then you should just buy them individually rather than pay $160 /year for PS+ premium. The cost isn't that different if one game price is $10-15 and you don't have to worry for subscription time limit too.

I wish Trials were at least included in Extra too.

@RoomWithaMoose Heck, for the price of Premium get NSO Expansion for the whole family of 8 for a year, plus a pizza party.

Well it's either licensing issues or the emulation or other factors. But I assume they just take their time and that's totally fine, good emulation quality, fair implementation of the rewind, fast forward and save states, setup with the controller for the menu. But mostly just the licensing/source code and however to structure them for decent performance, what to do about features of the game, etc. Not that they would offer that, we aren't getting any Eye Toy support with the PS4 Camera/PS5 HD Camera, or anything.

That or whatever other disk/RAM techniques of the past either.

I mean the games are as particularly structured as they were back then, so emulating them and inputs for sure with the animations, the NTSCU/PAL/NTSCJ versions and so on.

I hope they don't get limited on licenses, there is plenty to still offer.

Or are the deals too much to maintain?

That aside, I just buy them digitally if I care, I'm not subbing to a high tier just to play them when I jump around games all the time, I don't need to waste money not using it, cloud storage doesn't bother me that much. But cloud itself I have no access to for Deluxe so I just have a PS3 for that instead as no Premium.

It depends on what people are really after though, is it online/cloud storage? Is it the extra tier of games to try and go eh wasn't for me or really get into it or buy it once it's going to leave/cheap enough?

Is it game trials or the PS1 to PS3/PSP games.

It really depends.

I myself already know I wouldn't use it, cloud storage maybe but I'm not paying for that.

Online/monthly games, pass.

Extra is the more viable option but I already don't like PS4/PS5 era games as it is and most of the games I'd want would never appear on the service anyway of those I already have on PS4/Switch/Xbox One physical or digital. XD So that's mostly why I wouldn't bother. IF they did or I had interest in other titles sure, but they just don't.

Game trials are ok but just make them demos instead not a higher tier for demos compared to Extar tier of other games.

Also the retro games I can pay for the license and be happy that way then subbing. I can look up footage and know already.

Or I could emu them and test them out that way and stop and then choose to get it via the digital license via the PS store after that.

There is no retro game demos or game trials at all, because why would Sony offer that compared to the PS4/5 games, but I usually know enough about a retro game from it's footage these days.

The truth is Premium is good value if you value streaming on your portal etc. Most people are not in that catagory so most will say it's not good value.
If I was someone with time to finish multiple games a month, extra would be one to go for.

It seems like the biggest value is the cloud streaming which, IMO, isn't very good compared to other offerings.

But if you don't use that....I guess the game trials?

Leave Sony alone, it's not like they've got a massive library of classics to draw from or anything

£1.60 a month. For a game. Thats great. Add in the ability to stream all my games to my Portal, and its an unmissable deal.

I think some people have real trouble understanding how the Premium subscription is broken down, and feel / imagine they are paying a third of the cost per band or something. It’s £1.60 max price people! The price of an admittedly overpriced chocolate bar. Stop your complaining and gain some perspective.

@Gremio108 But third parties do. Or other 2nd party deals of the past they care to make resurface.

@Slayer25c honestly, this person has to be either someone who has never matured or a child. It doesn't matter that it's great "for streaming" - they've drastically increased the price so streaming to a Portal should be the installed value you get, not a change from getting classic titles as promised originally. I don't stream games and I love my retro stuff.. I cancelled Premium after my first year and so far I feel like I've missed nothing. In fact, because there are so few it's probably cheaper for me to buy the retro titles I want instead of subbing