Sony 'Exploring New Ways' to Deliver PS Plus Games

This is a Fing stupid idea!!!

Considering I'm going to be downgrading back to Essential in a few months, I don't really care.

I don't understand. Does that mean KC and others will not be available in Europe, Australia, etc?

edit: nvm, I read the blog post - everything drops on the 16th in regions not mentioned

Seems a pointlessly frustrating change? If you want to play a game you'll play it, having to wait longer to not play the game you were never going to won't make any difference.

Just advertise them a bit earlier, build up some hype, and have better ways to navigate or promote new additions.

Can't see any logical benefit to this

'Obviously there are advantages here – select territories get access to the Sonic Generations remake sooner, as mentioned – but it seems a bit unfair to force fans to wait for other releases'

Honestly, not really a criticism of you but of people in general post the invention of social media. There's an unwillingness or inability to be patient, or to not compare themselves to someone with a perceived advantage, no matter how slight, and not feel hard done. Waiting two extra weeks for a PSPlus game than some others is a total irrelevance.

I saw it the day before yesterday, people moaning about the Scots getting a Bank Holiday and not the rest of us.

Morning talk shows loved it. They love a negative spin on stuff. No, can't be happy for the Jocks for getting something nice...no, it's not fair, we want it too, blah, blah, me, me, me.

Some people will get access to games a bit earlier than others. Good luck to them.

I only subscribe to essential.
If any part of this is designed to attract new subscribers, I would say it very marginally would put me off (as to me it would be better to get in one hit, to enable a bigger pool of new games to choose from in one go), but the difference is almost negligible.

I suppose it increases 'New to extra' headlines / notifications, but loses the impact with so few each time.

Kind of a dumb change in my eyes, why stagger the release of your PS Plus games when the game that someone is interested in won't be playable until the end of the month.
It feels like it's a sneaky way for Sony to get people to keep their subs going by making them wait for the game they want to play.

How about they deliver more than one classic game a month

How will this affect games leaving the service. Will I still get a month's notice?

So Sony has Sonic out earlier perhaps to hype up an upcoming Sonic Central stream (with the mystery of the Frontiers for Switch 2 rating still unsolved, SEGA's likely got a stream around Sonic's birthday) and then the rest is later than normal because Sony wants all attention on FF16?

Pro's and cons to it. There will be times where you get a game earlier than expected at a time where you're looking for something to play and you'll see it as a positive and they'll be times when the game you want is at the end of the month.

Personally i prefer how it has been, dump all the games on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and let the players do as they please. Above anything else, it just seems like unnecessary extra work to be constantly uploading games every week in different regions. Bound to be cockups along the line.

Are we to presume removal dates will also be spread out? That will lead to people not getting to finish games because they mistook the removal date.

Feels like some suit at sony has decided to complicate a simple process to create work.

What's weird is if they still announce them all on the Wednesday before the third Thursday, but they scatter the releases despite announcing them together.

If they REALLY want more engagement, then an announcement each week of what's coming the following week would put them in the news more often.

For me, it's less about being impatient (I'm willing to wait for games to go on sale or come to Plus) and more about being confused as to what's coming when. I used to know new games would drop the first and third Tuesday, now they're going to be scattered through the month, so it's more likely I'll miss noticing something that would have interested me.

I thought that Europe was always the largest market for Sony.

"Europe is the largest continent for PlayStation in terms of market share and console sales. While North America (primarily the United States) has the highest individual country volume, Europe as a continent consistently generates the largest combined regional audience and revenue base for PlayStation" Europe is the largest continent for PlayStation in terms of market share and console sales. While North America (primarily the United States) has the highest individual country volume, Europe as a continent consistently generates the largest combined regional audience and revenue base for PlayStation.

I don't have a problem with staggering game releases per se for Plus, but I do think it's a bit annoying I have to remember when certain titles release now. Is it today? Is it next week? Is it the end of the month? If they're going to spread it out there needs to be a Remind Me, kind of like Netflix.

If they want more engagement then they need to add more tools for browsing the store, and stuff like game gifting. I'd love an option in Game Catalog to build your own Playlist so I can sort the games I'm interested rather than have to browse again anytime I want to download something new.

@TheDarts this has nothing to do wait waiting. EVERYTHING TO DO FOR A CASH GRAB EXTED UR TRASH THOUGH OUT THE Month instead all at once... You people cant be this slow.

@Bluemoon2008 LOL pros there is no pro you people legit morons

I'm reverting back to Essential this month, so this doesn't really effect me, but I can see valid arguments either way.

From a consumer standpoint, this seems bad because you want everything all at once, but from a services and developer standpoint, this is probably the right way to go. This way, Sony keeps engagement with Extra more consistent throughout the month and also allows each game a little time to shine without being buried in a large content dump.

Damn leaders in California looking for things that arent screwed up to get their hands on.

It's just a sneaky way of trying to make you pay for longer.

Not rrally bothered to be honest because i wont pay for it anyway not unless its as good as gamepass otherwise no thanks ill stick to buying games

@SinglePlayer49 thats exactly what it is sony being sony as usual

It won’t likely affect me, since I’ve always got a backlog game going and I don’t usually jump into a PS+ game on day 1. It still seems needless, from a consumer standpoint.

Still, I much prefer this to the alternative where they do a weekly PS+ announcement with the release. That would be way worse. At least this way, I know there’s a game coming to the service in 3 weeks and can plan accordingly. If I didn’t know then I might accidentally have bought that game sometime in the next 3 weeks. 😅

While I don't have a problem with games rolling out on different dates, I really don't want to check Last chance to play folder every other day if the game I'd be interested to play isn't leaving soon.

Another stupid a%& move by Sony. God, I feel like this company becomes worse every year.

@get2sammyb swings and roundabouts. It seems unnecessary to us but it really is an irrelevance.

I spent my life watching TV shows where there'd be an episode a week. These days there are folk who are annoyed if Netflix don't make all episodes available as soon as a new show is out.

Do you know which approach is better? The old way. TV shows used to be an event. The anticipation of the next episode of a show you enjoy was a pleasure. Game of Thrones took that feeling to the nth degree. That's human nature.

What we've got now is an attitude of entitlement because the nearly all the media we consume, TV, film, music, news ect is immediate and on-demand. Waiting for anything no longer generates anticipation but irritation instead. And we're quicker to be unhappy for the fortune of others because we overwhelmingly perceive it a deficit for ourselves.

I find it interesting. I think the advent of social media and the surrounding technologies have had a detrimental affect on us overall.

This news will annoy some folks when really it's totally insignificant and doesn't warrant an emotional response of any kind.

@peewee78368 at least the people you are insulting can post a comment with correct enunciation and parenthesis...

Anyone able to download sonic. Still showing as trial for me