But maybe we’ll get Marvel’s Spider-Man?
The big change is that the higher Plus tiers will include access to libraries of games from across decades of PlayStation consoles, basically making it more like Microsoft’s Game Pass.
The highest new tier, PlayStation Plus Premium, is the only one which matters to us here on PC. Premium includes access to cloud gaming, making it a replacement for PlayStation Now. For a fee of £13.49 monthly, £39.99 quarterly, or £99.99 annually (that’s $17.99/$49.99/$119.99 in USD, or €16.99/€49.99/€119.99), Plus Premium will offer cloud streaming access to a library of hundreds of PlayStation 4, PS3, PS2, PSone, and PSP games. While the Plus library includes some PlayStation 5 games, those are not available for streaming, and so not for us.
It’s not currently clear which games will be available to stream on PC, nor how this PS Plus Premium library will be different from the current PlayStation Now catalogue. Sony’s main focus today was clearly consoles. They haven’t listed the games that will be available for streaming on PC. They’ve barely mentioned any games at all.
The only games confirmed for the new PS Plus areDeath Stranding, God Of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man,Mortal Kombat 11, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, andReturnal. That last one is a PlayStation 5 exclusive, so it wouldn’t be available on PC through cloud gaming. The rest, well, I hope so? Would be nice to have Spider-Man?
And hopefully they’ll announce a proper PC release for Bloodborne one day, sheesh. As they cautiously release older games on PC (God Of War just came out in January), the next game confirmed is Uncharted 4 with its expansion. But yes, Bloodborne after that, please.
If you do have a PlayStation, by the way, you might want to readGamesIndustry.biz’s interview with the CEO of PlayStation. While Microsoft put their new games on Game Pass on launch day, Sony will not. They think their first-party games might suffer for it. PlayMan Jim Ryan said, “The level of investment that we need to make in our studios would not be possible, and we think the knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want.”
