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The problem is spending first. Not enough gamers are dumb to pay that upfront. Only those who have no sense of money can do it.60/year sounds a lot better than 10/month to me.
The problem is spending first. Not enough gamers are dumb to pay that upfront. Only those who have no sense of money can do it.60/year sounds a lot better than 10/month to me.
PlayStation plans 3 Spartacus tiers for as much as $16 per month
PlayStation's Spartacus subscription upgrade will add Extra and Premium tiers for $13 and $16 per month, respectively.venturebeat.com
Sony is looking to expand PlayStation Plus by introducing new features and by integrating elements from PlayStation Now. Bloomberg originally reported about these efforts — which Sony internally calls “Spartacus” — in December. But now GamesBeat can provide some more info on what these new offerings look like.
Spartacus is an evolution of PlayStation Plus with three tiers. It currently calls those tiers Essential, Extra, and Premium — although those names could change between now and when the service launches. The subscription for these programs is monthly and starts at $10 and goes up to $16. And what do each of those tiers get you? Here’s the current plan:
PS+ Essential is the PS+ that you already know. For $10 per month, you get monthly games that you can add to your library. This works a lot like it already works today.
Monthly games Game catalogue Streaming Classic
gamesGame trials Price PS+ Essential X $10 PS+ Extra X X $13 PS+ Premium X X X X X $16
PS+ Extra, meanwhile, gets you the monthly games and a game catalogue for $13 per month. The game catalogue is a library of hundreds of older, downloadable games. This seems like Sony ripped the download catalogue out of PS Now and popped it into PS+ instead.
PS+ Premium gets you all of the above and then everything else for $16 per month. That everything else includes PS Now’s streaming capabilities. You also get a library of “classic games” as well as a new “game trials” feature. Game trials enables you to download and start playing the full versions of new PlayStation games. This likely has a time-limit function, which is similar to how game trials work on the EA Play service from Electronic Arts.
Again, all of these prices and names could change. But this is the general outline of what to expect from Spartacus. And these features should make PS Plus look much stronger in comparison to Xbox Game Pass. While Sony will not include full versions of its blockbuster games in PS Plus on day one, game trials will at least give a bigger audience a chance to sample those games.
Sony is moving into a testing phase for Spartacus in the next few weeks. And it could announce the details of its new membership program in March — although that’ll depend on whether it is ready to roll out the service.
depends on what games they do. Currently, we have limited games.Ok so basically what you're telling me is the ps+ I use right now (which will become "ps+ essential") will now cost $120 ($150cad) for literally the exact fucking service?
PS+ Essential, if exists at all, won’t be more than $70 per year.depends on what games they do. Currently, we have limited games.
It will depend, if they are trying day1 games.PS+ Essential, if exists at all, won’t be more than $70 per year.
But this “report” is just made up shit.
Essential won’t have game catalog… just the two monthly games.It will depend, if they are trying day1 games.
9.99$16 sounds dumb. Make it 15 then raise it to 16 later
well, that is dumb. Unless it has extra day 1 games, then price hike is worthless.Essential won’t have game catalog… just the two monthly games.
What price hike? Essential should not cost more than PS+ because it is basically PS+.well, that is dumb. Unless it has extra day 1 games, then price hike is worthless.
Gotta give Jeff some credit, he has gotten some things right but we shall see.
That other thread was based on a podcast, this one is a new written article.So, no day 1 games but trials for x length/hours ?
Yeah, no.
Also, there's another thread discussing the exact same thing:
It'll be about milking you to play those classic games, if they don't make them available to purchase. (Who would want to play those?)This sounds like nothing new, just reshuffling what currently exist.
Yup, my backlog is already insane on PS, and I’ve got gamepass for 3 years on Xbox. I’m good for now!Just regular plus for me please.
Ok so basically what you're telling me is the ps+ I use right now (which will become "ps+ essential") will now cost $120 ($150cad) for literally the exact fucking service?
without dayone releases gamepass ultimate at 14.99 make it pass like the poor citizen service. If they wanted to compete with gamepass well this is the wrong way16 dollar for the highest tier is fine, i just wanna know what spartacus can offer.
That’s never happening, sadly.Can I just get free cloud saves?
No.Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans![]()
What? Paying monthly is way stupid since it’s double the price if you don’t cancel it. It’s way better to pay upfront.The problem is spending first. Not enough gamers are dumb to pay that upfront. Only those who have no sense of money can do it.
Paying monthly means you can afford it.What? Paying monthly is way stupid since it’s double the price if you don’t cancel it. It’s way better to pay upfront.
Literally all I want, too. Or £10 a year.Can I just get free cloud saves?
From my experience here on neogaf I can assure Sony fans are usually the first to complain about anything Sony does, while other fans from other corporations usually embrace those changes and defend them no matter what.Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans![]()
This is what I’m hoping for. Really wish to pI'll pay it if the classic gsmes can be played using the local PS5 hardware.
$60 at once, not 180.Paying monthly means you can afford it.
$180 at once, isn't realistic.
I can't buy elden ring now, since I am over the budget for gaming this month.
Unless you are a person, who can casually spend $200 like it's nothing, then you won't spend that much.
Also $10 is fast food money. Tons of people can afford it, and you can get that $10 back. You can also cancel the plan if you don't like it.
Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans![]()
They guy was talking about the $1 gamepass conversion. You need $180 or 3 $60 xbox live gold all used at once.$60 at once, not 180.
Guilty as charged. If they lock classic titles behind some subscription model I'm gonnaI can assure Sony fans are usually the first to complain about anything Sony does
Im betting people will eat this just like they ate NSO. People don’t care, they just pay and that’s it.Guilty as charged. If they lock classic titles behind some subscription model I'm gonnawrite some strongly worded letters and give them a firm handshake.
Netflix, is that you??16 sounds dumb. Make it 15 then raise it to 16 later
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PlayStation Plussie Plus tier?Why no Playstation Plusser?