Bummer: PlayStation Plus Premium won’t include any DLC for PS3 games
Every day, we’re learning something new about what we can — and crucially can’t — expect from the tiered PlayStation Plus revamp launching on June 13 in North America. Today, it’s a caveat about the subscription’s streamable PS3 games: namely, you won’t be able to access any of their DLC. This was an issue before with cloud-based games played via PlayStation Now, and it’ll still be present with PlayStation Plus Premium.
As pointed out by Video Games Chronicle, Sony confirmed this week that “DLC and add-on content is not supported when streaming a title.”
This shouldn’t be a huge surprise given the previous limitation with PlayStation Now, but offering DLC would’ve been a good chance for Sony to increase the value of streamable PS3 games. $120 per year for PlayStation Plus Premium isn’t exactly an easy sell.
For me, the big omission is Tokyo Jungle, which had some fun DLC animals, including a salaryman, a saber-toothed tiger, and a fat cat. For the rest of the anime-loving world, the lack of DLC for Asura’s Wrath stings even worse — the story is incomplete without it.
It’s worth noting that, per Sony, players “can purchase DLC and add-on content for the [PS4 and PS5] games you download from the games catalog through PlayStation Plus.”
“If your membership expires, or if the content leaves the service you’ll also lose access to the DLC and add-on content associated with that game. Once you resubscribe to the service or decide to purchase the title, you’ll be able to use your purchased DLC and add-on content again.”
I was also curious about online check-ins. According to Sony, “game catalog titles in the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium/Deluxe plans” will require a connection to PlayStation Network every seven days for
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