Comparing PS Plus Premium's Launch Games to Xbox Game Pass'

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Next month, Sony will be expanding PS Plus with a new tier system: Essential (which is essentially PS Plus as it is now), Extra (which includes a library of PS4 and PS5 games), and Premium (which boasts all of that, plus a bigger library of PS1, PS2, PSP, and PS3 games), among other benefits. The entire library of PS Plus Premium has yet to be revealed, as while Sony recently showed a good chunk of them, it has previously said it would feature a total of 700 games at launch.

Many see PS Plus Premium as Sony’s challenge/competitor to Xbox Game Pass, which is often hailed as the best deal in gaming. It’s hard to compare a service that’s been around 5 years (as Game Pass launched in 31 markets on June 1, 2017) to one not out yet. At launch, PS Plus Premium will still be in its infancy. However, one can look at the Game Pass launch lineup of 2017 and compare it fairly well to PS Plus Premium’s launch lineup.

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When it launched in 2017, Xbox Game Pass was priced at $9.99 and had over 100 Xbox One and Backward Compatible games. This price does not include Xbox Live Gold, which is now bundled in it as Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a factor in PS Plus Premium's packages and pricing. Xbox Game Pass has grown into an absolute behemoth, but it’s worth adding that its launch, while with a bunch of games, did not have the hottest titles quite yet.

Perhaps the highlights of Xbox Game Pass was Halo 5, NBA 2K16, Payday 2, LEGO Batman, Banjo-Kazooie, Mega Man Legacy Collection, Streets of Rage, the BioShock games, Gears of War 1-3, Perfect Dark Zero, Borderlands, Saints Row 4, Terraria, Resident Evil 0, and XCOM: Enemy Within. It was not a bad lineup for 2017, but it was not as