Games Inbox: PS Plus Premium disaster, Battlefield Portal suggestions, and PSVR recommendations

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Time and money I was beginning to think that people were just jumping on the band wagon, criticising Sony and PS Plus Premium but it seems like every detail that comes out makes it sound worse and worse. Now that it’s live in Asia the general lack of games is very disappointing, as is the apparent lack of care over the versions they’re using.

The thing that immediately struck me is that it all seems very rushed. I don’t know how, considering Sony has had years to plan this and there’s nothing technically complicated about any of it, but I can only assume that the whole thing has been underfunded for some reason. That’s probably another reason why Sony hasn’t talked about it much pre-launch but it also underlines just how rich Microsoft is as a company and how it can make very time consuming things seem simple and straightforward.

I’m still surprised Sony has sleepwalked into such obvious problems though. Why talk about hundreds of games and then not deliver? Why make such an obvious mistake about PAL games when everyone already criticised you over them for the PlayStation Classic console?

Maybe the Western or Japanese versions of the service will end up being better but that doesn’t seem very likely at this point. It really is a bit of a disaster, and a completely unnecessary one at that.Collins

Xbox PR Wow, what an absolute mess PS Plus Premium has been so far! What are Sony playing at? If they don’t like Game Pass then fine but making a knock-off brand version of it that is clearly nowhere near as good is just asking for