It's Been A Week And Nobody Is Talking About PlayStation Plus Premium Anymore

thegamer.com:

PlayStation Plus Premium hasn’t launched in the UK and Europe yet, but because I’m a super hacker gamer girl I managed to subscribe through an alternate account so I could gain access to the service’s library of games and other exclusive features before anyone else. Well, anyone aside from people who actually live in the territories where it launched.

After spending a week with the new and improved offerings I’m underwhelmed. I know I shouldn’t have expected something to match Xbox Game Pass, and given my job I already own many of the games found in the upper tier library, but even so it feels like the whole thing has been cobbled together.

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First off, let's start with marketing. PlayStation Plus Premium was rumoured for months, with so many of us ready and waiting for Sony to reveal a subscription service that would not only transform its existing repertoire, but introduce something new to stand alongside the likes of Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch Online. The PlayStation strategy of releasing a handful of blockbuster exclusives each year to critical and commercial acclaim continues to be a successful one, but likely temporary as the industry matures and adopts more service ecosystems. It finally reacted, but in a way that feels weirdly muddled and disjointed.

If the company didn’t act it would be left behind, but the execution of PlayStation Plus Premium right now leaves much to be desired. When Game Pass was first revealed it was everywhere, with Microsoft making it abundantly clear that all major exclusives would be available on the service, on day one at no extra cost, and a continued subscription would see members receive a steady stream of games each and every