New PlayStation Plus Tiers Officially Announced
As was reported, Sony has officially unveiled codename Spartacus, its subscription service that can be likened to Xbox’s Game Pass. But instead of having a new name, this service is being rolled into PlayStation Plus and will have three tiers: Essential, Extra, and Premium. The service will launch in June in select Asian markets before coming to North America, Europe, and “the rest of the world where PlayStation Plus is offered.”
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan explained all of this in a post on the PlayStation Blog. Many of these details are almost exactly what has been reported on in the past. Regardless, the first of the three tiers is essentially just what PlayStation Plus is right now and will be $9.99 monthly and $59.99 yearly. It’ll come with exclusive discounts, save game cloud storage, and online multiplayer access. However, it also lists two monthly downloadable games, which is either a typo or a reduction in the amount of offered games since Sony usually gives out at least three or four titles a month.
Extra is the second tier and will be $14.99 a month and $99.99 a year. It’ll come with all the stuff in the previous tier as well as a library of around 400 PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 titles, which will all be downloadable. The post did not provide a full list of these games and it’s unknown how many current PlayStation Now games will carry over. Ryan did, however, state that it will have “blockbuster hits from [the] PlayStation Studios catalog” and listed,,,,, and as games that would be launching on the two most expensive tiers. Ryan also said that Sony is working with first and third-party developers to include some of the “best gaming experiences” and the library itself will be
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