PlayStation Game Pass close to launching – charges £12 a month for retro games
New details for Sony’s Project Spartacus claims older games will be locked to the most expensive tier and PS Now will see a price hike.
There have been rumblings of a PlayStation equivalent to Game Pass, codenamed Project Spartacus, since December and said rumblings have only gathered steam over the last couple of months, especially with Sony removing gift cards for its PlayStation Now service.
The initial report said Sony would launch the new service in spring and now GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb has corroborated that claim, saying that it could launch very soon.
‘It’s probably getting pretty close to this actually launching, something’s probably going to happen by the end of this month and I don’t think that necessarily means publicly, I think in terms of the internal milestone of where the service needs to be,’ he said on his GrubbSnax podcast (transcribed by VGC).
In a separate report, Grubb reiterated a lot of the info we already knew, namely that it will combine PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now together and that higher tiers will grant access to a library of games from previous PlayStation consoles and PS Now’s streaming capabilities.
The key takeaway is the prices. Although Grubb stresses that these could change by the time the service launches, it’s unlikely Sony will stray too far from these estimates.
The first tier, PS Plus Essential, is just the new name for the current PS Plus service and will continue to offer a selection of free games every month. Grubb has it down as $10 a month, which is what PS Plus already costs (it’s £6.99 a month in the UK).
The second tier, PS Plus Extra, is $13 a month (about £10) and comes with the monthly free games and a library of hundreds of older titles. The report says that the
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