PlayStation Game Pass Competitor Project Spartacus Details Leaked by Insider

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APlayStation alternative to Xbox's increasingly popular Game Pass subscription service has been a seeming inevitability for some time. That plan was unofficially confirmed when leaked details regarding PlayStation's Project Spartacus spread. Spartacus was said to include both PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now in three different tiers of subscription. Now even more information regarding PlayStation's Spartacus plans have been leaked, including what may be a key way Sony plans to make Spartacus unique and attractive.

Games Beat's Jeff Grubb shared the latest Spartacus details in a recent episode of his Giant Bomb show Grubbsnax. To start, Grubb re-confirms that Spartacus will be broken up into three different tiers. The tiers will retain the PlayStation Plus branding, but with additional labels — Essential, Extra, and Premium. These tiers will then be priced at $10, $13, and $16 a month, respectively. What each tier includes is where things get interesting.

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The $10 PS+ Essential Tier is said to be what PS+ is currently. It supports multiplayer game access and a small collection of monthly games that subscribers keep so long as they remain subscribed. For $13, subscribers gain access to a catalog of video games akin to Xbox Game Pass. Gubb characterizes this as PlayStation Now's library of games, but without the cloud requirement. The $16 Premium subscription includes all prior features, as well as PlayStation Now cloud streaming, «game trials,» and most excitingly, access to a special reserve of «classic games.»

Exactly what «classic games» implies isn't entirely clear and neither is «game trials.» If speculating, the library of classic games could perhaps be akin