PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium: What’s the Difference?
Sony is rolling its PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now online gaming and cloud streaming services into one, with three tiers available at three different prices. The more you spend, the more you get. Let’s take a look at what each tier has to offer.
Prior to the March 2022 announcement, Sony’s PlayStation Plus was a single tier that provided access to Sony’s online gaming services as well as two monthly downloadable games, discounts on store items, and cloud storage for backing up and transferring your cloud games. The price for this service was $9.99 per month or $59.99 yearly.
The Essential tier of Sony’s revised PlayStation Plus service provides the same benefits as the old PlayStation Plus service at the same price. If you just want to play games online with your friends—and maybe grab whichever two free games Sony has available for the month—Essential is the tier for you.
The Extra tier is where things start to get interesting. For $14.99 per month (or $99.99 yearly) you get everything in the Essential tier plus access to a library of up to 400 games to download and play. You can access these games for as long as you’re a subscriber. Exact game availability may differ between regions.
Play Video
These games include older titles from PlayStation Studios (but not new day one releases) and games from third-party studios. Some example titles provided by Sony include God of War, Returnal, Death Stranding, and Mortal Kombat 11. Like rival services, Sony plans to change the lineup on an ongoing basis.
Finally, Sony offers PlayStation Plus Premium at the $17.99 per month or $119.99 yearly price point. You get everything in the previous two tiers plus access to around 340 additional games for PS3, the original PlayStation,
Read more on howtogeek.com
