PS Plus Premium and Extra live now in UK as full games line-up revealed

metro.co.uk:

The revamped PS Plus service is finally available in Europe and there’s a total of potential 865 games between PS Plus Extra and Premium.

Don’t expect any great fanfare about it (so far it’s not even mentioned on the PlayStation Blog) but the three new tiers of PlayStation Plus are finally available in the UK.

Sony did issue a brief tweet to confirm the fact and we’ve just had a play around with the service ourselves, and can confirm it does work when both downloading and streaming – at least on the couple of games we tried.

Just to recap, PS Plus is now available in three flavours: PS Plus Essential, which is essentially the same as always; PS Plus Extra, which is roughly equivalent to Game Pass and includes a range of PlayStation 4 and 5 games; and PS Premium, which adds retro games for the PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and Portable.

PS Plus Essential costs £6.99 a month (£19.99 for three months and £49.99 a year) and is also needed to play multiplayer games online.

PS Plus Extra isn’t exactly like Game Pass, as it doesn’t include first party games from day one, but it does include around 404 PlayStation 4 and 5 games to download. It costs £10.99 a month or £31.99 for three months and £83.999 for a year.

PS Plus Premium is the top tier and includes everything from Extra plus potentially 461 downloadable retro games for the PlayStation 1, 2, and PSP.

PlayStation 3 games are also included but they’re only to stream. Premium also includes time-limited demos for some games and costs £13.49 a month, or £39.99 a quarter and £99.99 a year.

We say potentially 461 games as the official list is extremely vague and lists half the games as not necessarily being available across all of Europe.