PS Plus Premium confirms oddly small line-up of retro games
The first bunch of retro PlayStation games for the new PS Plus are confirmed and it’s strangely slim pickings.
Several PlayStation 1 games had already been leaked for Sony’s revamped PlayStation Plus service, such as Tekken 2 and Mr. Driller. Now, Sony has finally revealed some of the line-up itself.
As with previous announcements, Sony has casually dropped all this info via a blog post, with no build up and only a month before the new service is scheduled to launch in the West.
Not only has the information been released out of the blue but its very incomplete, since this doesn’t seem to be the entire line-up. Why it’s not all being revealed at once, and when the rest will be announced, is unclear.
When it comes to PlayStation 1 and PSP games, the list is rather small with only 10 games between Sony and third parties. It includes most of the leaked titles (minus Ridge Racer) and the likes of Ape Escape, Hot Shots Golf, and Jumping Flash.
The first Syphon Filter, which received a new rating for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 recently, will be included as well. Although there’s no sign of the other Syphon Filter games that were rated alongside it.
There are technically more retro games than that, but the rest are not the original releases. Instead, they’re remastered versions from the PlayStation 4 era, such as Ape Escape 2 and the original trilogy of Jak And Daxter games.
It’s not exactly the strongest line-up Sony could have offered but, on the plus side, certain games you already bought digitally can be downloaded for free without PS Plus.
‘Players who have previously purchased the digital version of games from the original PlayStation and PSP generation will not have to make a separate purchase or sign up to PlayStation Plus
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