PS Plus Premium is a complete shambles before it’s even started – Reader’s Feature
A reader is confused by Sony’s promotion of the revamped PS Plus and worries they’re not taking the Game Pass equivalent seriously.
No matter whether you’re a PlayStation or Xbox fan I think everyone would accept that Sony has a baseline of competence that is worthy of respect. They’ve been in the games business for a long time and whether you agree with their decisions or not they usually make them according to a predictable, internal logic. So what on earth is going on with the revamp of PS Plus?
The revamp (which doesn’t really have an overall name, making it difficult to talk about in general – mistake number one for Sony’s marketing) was talked about for months before the official announcement, with everyone describing it as the PlayStation equivalent to Game Pass, which it essentially is. Although, really, it’s PlayStation Extra, the middle of the three tiers that’s the most like Game Pass because while PS Plus Platinum is the most expensive it’s really just PS Extra + PS Now.
If you’re already confused then good, because that’s my point. This IS all horribly confusing. It’s all been presented in the most unhelpful way possible, both in terms of having it be easy to understand and making it seem like something people would want to spend money on. Worse than that, Sony’s presentation of the whole concept is beginning to seem outright incompetent, and that’s not what I would’ve expected from them.
It’s not like I work in marketing, far from it, but I would have thought the obvious way to go was to announce it during a State of Play and have a big massive montage (they finally did one the other day but it’s barely a few seconds long) of the games on PS Plus Extra and Platinum. That’d be two separate montages, ones for
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