Why I cancelled my PS Plus Premium subscription after just one month – Reader’s Feature
A reader is unimpressed by Sony’s first attempt to add new games to PS Plus Premium and explains why it’s inspired him to get an Xbox Series S.
The PlayStation Plus revamp has not gone well so far, I think that’s pretty obvious to everyone. Sony seems strangely shy about talking about it and while the overall number of games is decent there’s very few PlayStation 1 or 2 or portable titles. This seems to be because the PlayStation 3, 4, and 5 games were much easier to do, as the PlayStation 3 games were already on PS Now and the newer formats already work automatically on PlayStation 5.
That implies everything was rushed, although what Sony were in a hurry for nobody seems able to say. If there was any doubt of how unprepared they were, the first monthly update was announced on Wednesday and it included a grand total of, wait for it… two games. Both of them for the PSP and neither of them anything anyone would ever care about.
Later rumours suggested Sony were planning to add three extra games: one PlayStation 1 game (Dino Crisis) and two more PSP games (Ridge Racer 2 and Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny). What happened isn’t clear but whether it was five games or two that’s still terrible, considering only one of them was in any way famous or desirable. So well done Sony, after just one month you’ve already convinced me to cancel my subscription.
I guess next month we can expect to hear that those three missing games will be added and based on June I wouldn’t be surprised if that was it. Before anyone forgets, Premium is, as the name suggests, the most expensive of the three PS Plus tiers and yet Extra, which is just PlayStation 4 and 5 games, got quite a few new games in June. Not all great ones but something that I was
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