During Sony's E3 2012 press conference, Jack Tretton announced the addition of a bunch of new games to PlayStation Plus as part of an "amplified" PS Plus relaunch. However, it wasn't clear exactly how the service was changing, beyond the offer of LittleBigPlanet 2 et al. the next day. Is PS Plus all about new full-size games every month for members?-Joystiq
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Regardless, I just got 3 free games for 50 bucks and have 12 months for whatever other goodies they put up there.
Great weekend!
@Soldierone said
"I haven't been able to put Saints Row 2 down at all. Going to buy Saints Row 3 this week for sure because of it."
See that is part of what they want. Play the games they give away for free and hope it temps you to go and play some other games and trust them as a company and buy games for their platform.
Brilliant Sony. Thanks for that.
Spend £250 (roughly) and never have to spend any money again on it.
Saints Row 3 was pretty bad ass!
A GIANT improvement in the graphics and physics department BUT the story was okay. I would advice you to wait for the Standalone expansion releasing sometime soon. Its pretty much a WHOLE new game and it will retail for around 29.99.
oh ..and the pc/ps vita/wii/3ds too
can't wait for next 11 months
Dar, what you'll usually find is that when someone gives you something really cheap, it's 'cause they got it really cheap. Then they say it's your for next to nothing *wink*, and that money actually covers the cost of the thing they really wanted you to pay for.
Like inFamous isn't worth $60 because they already couldn't sell it for that price. And since they made it and have already written the losses off on their taxes, they can now give it to you as a gift. So that you will give them $50 to pay for MP.
some people are just happy paying to xgamechat with friends and play online and their 360 might be their only platform capable of doing FB, Twitter, stream TV, Netflix, Last FM and so on so...let them pay and let the PS+ owners harvest the benefits of $50 a year subscription!
LONG. LIVE . PLAY
Kudo to you holding out that long.
http://www.gamespot.com/fea...
Luckily, prices are declining from where they were after the Thailand flood, and it's very easy to replace it! I've had a 320GB hard drive in mine for years, did that for 70 bucks, it's been great.
After the last dash update on Xbox Live they took the ability to stretch the screen away, but after complaints they finally added it back. This is why I prefer to use the Xbox 360's app for Netflix, hate watching older Futurama in a 4:3 locked aspect ratio.
I think its so funny that I got so many disagrees for simply stating my opinion, but because its against the PS3 version of something I guess I'm the devil.
I stated why I disagreed as did others, at least you could respect that instead of a blanket everybody is a crybaby statement. You prefer Netflix on Live, that's fine, doesn't mean everybody else has to.
Jack TRETTON forgot to mention that HIGH ASS price.
here in washington, seattle
@ VIRTUAL YEAH, IF YOU PUT IT THAT WAY IT IS CHEAPER THAN XBL 60.00 a year.
I signed up for PS Plus about 18 months ago and I have no regrets. It's been outstanding.
LP2-39.99
RAC41-39.99
IF2-39.99
LARA CROFT-9.99
SR2-19.99
JC2-19.99
SPACE MARINE-39.99
SIDEWAYS-9.99
CHOPLIFTER-4.99
HARD OPS-9.99
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE-9.99
Your getting more than 200 hundred dollars for only 49.99 and thats only one days worth of goods
How is that a ripoff?
PS+ is a great investment to be made into you PlayStation , there will never not be a game to play if you have PS+
it amazes me when people gripe about paying the $50 for PS+ even when they see all of the free content that they're offering with the service.
i've been a PS+ member since day one, and i'm pretty sure i've exceeded $500 worth of free content just within the first 15 months alone... that's huge savings on games, as far as i'm concerned.
Or here's a thought.
Sony is promising three free games per month with PS+. These are full games, not demos or trials or minis.
No full game sells on psn for less than $10 that I know of.
3*10=30
There are twelve months in a year.
30*12=360
Playstation Plus is $50 a year.
360-50=310
So with PS+, you will save at least $310 over buying the games retail.
And let's not forget the themes, minis, betas, cloud storage, and automatic updates.
$50? It's a bargain at twice the price.
@morkendo23
Is $49 a year, which is a better deal than other services out there for what it offers (Discounts/games/dlc's etc).
Now it's 'just take all our shit, don't worry about it braah.'
...Plus just won the contest, hands down.
That said, how the fuck is Sony making money out of this deal? I'm paranoid to find out that some small print of the agreement makes me liable for a heart transplant should a Sony executive fall ill.
$300+ bucks since launch you fools have been taken advantage of. All that money could have bought you the next gen console when it releases in the coming years. DOH!
That was the idea. All these people paying for Live are now unable to afford Sony's next console. So they have to get the NextBox to keep their Live going.
only in you delusional fanboyz mind..
many ways ? i can see only marketing, crossgame chat (meh) and american market, all the importants things for gamers : hardware, exclusives, graphics, variety, free stuffs, etc are in the sony camp.
"only in you delusional fanboyz mind..
many ways ? i can see only marketing, crossgame chat (meh) and american market, all the importants things for gamers : hardware, exclusives, graphics, variety, free stuffs, etc are in the sony camp."
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
This actually made crack up!
IMHO
XperiaRay
Seriously, when it's too good to be true I panic before I go ahead with it. I want to write Tretton a letter just to ask if he is 100% sure this is okay with him.
Remember, as a plus member these games are yours until you CANCEL your subsciption. If you are cool with that then that is awesome for you.
Me personally, I like collecting and OWNING my games.
But I am seeing a scary trend coming. BF3 is letting us rent our own servers. They are being smart about it too. These guys that rent servers are really paying EA for servers that everyone uses. Now I play on MORE RENTED SERVERS than I do the regular servers, at least 80% of the time.
Bah. That is another story.
That makes 12 PSN games, 24 minis, 12 PS1 games, and a bunch of themes and avatars for the entire year. 4 or 5 of those months you get MORE content that goes above the subscription minimum. We have gotten FULL PS3 games, additional PSN games, and so on.
Plus also gives you access to some betas and other freebies along the way. All this stuff was BEFORE the 12 game instant library.
so now you get all that other stuff PLUS the new 12 games that will rotate.
I have had Plus since the start. I started to keep a listing of everything we got monthly because personally I wanted to make sure we got everything that was promised each month. after about the 5th month of tracking I stopped. We were continually getting more then what the minimum subscription detailed.
Before this E3 12 game thing, the last few months of Plus have been getting 1 Full PS3 game and 1 PSN game. That is a whole game that was just added on for no reason at all.
Plus is a HUGE savings if you are into playing games. you might not get every game you want and some months might release a game you already own, but overall it has been extremely positive.
I will always have Plus.
The only thing I got out of this update was Virtua Fighter. I would much rather see the occasional quality game and a larger focus on new services.
I do agree that psn has long dl times, and Live is streamlined to get easy chat sessions and party chats but its not worth the money when everything else is equal and PSN+ give out games. PS+ is now giving 12+ games a month thats 148 games i play for a year with free multiplayer on all games and get into all the betas. Live i get no games and have to pay 50 bucks a year to play multiplayer on a game i already spent $60 for.
To those who say well you just rent games with plus. Well you just rent the other multiplayer half of your full priced retail game with LIVE so STFU.
This new PS+ deal looks quite tasty; might get a 3 month sub to check it out.
gonna have to get another card when i get paid
If you like something over the other thats fine whatever makes you happy BUT when you have a bunch of people singing praises at one thing while throwing crap at the other, it makes people wonder that perhaps they are just trying to convince themselves that the choice they made was the correct one.
PS+ is such a waste of money.
The problem with with PS+ is that you're having to pay 4$ a month to rent 12+ games forever. I personally would rather spend 60$, play it for a week, then turn around and sell it for 13$ credit towards another game that ill do the same thing with, in about a weeks time. That way I spent $564 playing the same amount of games on LIVE then just spending $4 on PS+. SEE how PS+ is such a waste of money.
LOL
although you're just stating facts, you're lowkey being a troll; by even mentioning LIVE (in this particular comment)... just saying
p.s. thecontroller's comment was already perfectly sarcastic