Stuff: A press release yesterday announcing that free downloadable copies of Batman Arkham City, Limbo and Vanquish will be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers from December 5 is another compelling argument for PlayStation 3 owners to sign up. It's also a strong stance that Sony sees the PlayStation brand as a games player first and foremost. And with the PlayStation Plus service now available to PS Vita owners (who will be able to download Mortal Kombat and Knytt Underground for their handheld device from mid-December), Sony is sending a signal to its rivals that it values its user base.
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Bubbles me up for that comment :)
For the autumn sale I purchased about 20 games (a couple being very big AAA games such as The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition) for a little more than $60. On top of that, I can continue playing them and not have to spend another $60 next year to renew a subscription ;)
The difference is that once downloaded I can download them again like Resident Evil 5 Golden Edition, Infamous 2, Little Big Planet 2, Uncharted Golden Abyss, Batman: Arkham City, Limbo, or Crysis 2 are just some of the games that are / were on the list.
There already are services such as IGN-Prime which gives early betas, discounts and free game per month (and that's a free game that you get to keep even after subscription runs out)
... there's also Gamefly and OnLive which offer subscription-based service if you want access to a library of 'free' games.
Valve doesn't need to follow suit.
Netflix, Phone, Internet service, Cable, XboxLive, Gamefly....it is all the same.
so ask yourself....is any of that other stuff worth it?
Plus is full of value. You get to play many games throughout the year for $50. Yes, your money is gone after that year, but you traded it to play games.
You can look at any payed service as money wasted, but you got the value of that service for your money, it is not wasted.
Just today, I told my friend(owner of a PS3 Super Slim, Wii U, Wii, Xbox 360, Vita, DS, 3DS, and PSP) about PS Plus and he shrugged it off.
Sony needs to start advertising PS Plus more. People don't UNDERSTAND what its all about.
@guitarded- You criticize me for using my friend as a benchmark for all PS3 gamers(whom I was just using as an example, not a benchmark), but its okay for you to suggest that the gamers on the PS Blog/ur PSN friends list are indicative of mainstream PS3 owners? Hypocrisy?
I wasn't criticizing you. I was simply pointing out your generalization and offering a comparison of other gamers who use the service. I agree that Sony needs to let more people know about the service... a commercial would be nice. I think you're too sensitive for real debate and open discussion. I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings, just trying to have a real discussion.
I think a month is more than enough time to learn about plus, use it and know if its for you or not.
90 days should be the limit to free trials. I want Sony to make money from PS+ so they can improve the service going fwd.
MS makes 100's of millions each year from Gold members...Sony need that kind of additional revenue.
Sony need to promote PSN, PS+ and PS Home to the casual audience more so than the core.
I personally know girls (real girls, yes REAL! not shemale avatars lol) who have bought a 12GB PS3 on the cheap just to use PS Home and things like TV catch up and music video services. This type of user does not necessarily purchase PS3 for its games, but more it's social aspect.
It's become part of the bundle packages as well, just Like Microsoft does by offering a trial basis for Xbox Live Gold when you buy the system.
I do think it is a good service worth emulating because what Sony has done is keep the integral part of online multiplayer apart and differentiate themselves from Xbox Live by giving consumers a real choice. Microsoft integrates everything within Xbox Live so that consumers are virtually forced to pay for the service. It's a mock-up of what cable providers do and bundling channel packages and thus making certain channels as hostage. Want one channel? Sorry, you need to bundle it with 4 other channels. Now I'm not going to get into what's better but what I will say is I like having a choice.
It's the way that subscription based services work.
Kinect Fun Labs: Mars Rover Landing
Kinect Playfit
Kinect Fun Labs: 5 Micro Lab Challenge (NEW)
Doritos Crash Course
Game Room
Harms Way
Hexic HD
Intel Discovered
Kinect Fun Labs - Kinect Rush: Snapshot
Kinect Fun Labs – Air Band
Kinect Fun Labs – Avatar Kinect
Kinect Fun Labs – Battle Stuff
Kinect Fun Labs - Bobble Head
Kinect Fun Labs - Build-A-Buddy
Kinect Fun Labs - Googly Eyes
Kinect Fun Labs – I Am Super
Kinect Fun Labs - Kinect Me
Kinect Fun Labs – Musical Feet
Kinect Fun Labs – Mutation Station
Voice Studio
TotemBall
Dash Of Destruction (may no longer be available unless its on a hard drive)
Aegis Wing
Happy Wars
Pinball FX2
Free DLC
Kinect Sports - Party Pack DLC
Rock Band 3 - Free DLC Pack 1
Red Dead Redemption - Outlaws to the End Co-Op Mission Pack
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Title Update
The Godfather - Title Update + $50k In-Game Money
Kameo Elements of Power - Design-A-Skin Pack + Co-Op Pack (0 point achievements but still count as an achievement Won)
Project Gothic Racing 4 - Free challenge Pack DLC
I think there is more but got tired of researching. I think the point has been made.
So you are wrong. Free games (and content) is NOT just on the PS3.
Don't.
Second: a list full of Kinect games? Which are useless to the 50-55 million 360 owners out there with no Kinect?
Third: aren't the Red Dead, Ghost Recon, and Rock Band DLC packs available on PS3 as well? I at least recall paying nothing for Outlaws to the End.
Fourth: you took josephayal seriously.
C'mon, man.
First of all Josephayal didn't state he was not being serious so why wouldn't anyone assume he is?
Second, why does it matter if it's "kinect" games? They are still "games" which are found on the 360 given away for free by MS. The topic that Josephayal created was that free games are ONLY found on the PS3. It doesn't matter if they are Kinect games, Arcade games or retail games. They are still "games". Your rationality is very ignorant for you to pick and choose what games are classified as games.
Third, It's doesn't matter if games or DLC are also available for free on other systems. Point is, is that MS ALSO have them for free as well. Nothing was stated as "exclusive only". It still amazes me that people like you have an issue believing multiplat games are still games.
Doritos Crash Course
Game Room
Harms Way
Hexic HD
Intel Discovered
Voice Studio
TotemBall
Dash Of Destruction (may no longer be available unless its on a hard drive)
Aegis Wing
Happy Wars
Pinball FX2
Are all NOT Kinect games...so your argument holds no water.
Fourth, you already said not to take Josephayal seriously so technically this is not a fourth, it's just a regurgitated comment you already made.
Stop being so narrow minded and think only games on systems YOU like only count as games in a conversation about games.
PS+ is the best thing to happen to PSN, if your avoiding it, Your a fool.
That is a wonderful gift @ Neo-Axl.
That's an alright gift for my two best friends isn't it?
a lots of content , i played most of the ps3 stuff but i know that i wont be able to buy vita games , so it worth it for me :P , next week we will get batman / vanquish and mortal kombat for vita , didn't play them before ^^
My only gripe is the inflated prices on PS Store...I mean £59.99 for Farcry 3, when I walked into HMV and picked it up for £39.99...That's £20 more for a product with zero shipping, packaging costs???
I realize the publishers themselves set the prices...but paying £20 more for a digital release is ridiculous!!!
Can't UBI-Softer with your prices??