Sony's attempt to justify the PS Plus price hike with the lackluster lineup and features of Sony Pictures Core leaves a lot to be desired.
“After digging through the PlayStation Plus library, I discovered a genuine treat with the adorable and super-fun Tinykin so let's get small.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
The PS5 is an incredible console, and if you're lucky enough to have one, or have just received one for Christmas then you'll already know there is a host of great games out there.
What you may not be aware of is that if you subscribe to PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium, you'll actually get access to a huge catalogue of titles to play at any time. Many of which you can stream without having to do any downloads. If you have a PlayStation Portal you could even play these titles from your bed.
Damn the only one I’ve played so far is Miles Morales, although I do own Control and Rift Apart.
Odd list. Where is Horizon Forbidden West? Ghost of Tsushima? Demon’s Souls? Returnal? And fun indie games like Superliminal? Where’s “A Plage Tale Requiem” and “Evil West”, the current PS+ Essential offerings?
Like seriously? Those are games Extra Tier can get - so not worth upgrading to Premium
from eXputer "After the price hike, PS Plus suffered heavy damage, which it seems to be making amends for, but the question is, will this quality continue?"
Wait...ps plus has been decent many months of the past year. January is no exception. Even ps plus worst month is better than alternatives.
@JW2SD
This looks to be a pretty ironic comment looking through your comment history.
You seem to be quite the fanboy yourself.
Pot, meet kettle...
What are you guys talking about!? PS+ has been seen widely by the vast majority as being very poor since the price increase. Take a look at their official blog or any PS+ thread, to see that a good 90% has been people complaining about how bad it has been since the price increase.
Honestly the state of some of you people. They flashed GTA5 at you (a 13 year old game) and all of a sudden you turned skirts and 180’d. All of a sudden it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Pathetic.
Ah its been 2 good months. More than likely it will drop off again because this has happened multiple times for the last 3 years
That month with all those rpgs a bit ago was fantastic. People gotta realize not every game is gonna be tailored to them. I don't much care for the stuff this month but I won't knock it. Don't knock it till you try it, I have other stuff to play so I'm not trying it therefore not knocking
Are they talking about PS Essential and comparing it to Gamepass?
Game Pass will soon have all the games from Activision Blizzard, and the upcoming Call of Duty game this year might be available on Game Pass from the first day.
They will put the most popular games from Activision and blizzard on there. Shame though cause I haven't really liked an Activision game since those superhero rpgs they did back on ps3 and 360. O ultimate alliance. They might throw a few bones of some old school games from when Activision actually tried stuff but cod, the newer Tony hawks , I can't even think of anything else , I'm good on those.
Phil Spencer “just wait “
Also just wait for the price increase
Cos that’s coming as soon as cod drops
It's still better than ps plus without Activision Blizzard games.
I remember back when game pass was first starting playstation fans said sony doesn't need a service like that. I guess the times have changed...lol
Reaper22_
"I remember back when game pass was first starting playstation fans said sony doesn't need a service like that. I guess the times have changed...lol"
You miss the point.
What people were against was the day one games because they can't bring in the type of revenue needed to support game development because they knew people would stop buying games,
For example there is about a zero percent chance that Starfield has made back the costs of an 8 year dev cycle on less than 3m sales which were the majority were Steam. And reporting tells us that subscription membership across the board are down or at best flat so an argument can't even be made that Starfield pulled in anywhere close to the number of people needed to sustain the type of budgets games like this require. Interestingly Microsoft has since stopped reporting subscription numbers and staff no longer get bonuses based on subscription growth.
Also keep in mind PlayStation already had a Subscription PlayStation Now, and that PlayStation had been giving out games on a subscription since PS3.
Tbh I haven't play a single Activision game for at least a decade now, I wouldn't notice if suddenly it disappear from the gaming world.
Gamepass destroys ps plus but yeah keep trying to convince yourself otherwise lol.
I honestly think that PC gaming is superior to both in this regard. I think the larger up front cost is offset by so many things.
It doesn't though does it. Day one games absolutely. Overall quality and price absolutely not
GP and PS+ are fine if you never want to own your games.
Personally I prefer to drop money on the games I want to own, not a rental service.
I don't think it's an issue to add movies to the subscription. However, it is an issue when it's forced on the base version increasing the price for everyone.
While I get millions of people use their consoles as their Entertainment Hub, it is still a gaming console first, and the subscription service should reflect such. Now if this was part of PS+ Extra or Premium, okay understandable, but it should be forced on the base subscription service.
It's also again shows that Sony just completely LACKS a marketing team in touch with global standards. That is one area where Microsoft and I'd even say Nintendo are clearly ahead. If you're going to do something like this, then don't just hike price and then stealth drop mid movies or early access. Have a presser around all of this, and again stick it in the Premium Tier. Have something like:
1. Purchase all Sony Pictures Movies launch Day 1 alongside theaters (Premium Only)
2. Sony Ad-based Music Streaming Service for quick access to background music (Premium Only)
3. Sony Ad-based Exclusive Entertainment Content, sports, concerts, shows, etc... Live and via VR (Premium Only)
4. Enhanced PS1 and PS2 Classics offering Trophy support improved resolution and textures (Premium & Extra)
5. Access to EA Play through PS Game Catalog (Premium & Extra)
6. 1 additional "Monthly Game" Exclusively for PSVR or PSVR2 game per month (Premium & Extra)
At that point it's understandable raising the price on those two specific tiers and most people wouldn't care, because if you want Premium Entertainment for the entire household get the Premium Tier for even $199 without a bunch of complaints. If you want the best overall gaming service PlayStation has to offer without the need for movies, music, and TV content then get the Extra Tier. If you want a basic low cost service with monthly games and online play then get Essentials for $60 or even acceptable at $70, not $80 for content GAMERS don't care about.
100 movies from the past 40 years that were most likely free on crackle (Sony owned ad based streaming service) I've taken a look there's some ok things but it's still a large list of old movies that I'm sure pretty much everyone has seen by this point.
So as for value it's not very valuable and you're required to rent it but anything that isn't on that list of 100.
I best this cost them almost nothing to build an app that serves a few freebies when they were already going to use it to distribute movies at a price
100 relatively old movies*
& the OPPORTUNITY TO BUY Gran Turismo before other streaming platforms.
For The Players ❤️
Core is obviously a relaunch of video that added a category to benefit PlayStation subscribers. The service allows you to build a digital streaming library WITH the perk of select movies being available to watch.
It’s weird to me how people scream they want options and value and anytime it comes they act like a victim forced into a corner.
Nothing about core is forced on you, you don’t HAVE to utilize it at all. Just like you don’t have to watch every show/movie on Netflix, max, Hulu etc. you never hear anyone complain they released old movies on those platforms. But somehow you complain here, just be quiet.
Now you can watch great Sony films like Morbius, The Emoji Movie and The Dark Tower again, and again and again…