PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now come together; players can choose from three flexible options.
Update: We’re making fantastic progress with our launch efforts and I wanted to update you on the latest. We’re rolling out our new offering for PlayStation Plus a little earlier in select markets in Asia, followed by Japan. Here is a look at our updated regional rollout schedule.
- Asia markets (excluding Japan) – targeting May 23, 2022 (May 24, 2022 in local time zone)
- Japan – targeting June 1, 2022 (June 2, 2022 in local time zone)
- Americas – targeting June 13, 2022
- Europe, Australia, New Zealand – targeting June 22, 2022 (June 23, 2022 in local time zone)
Additionally, we’re also expanding our cloud streaming access to the following locations for a total of 30 markets with cloud streaming access**. The following markets will also offer the Premium tier from PlayStation Plus at launch: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Republic of Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
We’ve been working on this massive global effort to provide flexible options, quality games and greater value for our members for quite some time now – and we’re just a few weeks away from our first regional rollout. We want to thank our PlayStation community for the ongoing support, and we’ll have more to share as we get closer to launch. For more information, including pricing for your local market, please visit our website at https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-plus/
Since launching PlayStation Plus in 2010, SIE has been at the forefront of innovation with game subscription services. We were thrilled to be the first console membership service that included a refreshed library of games through PlayStation Plus, and also launched the first console game streaming service with PlayStation Now.
Today, we are pleased to share with you official news about changes coming to our subscription services. This June, we’re bringing together PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now in an all-new PlayStation Plus subscription service that provides more choice to customers across three membership tiers globally.
Our focus is on providing high-quality, curated content with a diverse portfolio of games*. Below is an overview of the three membership tiers:
PlayStation Plus Essential
Benefits
- Provides the same benefits that PlayStation Plus members are getting today, such as:
- Two monthly downloadable games
- Exclusive discounts
- Cloud storage for saved games
- Online multiplayer access
- There are no changes for existing PlayStation Plus members in this tier.
Price* for PlayStation Plus Essential remains the same as the current price for PlayStation Plus.
- United States
- $9.99 monthly / $24.99 quarterly / $59.99 yearly
- Europe
- €8.99 monthly / €24.99 quarterly / €59.99 yearly
- United Kingdom
- £6.99 monthly / £19.99 quarterly / £49.99 yearly
- Japan
- ¥850 monthly / ¥2,150 quarterly / ¥5,143 yearly
PlayStation Plus Extra
Benefits
- Provides all the benefits from the Essential tier
- Adds a catalog of up to 400* of the most enjoyable PS4 and PS5 games – including blockbuster hits from our PlayStation Studios catalog and third-party partners. Games in the Extra tier are downloadable for play.
Price*
- United States
- $14.99 monthly / $39.99 quarterly / $99.99 yearly
- Europe
- €13.99 monthly / €39.99 quarterly / €99.99 yearly
- United Kingdom
- £10.99 monthly / £31.99 quarterly / £83.99 yearly
- Japan
- ¥1,300 monthly / ¥3,600 quarterly / ¥8,600 yearly
PlayStation Plus Premium**
Benefits
- Provides all the benefits from Essential and Extra tiers
- Adds up to 340* additional games, including:
- PS3 games available via cloud streaming
- A catalog of beloved classic games available in both streaming and download options from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations
- Offers cloud streaming access for original PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS4 games offered in the Extra and Premium tiers in markets** where PlayStation Now is currently available. Customers can stream games using PS4 and PS5 consoles, and PC.***
- Time-limited game trials will also be offered in this tier, so customers can try select games before they buy.
Price*
- United States
- $17.99 monthly / $49.99 quarterly / $119.99 yearly
- Europe
- €16.99 monthly / €49.99 quarterly / €119.99 yearly
- United Kingdom
- £13.49 monthly / £39.99 quarterly / £99.99 yearly
- Japan
- ¥1,550 – monthly / ¥4,300 – quarterly / ¥10,250 yearly
- PlayStation Plus Deluxe (Select Markets) For markets without cloud streaming, PlayStation Plus Deluxe will be offered at a lower price compared to Premium, and includes a catalog of beloved classic games from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations to download and play, along with time-limited game trials. Benefits from Essential and Extra tiers are also included. Local pricing will vary by market.
The new Extra and Premium tiers represent a major evolution for PlayStation Plus. With these tiers, our key focus is to ensure that the hundreds of games we offer will include the best quality content that sets us apart. At launch, we plan to include titles such as Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11, and Returnal. We’re working closely with our imaginative developers from PlayStation Studios and third-party partners to include some of the best gaming experiences available with a library that will be regularly refreshed. More details to come on the games we’ll have on our new PlayStation Plus service.
When the new PlayStation Plus service launches, PlayStation Now will transition into the new PlayStation Plus offering and will no longer be available as a standalone service. PlayStation Now customers will migrate over to PlayStation Plus Premium with no increase to their current subscription fees at launch.
As this is a massive launch effort, we’re rolling out the new PlayStation Plus offering in a phased regional approach. In the June timeframe, we’ll begin with an initial launch in several markets in Asia, followed by North America, Europe and the rest of the world where PlayStation Plus is offered. We aim to have most PlayStation Network territories live with our new PlayStation Plus game subscription service by the end of the first half of 2022. We also plan to expand our cloud streaming benefit to additional markets, and will provide more details at a later date.
Building upon more than 25 years of expertise in gaming innovation, this change to our subscription services highlights our continued efforts to evolve our network services business to match our customer’s preferences. With the all-new PlayStation Plus, we’re focused on delivering a compelling game subscription service with curated content from our exclusive PlayStation Studios team and our third-party partners. The newly enhanced PlayStation Plus will enable our fans to discover and engage with more content than ever before, and deepen their connection with the PlayStation community through shared experiences.
We’re providing an early look at our new PlayStation Plus subscription service today, and we’ll plan to share more information with you as we get closer to launch. Stay tuned.
*Local pricing may vary by market. PlayStation Plus catalog titles may also vary by market and tier, and may change over time. PlayStation Plus is an ongoing subscription subject to a recurring subscription fee taken automatically until cancellation. Age restrictions apply. Terms apply: play.st/psplus-usageterms
**Current markets where PlayStation Now is available: US, Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.
***PC streaming is not available in Japan at launch and will be supported in a future update.
why no Vita love?
PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra and Premium – very interesting! It’s good you will continue to offer the core online & PS Plus experience with the option of additional games should players want them.
I have a couple of questions:
Q) What happens if you have both a PS Plus and PS Now subscription, will the remaining months be added to your PS Plus subscription length?
Q) If you have the basic PS Plus Essential subscription how much is the upgrade cost to the other tiers, is the difference in the prices listed here or will there be a discounted rate at launch?
Thanks!
Because none of the current console will be able to run Vita games properly, due to limitations caused by the lack of touch controls, and their laziness in emulating them somehow.
I still have 2 years of PS Plus left, I just want to know what will be the cost to upgrade the service.
Have you tried to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss on a PS TV?….. let me just say one word: Unplayable lol
The vita games with touch screen functions just won’t work.
@lance_87 – technically not true.
The PSTV ran about 90% of PS Vita games just fine – a lot of games didn’t use the rear touchpad, or you could map it to the front touch-screen (which became the touchpad on the DS controllers)
There was a very small number of games that didn’t work on the device. However, they could work, as pushing in the thumbstick enabled on-screen fingers which emulated touching the rear pad, it was just fiddly so Sony blacklisted them.
Will we get games for our PS Vitas too?
We definitely need Vita games. I need Soul Sacrifice.
This is almost exactly what the reports suggested but at a reasonable yearly price.
The most overlooked issue of PlayStation now was the lack of native PS5 editions so I’m glad this has been rectified.
It’s very exciting to play PS1 and PSP games on my PS5. This is nothing but a better deal than we currently have and they keep PS plus intact if you only want that. And if you just want PS now you get migrated to PS Plus premium for free there are no losers here.
– PS1
– PS2
– PS3
– PSP
– PS4
– PS5
– And game Trials
– downloadable or stream other than PS3 in markets that allow streaming
– more relevant PS5 games being added
$120 per year MSRP.
That’s a win.
Obviously Vita games would have to be reworked due to the controls but overall I think this is a great deal. It’s a better deal than what we currently have.
I was about to comment the same thing. Shame they neglected what could’ve been the best portable since the PSP. The West got basically no support after the first year and a half in favor of putting all their bets on the PS4, which in hindsight would’ve been massive regardless. As someone who owns every Sony system released (including the Vita TV) it pains me to know that they really self sabotaged a system with so much potential. And then ignore it in favor of other older systems as we go forward.
Yeah!
This is the FIRST thing i notice!
They could simply put all PSVita library on lauch day…
If the vita games are difficult to port to others consoles, why not simply have them avaiable for download on the Vita?
turniplord: that’s why i wrote the other part of the post, duh.
Something to be mentioned that many people are concerned about is when will the PS5 be capable of playing the disc’s of the ps1,ps2 & ps3 as millions of players have large collections of physical games that they’re eager to play on the ps5 enhanced.
Xbox has done this so when will sony?
@thesamuraiman_PS I rather BluePoint Games remakes Soul Sacrifice Delta.
Totally agree. It’s a bummer it still gets looked over. There are so many awesome games that people missed out on.
I get that not all of the games are compatible due to touch input restrictions… but at the same time, the PS TV existed and it played a good majority of the games.
Many games didn’t even use touch. I think this boils down to Sony’s lack of interest to make any effort to support the Vita or it’s games any longer. What’s the point of the touch pad on the PS4 and 5 controller? Surely the emulator could use that as a work around for the touch controls. The modding community managed to do this, you’d think Sony would be able to provide this with it’s own software and hardware..
this is still a pretty cool re-work of PS+ and PS Now. Certainly compelling to re-sub..
+1
Exactly. And im sitting here trying to find one to at least use as a alt controller. You would think they would at least use it to display game info while playing ; like my pubg inventory be displayed on vita screen while using vita as a secondary controller.
touchscreen
Vita games played just fine on PSTV. There were some that relied exclusively or heavily on the touch controls, but a huge chunk, if not most, either worked fine or were patched to work with a DS.
They could easily implement touch controls for some of the games using the touch pad or by patching them.
I’m hoping this does come eventually, the Vita has a library worth playing and it’s a shame some of the titles are still trapped on it.
How do you emulate the touch screen AND the touch panel on the back?
You’d have to release a special controller to even make it workable.
is it gonna be on ps4
In their financial reports Sony usually counts PSP and PS Vita together and the text says „PSP generations“ so I think PS Vita games (at least the ones that run on PSTV) might be included.
Vita didnt have nor games already ported to ps3 or ps4, more like some indies or non canon spin offs
You could post this comment ten years ago and it be just as applicable.
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@Lance_87 Many PS Vita games didn’t use the touchscreen capabilities and many of the ones that did seldom used front and back. My point is DualShock 4 and DualSense have touchpads that could be used for many PS Vita games.
Why does the Essential say only 2 free games per month?
We typically get 3 or 4 if not more.
It should be 2 PS4 games, 2 PS5 Games.
Then the Extra tier should be 5 to 7 different titles added (excluding the Essential ones). Some could be indies, some more AAA. I’m looking for great games for great value. You can throw in the occasional day 1 releases to compete too but getting 2 GTA was a better deal imo.
Premium tier should have 3 additional games + whatever full game trials you have.
I am counting everything considering PS+ has additional discounts too in the essential plan.
@iamtylerdurden1 I definitely think there is way more good than bad here, but you will only get PS Now for ur current time. Once you renew you will be charged $120 a year even if you only want the legacy PS Now features.
I do have to wonder how common it is to have PS Now without Plus. That might be next to no one on console. I have both and will get more games out of this for the same price. However PC players definitely lose out here in a big way, based on what info is currently available. This article says more news to come on features though. Maybe there is a PS Now only solution that wasnt mentioned in this article. They can always fix that in the future I suppose. This is a big step and Im glad it’s finally happening. Gamepass will continue to apply pressure so PS Plus will only get better.
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My only request would be access to the dlc expansions for the psnow games. My favorite game is oblivion ans I has purchased every version..expansion when I had a ps3. Then it croaked now I’m stuck playing basic on ps4 thru psnow
My only request would be access to the dlc expansions for the psnow games. My favorite game is oblivion and I had purchased every version..expansion when I had a ps3. Then it croaked now I’m stuck playing basic on ps4 thru psnow
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