PlayStation Plus Upgrades This Summer To Take On Xbox Game Pass: All The Details
Sony has been reportedly working on anXbox Game Passcompetitor for months and, today, we finally got to see what the company has been plotting all this time.Sony has revealedthatPlayStation Pluswill be getting an upgrade in June 2022 that will introduce new subscription tiers with varying perks, including downloadable games and PlayStation Now streaming. The name of the service isn’t changing — it’ll still be called PlayStation Plus — but this is clearly Sony’s answer to Xbox Game Pass.
Souped-up PlayStation Plus brings a library of modern and classic games
PlayStation Plus Premium is going to cost a fair amount of money: $17.99 per month/$119.99 per year. It’s worth pointing out that Premium’s monthly cost is a little bit more than the $14.99 Microsoft charges for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which bundles Xbox Live Gold with the console and PC versions of Xbox Game Pass along with Xbox Game Streaming.
Sony details new PlayStation Plus release date and launch games
While Sony wasn’t ready to talk specifics about many of the games today, it did reveal a few of the titles that will be available at launch. We can expect to see titles like “Death Stranding,” “God of War,” “Marvel’s Spider-Man, “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales,” “Mortal Kombat 11,” and “Returnal” available through the overhauled PlayStation Plus when it launches, though that’s a small portion of the roughly 700 games Sony plans to offer.
We’ll see this new PlayStation Plus roll out beginning in June, though Sony says it will be taking a “phased regional approach” to this launch. Asian markets will be the first to get it, then North American and Europe, then other regions of the world where PlayStation Plus is available. Sony says that it’s planning to have “most PlayStation Network territories live” by the end of the first half of 2022, so this roll out is going to happen fast once it gets underway in June. We’ll let you know when Sony shares more details about the revamped PlayStation Plus, so stay tuned.
