New PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue Thread

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Gamma_Winstead

Playstation now is an absolute dumpster fire. Imagine if gamepass didn’t offer any of Microsoft’s new games, and the ones they did offer was just crap they already gave away with plus, and sometimes halo 5 is there for a three month period. That’s now. It sucks.

And now they’re planning on charging for what is essentially the backwards compatibility people have asked forever for? Sony just keeps winning I guess.

Sony is never going to offer day and date on their big AAA games. Those games cost too much to make and it's not sustainable to throw them in a subscription service day 1. They simply cannot afford to take the financial hit from lost sales the way MS can and make no mistakes, MS IS losing $$ from Game Pass. You may as well forget that ever happening unless Sony decides to significantly lower the production quality of their games and I don't think anybody here wants that!

[Mavrick]

For what it’s worth there is a Sony patent for Trophies via emulation. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/...NATIONALBIBLIO

It was filed Nov 2020 with a publication date March 2021.

Game awards is just around the corner so maybe we will find out more sooner rather than later. Spring 2022 isn’t that far off either way.

The word is they will be dropping PS Now branding and keeping PS+ as the umbrella. Including a catalog of classic PlayStation titles would be great for PC gamers and would entice valuable service subscribers from PC to bolster Sonys bank accounts by making it accessible on that platform just like MS has done.

Without offering any day and date first party titles though I don’t see how it would be good value for money. Nintendo has been offering back catalog games with their online service and that only cost £17.99 a year. Pricing on this will be crucial.

I would hope the price of tier 1 would be less than what we pay now with tier 2 being what we currently pay and tier 3 would probably be double what we currently pay which would probably push more people towards a monthly sub rather than annual.

I wonder how they will handle the conversion for people who already have a few years of PS+ banked already. I know a years worth of gamepass converted to less than a years worth of GPU. Knowing Sony you will just have to pay the difference to unlock the tier you want.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Steelmaker

I've said from the very beginning that streaming games can **** off! Not interested! Will not pay for it! Download or bust! And yes, that includes PS3 games! And even if they do manage to make PS3 games downloadable, I still wouldn't subscribe unless games like MGS 4, Motorstorm 1 & 2, Mod Nation Racers, and Resistance 1 & 2 were available.

PC's atm can brute force emulate PS3 games, there's becoming little reason why Sony couldn't make an easier official method and let us download them. Although this is a company struggling to have 1:1 compatibility with even PS4 titles

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

PC's atm can brute force emulate PS3 games, there's becoming little reason why Sony couldn't make an easier official method and let us download them. Although this is a company struggling to have 1:1 compatibility with even PS4 titles

But then they managed to release one of the worst emulators possible with the PS mini lol I wouldn’t trust Sony to do anything good with emulators lol

Better off paying the fans to make it for them.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

But then they managed to release one of the worst emulators possible with the PS mini lol I wouldn’t trust Sony to do anything good with emulators lol

Better off paying the fans to make it for them.

Yeah, apparently the mods made for it actually made it far better.

I'm currently trying to locate my NES classic.

[Zivouhr]

If you could download and rent the full emulated library of PS1 games for $19.99 a year, that would be nice. Otherwise, I play my PS1 collection on my PS2 and PS3. My PS1 kept overheating with the image onscreen being all dark and scrambled, so I gave it away to a friend many years ago.

[The Apocalypse]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

WTF Guys!!

When did you all turn into me and offering pessimism at a Sony cashgrab?! Stealing my shtick!

Personally I tried to keep mine under wraps, or at least be rather subtle about it, so I didn't want to steal your spotlight

[KRW1]

I'm such a sucka I'll probably give this a go unless it's a total piss take.

[Mavrick]

Sony have given the order to pull all PS Now subscription cards from retailers in the UK so I guess they will have some news on this new service soon.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...m-uk-retailers

[Derb]

If there was something on PS Now I wanted to play, I’d have a subscription.

I do not have a subscription.

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Derb

If there was something on PS Now I wanted to play, I’d have a subscription.

I do not have a subscription.

Same.

[Mavrick]

Got to wonder if this ties in with the backwards compatibility patent that’s just come out. Looks like Cerny found a way to make it work on PS5 so I’m wondering if they will be shoving that behind the new paywall.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Got to wonder if this ties in with the backwards compatibility patent that’s just come out. Looks like Cerny found a way to make it work on PS5 so I’m wondering if they will be shoving that behind the new paywall.

God, if that's true, another reason to hate Sony business practices

Look at MS, found a way to allow you to play Xbox, 360 etc. games on their consoles and as long as you own the disc, you get a free download of an enhanced version their BC team has been working on. All for free as far as i'm aware.

To paywall more features is pathetic. I have PS Now atm because of the cheap 50% off discount but generally wouldn't consider it. In fact, their selections a bit dire but to buy the games i would play would have been more so i went for it.

Let's hope Sony actual announce something good and friendly and to rival Game Pass for proper value that combines PS+ and PS Now and enhances them even more to actually give value.

[ratandjmt]

Am I the only one that could care less about this? Don't get me wrong. I'd love to replay Legend of Dragoon in 4K but I'm assuming that's not going to happen. What I'm expecting from this is the same pixelated game that we used to play only now it's stretched to fit my widescreen TV.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't think that going to be the case.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by ratandjmt

Am I the only one that could care less about this? Don't get me wrong. I'd love to replay Legend of Dragoon in 4K but I'm assuming that's not going to happen. What I'm expecting from this is the same pixelated game that we used to play only now it's stretched to fit my widescreen TV.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't think that going to be the case.

On PS3 models that had BC, there was an option to keep it in the original aspect ratio. So who knows.

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by Derb

If there was something on PS Now I wanted to play, I’d have a subscription.

I do not have a subscription.

There's a decent amount from the PS3 era on there that I wouldn't mind playing if it wasn't streaming only. I don't have good enough internet to do that and stream TV at the same time since we cut the cord, so that's not an option. I was dumb and sold my PS3 a while back, but I'd just buy another one off eBay (with plenty of research of course) before I'd struggle with streaming the games. It's not that I think PS Now is bad. It's not close to Game Pass, but I'd probably be a subscriber if I could.

Hopefully the new service at least allows you to download the games. No matter what it is, if most of the backwards compatible games from before the PS4 are streaming only I'll continue to ignore the service.

[Talal86]

I don’t believe the BC rumors, I don’t see it happening, but I’d love to be proven wrong

Anyway, my plus subscription expired earlier this month, and I have no interest in renewing it now, but if they offered a better service than the current model, I’m in

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by ratandjmt

Am I the only one that could care less about this? Don't get me wrong. I'd love to replay Legend of Dragoon in 4K but I'm assuming that's not going to happen. What I'm expecting from this is the same pixelated game that we used to play only now it's stretched to fit my widescreen TV.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't think that going to be the case.

Aside from a handful of PS3 games, I pretty much feel the same way. I've never been a nostalgic or retro gamer. When a new gen starts, it's very easy for me to close the door on the previous gen and not look back. I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to revisit anything prior to the HD/widescreen era.

[joonskeezle]

The only thing I want out of a Game Pass type service is downloadable PS3 games.

That's it.

There aren't a ton of pre-PS4 games that I think I need to play again, but there's maybe a dozen PS3 games I would still like to be able to play from time to time; specifically the Ratchet & Clank games, Katamari Forever, and a handful of JRPGs.

And streaming is garbage no matter how good your connection.

[Mavrick]

PS3 games are now on the PS store, fuelling rumours backwards compatibility is on its way to PS5