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[kingfey]

60/year sounds a lot better than 10/month to me.

The problem is spending first. Not enough gamers are dumb to pay that upfront. Only those who have no sense of money can do it.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

PlayStation plans 3 Spartacus tiers for as much as $16 per month

PlayStation's Spartacus subscription upgrade will add Extra and Premium tiers for $13 and $16 per month, respectively.

venturebeat.com

Sony is looking to expand PlayStation Plus by introducing new features and by integrating elements from PlayStation Now. Bloomberg originally reported about these efforts — which Sony internally calls “Spartacus” — in December. But now GamesBeat can provide some more info on what these new offerings look like.

Spartacus is an evolution of PlayStation Plus with three tiers. It currently calls those tiers Essential, Extra, and Premium — although those names could change between now and when the service launches. The subscription for these programs is monthly and starts at $10 and goes up to $16. And what do each of those tiers get you? Here’s the current plan:

	Monthly games	Game catalogue	Streaming	Classic games	Game trials	Price
PS+ Essential	X					$10
PS+ Extra	X	X				$13
PS+ Premium	X	X	X	X	X	$16

PS+ Essential is the PS+ that you already know. For $10 per month, you get monthly games that you can add to your library. This works a lot like it already works today.

PS+ Extra, meanwhile, gets you the monthly games and a game catalogue for $13 per month. The game catalogue is a library of hundreds of older, downloadable games. This seems like Sony ripped the download catalogue out of PS Now and popped it into PS+ instead.

PS+ Premium gets you all of the above and then everything else for $16 per month. That everything else includes PS Now’s streaming capabilities. You also get a library of “classic games” as well as a new “game trials” feature. Game trials enables you to download and start playing the full versions of new PlayStation games. This likely has a time-limit function, which is similar to how game trials work on the EA Play service from Electronic Arts.

Again, all of these prices and names could change. But this is the general outline of what to expect from Spartacus. And these features should make PS Plus look much stronger in comparison to Xbox Game Pass. While Sony will not include full versions of its blockbuster games in PS Plus on day one, game trials will at least give a bigger audience a chance to sample those games.

Sony is moving into a testing phase for Spartacus in the next few weeks. And it could announce the details of its new membership program in March — although that’ll depend on whether it is ready to roll out the service.

Ok so basically what you're telling me is the ps+ I use right now (which will become "ps+ essential") will now cost $120 ($150cad) for literally the exact fucking service?

 

[ethomaz]

Jeff Grub that is all.

 

[kingfey]

Ok so basically what you're telling me is the ps+ I use right now (which will become "ps+ essential") will now cost $120 ($150cad) for literally the exact fucking service?

depends on what games they do. Currently, we have limited games.

 

[ethomaz]

depends on what games they do. Currently, we have limited games.

PS+ Essential, if exists at all, won’t be more than $70 per year.
But this “report” is just made up shit.

 

[kingfey]

PS+ Essential, if exists at all, won’t be more than $70 per year.
But this “report” is just made up shit.

It will depend, if they are trying day1 games.

 

[ckaneo]

16 sounds dumb. Make it 15 then raise it to 16 later

 

[ethomaz]

It will depend, if they are trying day1 games.

Essential won’t have game catalog… just the two monthly games.

 

[Ezekiel_]

16 sounds dumb. Make it 15 then raise it to 16 later

9.99$
12.99$
15.99$

 

[kingfey]

Essential won’t have game catalog… just the two monthly games.

well, that is dumb. Unless it has extra day 1 games, then price hike is worthless.

 

[Vognerful]

This sounds like nothing new, just reshuffling what currently exist.

 

[ethomaz]

well, that is dumb. Unless it has extra day 1 games, then price hike is worthless.

What price hike? Essential should not cost more than PS+ because it is basically PS+.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Gotta give Jeff some credit, he has gotten some things right but we shall see.

He is wrong far more often than he is right. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day does not mean we should be paying attention to the broken clock.

 

[adamsapple]

So, no day 1 games but trials for x length/hours ?

Yeah, no.

Also, there's another thread discussing the exact same thing:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/classic-games-will-reportedly-be-%E2%80%98a-major-part%E2%80%99-of-playstation%E2%80%99s-game-pass-rival.1631194/page-5#post-265694486

 

[Kagey K]

So, no day 1 games but trials for x length/hours ?

Yeah, no.

Also, there's another thread discussing the exact same thing:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/classic-games-will-reportedly-be-%E2%80%98a-major-part%E2%80%99-of-playstation%E2%80%99s-game-pass-rival.1631194/page-5#post-265694486

That other thread was based on a podcast, this one is a new written article.

New news new thread

(Even though they are using the same source)

 

[Kagey K]

This sounds like nothing new, just reshuffling what currently exist.

It'll be about milking you to play those classic games, if they don't make them available to purchase. (Who would want to play those?)

They won't get all 3rd parties in on free trials, so those will be limited. I just dont understand where tier 3 makes sense.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

16$, no way i pay that for streaming shit and a restricted list of games...

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Just regular plus for me please.

Yup, my backlog is already insane on PS, and I’ve got gamepass for 3 years on Xbox. I’m good for now!

Might try and snag some more standard PS+ to stack before they jack the price…

 

[Skyfox]

See, here's the problem, Sony and I don't have the same taste in medium to low priced games and they won't put their most valuable stuff on any value priced option.

Same to Microsoft but for now they're pumping cash into gamepass so I'm using it. I know they're trying to undermine ownership so I'll keep buying games too.

I won't renew it long term though.

I like to choose what I play, especially with all the woke crap floating around. Yeah, I see where this is all going.

 

[Rudius]

I'll pay it if the classic gsmes can be played using the local PS5 hardware.

 

[cormack12]

Ok so basically what you're telling me is the ps+ I use right now (which will become "ps+ essential") will now cost $120 ($150cad) for literally the exact fucking service?

I don't see a 100% increase in price, that's insane

 

[Chukhopops]

Curious about this but I don’t see myself paying for both subs or switching from GPU to this, especially for trials.

Still good news as it forces MS to not get too complacent about GP.

 

[ksdixon]

Only give a shit about the classic games. Hope they're downloadable and not just via streaming-only.

 

[sinnergy]

Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans

 

[MonarchJT]

16 dollar for the highest tier is fine, i just wanna know what spartacus can offer.

without dayone releases gamepass ultimate at 14.99 make it pass like the poor citizen service. If they wanted to compete with gamepass well this is the wrong way

 

[Bo_Hazem]

All is that Grubb Jeff

 

[Putonahappyface]

Grubb All is that Jeff

 

[Kerotan]

So the basic version of plus is getting a pay increase effectively?

Edit:

Grubby

 

[Kupfer]

Not interested in any of these "new" features. I'd actually like a model without any games but online services for like a fraction of the "essentials". Just give me online play and cloud saves and I'm fine.

 

[Swift_Star]

Can I just get free cloud saves?

That’s never happening, sadly.

 

[GHound]

Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans

No.

 

[Swift_Star]

The problem is spending first. Not enough gamers are dumb to pay that upfront. Only those who have no sense of money can do it.

What? Paying monthly is way stupid since it’s double the price if you don’t cancel it. It’s way better to pay upfront.

 

[kingfey]

What? Paying monthly is way stupid since it’s double the price if you don’t cancel it. It’s way better to pay upfront.

Paying monthly means you can afford it.

$180 at once, isn't realistic.

I can't buy elden ring now, since I am over the budget for gaming this month.

Unless you are a person, who can casually spend $200 like it's nothing, then you won't spend that much.

Also $10 is fast food money. Tons of people can afford it, and you can get that $10 back. You can also cancel the plan if you don't like it.

 

[Duchess]

Can I just get free cloud saves?

Literally all I want, too. Or £10 a year.

 

[Zeroing]

Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans

From my experience here on neogaf I can assure Sony fans are usually the first to complain about anything Sony does, while other fans from other corporations usually embrace those changes and defend them no matter what.

 

[Swift_Star]

I'll pay it if the classic gsmes can be played using the local PS5 hardware.

This is what I’m hoping for. Really wish to p

Paying monthly means you can afford it.

$180 at once, isn't realistic.

I can't buy elden ring now, since I am over the budget for gaming this month.

Unless you are a person, who can casually spend $200 like it's nothing, then you won't spend that much.

Also $10 is fast food money. Tons of people can afford it, and you can get that $10 back. You can also cancel the plan if you don't like it.

$60 at once, not 180.

 

[adamsapple]

Now PlayStation pass will be great and liked by Sony fans

"Subscription services are obviously the future ... now "

 

[Chronicle]

I'm pretty sure everyone will want this for free. Then they'll cry about no free online. Then they'll cry about the $1 gamepass. Then they'll cry because they're gamers. I'm sure they were crying before this all too, about something out there.

I'll judge this when it's announceded. I'm happy with ps plus as is. PS now would be decent but streaming is terrible - no if, ands, or buts about it. I tried Sonic on there and the lag made the game unplayable. It's just too fast paced.

Honestly, I find with subscription services it devalues the products. Maybe I'm old school (I am), but I spend more time scrolling Netflix/Prime etc than I do watching anything. I found the same with my short PS now experience. I downloaded some games and never even opened them. Not really sure why either. It just seemed to make them unappealing to me. It's an odd experience.

 

[kingfey]

$60 at once, not 180.

They guy was talking about the $1 gamepass conversion. You need $180 or 3 $60 xbox live gold all used at once.

 

[GHound]

I can assure Sony fans are usually the first to complain about anything Sony does

Guilty as charged. If they lock classic titles behind some subscription model I'm gonna

Spoiler

write some strongly worded letters and give them a firm handshake.

 

[Swift_Star]

Guilty as charged. If they lock classic titles behind some subscription model I'm gonna

Spoiler

write some strongly worded letters and give them a firm handshake.

Im betting people will eat this just like they ate NSO. People don’t care, they just pay and that’s it.

 

[Star-Lord]

All is that, Grubb Jeff.

 

[SteelCurtain 59]

No day 1 releases and classic games limited to streaming. Doesn't seem worth anywhere close to $16/month

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

So you have to have a paid subscription to play demos? You can't make this shit up. Sony demopass is d.o.a.

 

[cash_longfellow]

16 sounds dumb. Make it 15 then raise it to 16 later

Netflix, is that you??

 

[EverydayBeast]

Gamers should be sending a no fee request to big companies.

 

[DarkestHour]

Playstation +

Playstation + Plus

Playstation + Plus + ( Plus + Plus)^+Plus

Why no Playstation Plusser?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Jeff Grub that is all

That Is All jeff grub

Jeff That is All Grubb

Grub all Jeff all is that.

All grub is Jeff

Jeff Grub that is all.

All is that Grubb Jeff

Grubb All is that Jeff

All is that, Grubb Jeff.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

Why no Playstation Plusser?

PlayStation Plussie Plus tier?

 

[AV]

Grub grub grub grub grub grub.