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Over the past few years, PlayStation Plus has become closer to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass offering with a large library of releases coming and going from the service. However, unlike Xbox Game Pass, PS Plus doesn’t release first party games Day One on its subscription service.
While many have claimed that a Day One PS Plus release may have helped games like Concord find an audience, Sony is adamant that it will never release its first-party offerings on the service less than a year after they hit store shelves.
PS Plus won’t become Game Pass
In an interview with Game File, PlayStation vice president of global services Nick Maguire explained that Sony will not release any of its major titles to the service for free until a year or longer after their release.
“We’ve sort of stayed true to our strategy across the board, where we’re not looking to put games in day and date,” the PlayStation executive explained. “Our strategy of finding four or five independent day-and-date titles – and using that to complement our strategy of bringing games in when they’re 12, 18 months old or older – that balance for us is working really well across the platform.”
Instead, Sony is committed to bringing a number of indie games to the service per year day-and-date for gamers while keeping its premium titles as a rare addition to the service. Furthermore, PlayStation is still working on bringing more retro games across its PlayStation Classics collection to PS Plus with the aim to bring “in one a month minimum”.
However, Sony’s use of PlayStation Classics on PS4 and PS5 has been annoying to some as of late with multiple first-party games being removed. For example, Resistance games and Infamous Second Son were removed from the service just a few months ago, and Maguire’s response isn’t very comforting.
“We’ve got 80 collections of games across the catalogue,” the PlayStation executive told the outlet. “So we want to keep it fresh and bring in new games. Sometimes that means taking a few games out at the same time to keep the proposition interesting and help people find new games as well.”
Despite major price hikes over the past few months, alongside an increase in console pricing, PlayStation Plus is bigger than ever. In fact, even with the price increase, Sony has confirmed that more price adjustments are coming as more players are buying into the more expensive tiers of PS Plus in order to access more games and freebies.
