Today’s big gaming news was Sony’s announcement that PS Plus will be split into three tiers going forward: PS Plus Essentials, PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium. On the top end of the subscription, Sony notes that we can expect “a catalog of beloved classic games available in both streaming and download options from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations” – which will join a library of about 400 PlayStation 4 and 5 games on the mid-tier, as well as all the basics on the entry tier (online play, four games per month, and so on).
It’s a fairly big announcement to drop without ceremony on a dreary Tuesday afternoon, but that’s in keeping with some of Sony’s latest announcements. To digest the information – and invariably get sidetracked and talk about Final Fantasy and Street Fighter – three VG247 staff members frantically chatted about the situation, in the hopes of understanding what Sony may be thinking with its tepid reply to Xbox and its Game Pass regime.
PS1 is a funny one. There’s a nostalgic charm to the look of PS1 games, which is why a lot of indie developers have started to make games that echo that style. But I think when you actually play a PS1 game, how they run, the feel of them, it’s brutal today. The same is true of that whole era; Saturn and N64 too. There are exceptions, but those exceptions are, y’know, some of the best games of all time, and rare.
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