{"id":547970,"date":"2026-03-10T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-plus-premium-xbox-game-pass-reaction"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:39:00","slug":"playstation-plus-premium-is-it-really-an-xbox-game-pass-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playstation-plus-premium-is-it-really-an-xbox-game-pass-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Plus Premium: Is it really an Xbox Game Pass rival?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/playstation-plus-premium-is-it-really-an-xbox-game-pass-rival.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s big gaming news was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/sony-announces-ps-essentials-essentials-premium-game-pass\">Sony&#8217;s announcement that PS Plus will be split into three tiers<\/a> 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 &#8220;a catalog of beloved classic games available in both streaming and download options from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations&#8221; &ndash; 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).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly big announcement to drop without ceremony on a dreary Tuesday afternoon, but that&#8217;s in keeping with some of Sony&#8217;s latest announcements. To digest the information &ndash; and invariably get sidetracked and talk about Final Fantasy and Street Fighter &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<p>PS1 is a funny one. There&rsquo;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&rsquo;s brutal today. The same is true of that whole era; Saturn and N64 too. There are exceptions, but those exceptions are, y&rsquo;know, some of the best games of all time, and rare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-plus-premium-xbox-game-pass-reaction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-plus-premium-xbox-game-pass-reaction\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big gaming news was Sony&#8217;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 &#8220;a catalog of beloved classic games available in both streaming and download options from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations&#8221; &ndash; 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&#8217;s a fairly big announcement to drop without ceremony on a dreary Tuesday afternoon, but that&#8217;s in keeping with some of Sony&#8217;s latest announcements. To digest the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playstation-plus-premium-is-it-really-an-xbox-game-pass-rival\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[134,52,124,44,45,46,456,60,4616],"class_list":["post-547970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-microsoft","tag-playstation","tag-playstation-plus","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-sony","tag-xbox-game-pass","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PlayStation Plus Premium: Is it really an Xbox Game Pass rival? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today&#039;s big gaming news was Sony&#039;s announcement that PS Plus will be split into three tiers going forward: PS Plus Essentials, PS Plus Extra and PS Plus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playstation-plus-premium-is-it-really-an-xbox-game-pass-rival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PlayStation Plus Premium: Is it really an Xbox Game Pass rival? 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