PlayStation Plus Premium Is Coming In June, Inspiring Reactions And Memes From Gamers About Cloud Streaming PS3 Games
Yesterday, Sony announced the all-new PlayStation Plus subscription service with plans for the Xbox Game Pass competitor to be released in June this year. The update is already generating both hype and concern with many gamers voicing their concerns about pricing, as well as cloud streaming PS3 games.
In a PlayStation blog post published yesterday, Sony laid out its plan to combine PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into one subscription service, offering 700-plus games both classic and modern. The service consists of three separate tiers: PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium.
The service is said to be released in small markets starting in June 2022. The first markets will be in Asia, followed by North America, Europe and the rest of the world. Also at launch, Sony plans to include major titles such as Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11 and Returnal in its primary bundle.
The most common reaction to the update regarded a statement made by Sony within the fine print of the PlayStation Premium tier. According to the blog post, classic PS3 games would also be available via cloud streaming. To some, this was disappointing, with many hoping that Sony would pull through with PS3 emulation. Many memes and tweets surfaced regarding this tension as some theorized that emulation of older consoles proved to be too hard for the developers.
Even though there were some negative reactions regarding the price ranges, most gamers seemed to be excited with the overall prospect. Now, as everyone awaits the subscription service's release in June, it'll be interesting to see how the community reacts post-drop.
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MCC1701
PS3 emulation would have been preferable but as I understand the PS3's really funky architecture makes that hard, though I'm sure not impossible. It could be that it is in the works and it's better to offer cloud streaming now rather than nothing, but that's just speculation.
PS3 titles are interesting as with the dominance of the 360 during much of it's lifespan and no backwards compatibility with the PS4 a large amount of people never had a chance to play those games. Some mainline ones like Infamous and Uncharted received "remasters" but there are plenty of others. Motorstorm, Resistance: Fall of Man, and the OG Demon's Souls are good ones from just the top of my head. I've never tried cloud streaming, hopefully it is decent enough for people to try some of these titles. Having them be rereleased for cheap or free as part of this service would be ideal, but I'm not holding my breath.
I will say this particular sticking point is amusing. Even if they had every PS3 title ever available natively, you know 99% of people are just going to use the service for more recent titles.
supergoron
Oh boy cloud streaming PS3 games….Because that's what people wanted right Sony ?
ConspiracyNut
They can't sell me what I want, because I already have working a PlayStation 2 and 3 and any replacement is going to be from a yard sale or pawn shop.