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Sony: Day One PS Plus New Releases To Continue. "A Very Interesting and Innovative Way to Publish Games. It Works For Us and Subscribers Love It".
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Yep. I never would've bought Destruction AllStars at retail but been having a ton of fun with it.
Very good move 👍
Obviously this makes more sense for certain games than others. Indie games like Bugsnax or online games that need a large, active player bases to survive like Destruction AllStars make the most sense, so I doubt we'll ever see a game like Horizon debut day one on PS+, but it's a start.
Obviously this makes more sense for certain games than others. Indie games like Bugsnax or online games that need a large, active player bases to survive like Destruction AllStars make the most sense, so I doubt we'll ever see a game like Horizon debut day one on PS+, but it's a start.
'A very interesting and innovative way to publish games.'
That's as close to a compliment as Xbox is going to get 😀
That's as close to a compliment as Xbox is going to get 😀
That would be so good if true. Fall Guys & Bugsnax would have been day one purchases without Plus giveaways. Maquette and Kena are my planned March purchase so one of those 'free' would be great. Oh and more Indie greats on PlayStation Now too please!
edit: no plans to buy Disco Elysium at launch but I'd happily have that and pay full price for the others though. 🙂
Deep down, I had always believed Sony would launch their AA titles Day One on PS+ as their way to pseudo-answer GamePass while still releasing AAA at MSRP.
They have been doing this way before gamepass though?
Nah not really. Almost all PS Plus titels have been older releases. Now they're talking about offering new game releases on PS Plus (such as Bugsnax and Desrruction All stars that came for "free" on day 1 )
They absolutely have done it a few times in the past but not consistently which it seems Sony has decided they will be doing going forward.
Glad they're doing this again. They used to do it pretty frequently in the early PS4 days. Rocket League was obviously a massive one.
It depends what you were looking for with PS+
But the quality of game given to PS+ was way way better in the 2nd half cycle of PS4
I just read the list I got of PS+ games given from Jan 17 to present and that's not even debatable
I think it would have too. Glad people are enjoying that game on PS.
I mean is it really? Bugsnax was okay but Destruction All Stars was terrible.
I'd be down for Kena though.
PS3 + PS Vita releases were something else, imho, compared to PS4 "support"
I dropped the PS+ subscription in the second half of the PS4 life cycle, because it was expiring, maybe I wasn't clear enough, sorry
I mean they will after a year or two, as long as they throw us some original smaller titles day one I'm good and don't expect more than that really. Again PS+ has been giving better games than Gold for a while now, especially new releases.
They have, but Ryan was also interviewed recently where he stated that their business model was to not add new games to subscription models and that he didn't think that would work for them (in comparison to Game Pass).
My guess is this is a way to downplay his comments a bit, but I don't think anything really changes for Sony. They will still selectively publish new games via PS+ while their tent pole games will sell on their own as they always have before coming to PS+ (possibly) at a later date.
I tried it for a bit after watching EZA stream it, but it was definitely not my jam.
So is this a middle ground to Gamepass? They aren't going to put their AAA games on PS plus day one (obviously) but are willing to do it with AA games they publish or are exclusive to their platform? I really do like what they have been doing with PS Plus over the last year or so, I hadn't been subscribed through the middle of last gen but they are really ramping up the quality of titles offered and got me to sub again.
They'd also more or less completely stopped doing it in recent years. On the PS4 we got games like Resogun and Rocket League day 1, but then it just kinda dried up.
In relation to the likes of God of War, Horizon etc. Huge budget first party titles. That is what wouldn't work.
Putting on things like Destruction All-stars which would have been completely DOA as a £50 release however does make a ton of sense.