What Games Are Included In PlayStation Plus Extra & Premium At Launch
Sony is bringing a major overhaul to PlayStation Plus later this year to offer more content on various subscription tiers, including a catalog of downloadable games for those who buy into the Extra and Premium price points. The new model is expected to completely subsume current PS+ by the end of June 2022, and will essentially combine it with PlayStation Now, a move that sees Sony adopting a more direct rival to Microsoft's Game Pass. Although the new PS+ won't have day one first-party exclusive releases, the Extra and Premium tiers will apparently offer up to more than 700 games from all corners of the PlayStation console lineage.
The current model of PlayStation Plus - which offers access to online multiplayer, free titles every month, special discounts, and cloud storage - will remain intact with no change in price as PlayStation Plus Essential, the new base tier. The next step up is PS+ Extra, which adds a catalog PS4 and PS5 games available for download, in addition to the benefits included in Essential. The priciest option, PS+ Premium, is essentially where the PlayStation Now service is being integrated, with games from all five PlayStation home consoles and the PSP available to download or stream.
The full list of games has not yet been revealed, but will certainly come sometime before PlayStation Plus' multiple tiers launch in June. For now, the PlayStation Blog announcement has only teased a handful of the titles that will be included when the Extra and Premium tiers become available: Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11, and Returnal. There's a noticeable emphasis on PlayStation exclusives, but Mortal Kombat's inclusion points to what subscribers might expect out of third-party offerings.
The promise of PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium getting "up to 400 of the most enjoyable PS4 and PS5 games" is rather lofty, and that doesn't even include Premium's "340 additional games" from older hardware. A major selling point will likely be more exclusive titles, and it seems reasonable to assume the PS4 games included in the PlayStation Plus Collection currently might be brought over to the new tiers. In addition to God of War, this would be Bloodborne, Days Gone, inFamous: Second Son, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us Remastered, Ratchet & Clank (2016), and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Detroit: Become Human and Until Dawn are also console exclusives currently offered in the PS+ Collection, but aren't developed by a member of the PlayStation Studios collective.
Returnal's inclusion is a very good sign for PS5 owners, who may have a chance to get more current-gen exclusives through PS+. Demon's Souls' 2020 remake, Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Death Stranding Director's Cut, and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection would all be welcome additions. On the flip side, players shouldn't hold out hope for any IP that Microsoft has recently acquired, even though Call of Duty will never be Xbox exclusive. Even old Call of Duty, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Diablo games likely won't come to PlayStation Plus with its upcoming tiers, since all those properties make Game Pass enticing.