Sony has finally launched its ambitious PlayStation Plus revamp in North America, giving more gamers the chance to check out the new subscription tiers and everything they have to offer. For those who may not have been following along, Sony has made some big changes to PlayStation Plus in an effort to compete more directly with Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service. The jury is still out on whether Sony's efforts will be successful or not, but the revamp has already suffered a big blow.
The new PS Plus tiers give PlayStation 4 and 5 gamers three options to choose from: PS Plus Essential, PS Plus Extra, and PS Plus Premium. PS Plus Essential is vanilla PS Plus, giving players access to monthly free games, various discounts on the PlayStation Store, and online multiplayer. PS Plus Extra is the next step up, essentially combining the existing PlayStation Now service with PS Plus and adding some newer, higher profile games into the mix. PS Plus Premium is the priciest tier, and it gives users access to retro games, some of which come with enhancements to improve the experience for modern gamers.
It seems that combining PlayStation Now with PS Plus for the PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers has caused an exodus of games that were previously available to play through PlayStation Now. A list was compiled by PSN Profiles user starvar of over 200 games that are on the way out.
PS Plus/PlayStation Now Games Leaving
- 100ft Robot Golf
- A Bastard’s Tale
- A Boy and His Blob
- Act It Out!
- Active Soccer 2 DX
- Adam’s Venture: Origins
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
- Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam Ultimate
- Alchemic Jousts
- Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space
- Anodyne
- Another World
- APB Reloaded
- ArcaniA – The Complete Tale
- Asdivine Hearts
- Assault Suit Leynos
- Assetto Corsa
- Azkend 2: The World Beneath
- Back to Bed
- Backgammon Blitz
- Bard’s Gold
- Baseball Riot
- Batman Arkham City (PS3)
- Batman Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year Edition (PS3)
- Battalion Commander
- Battle Worlds Kronos
- Battlefield 4 (PS3)
- Battlefield Hardline (PS3)
- Ben 10
- Bentley’s Hackpack
- Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
- Blazblue: Central Fiction
- Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma
- Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma EXTEND
- Blazblue: Continuum Shift
- Blazblue: Continuum Shift EXTEND
- Blazerush
- Blood Bowl 2
- Bokosuka Wars 2
- Bombing Busters
- Borderlands (PS3)
- Braid
- Brick Breaker
- Bridge Constructor
- Broken Age
- Brut@l
- Castle Invasion
- CastleStorm – Definitive Edition
- Catherine
- Choplifter HD
- Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
- Costume Quest 2
- Counterspy
- Crimsonland
- Dark Arcana
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered
- de blob 2
- Dead Island
- Dead Island Retro Revenge!
- Dead Island Riptide
- Dead Space 3
- Dead to Rights Retribution
- Deathspank The Baconing
- Desert Child
- Destroy All Humans! 2 (2006)
- DiRT 4
- DiRT Rally
- Dishonored (PS3)
- Doki-Doki Universe (PS4)
- Don Bradman Cricket 14
- DUCATI – 90th Anniversary
- Escape Plan (PS4)
- Eternal Sonata
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Everyday Shooter
- Extreme Exorcism
- F1 2020
- Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force
- Farming Simulator (PS3)
- Farming Simulator 19
- Fat Princess Adventures
- Firefighters The Simulation
- flow (PS3)
- Flower (PS3)
- Forestry 2017
- Gal*Gun: Double Peace
- Galaga Legions DX
- Gem Smashers
- Go! Puzzle
- God Eater 2: Rage Burst
- God Eater: Resurrection
- God of War Origins Collection: Chains of Olympus
- God of War Origins Collection: Ghost of Sparta
- Gravity Crash
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Guacamelee! PS Now Bundle
- Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Handball 16
- Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition
- Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
- Heavenly Sword
- Hohokum
- Hunter’s Trophy 2 Australia
- In Space We Brawl
- Industry Giant 2
- Inside My Radio
- Ironcast
- Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad
- Journey (PS3)
- Katamari Forever
- Killzone
- Killzone 2
- Killzone 3
- King Oddball (PS4)
- Legend of Kay Anniversary (PS4)
- LEGO Harry Potter Year 1-4 (PS3)
- LEGO Harry Potter Year 5-7 (PS3)
- Lemmings
- Limbo
- Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut
- Lords of the Fallen
- Lost Sea
- Lumines Supernova
- Machinarium (PS4)
- Mafia 2 (PS3)
- Mafia 3 (PS4)
- Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
- Mantis Burn Racing
- Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (PS3)
- Mastercube
- Miko Gakkou Monogatari: Kaede Episode
- Minutes
- Mirror’s Edge (PS3)
- Monster Energy Supercross
- Monster Jam Steel Titans
- Mordheim City of the Damned
- Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (PS3)
- Moto Racer 4
- MotoGP 13
- Motorcycle Club (PS4)
- MXGP3
- Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics
- Need for Speed Rivals (PS3)
- Neon Chrome
- Nitroplus Blasterz (PS3)
- Obliteracers
- Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath HD
- OlliOlli
- OlliOlli 2
- One Upon Light
- Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ (PS3)
- Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
- Painkiller Hell and Damnation
- Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic
- Pixeljunk Monsters
- Pixeljunk Nom Nom Galaxy
- Pixeljunk Shooter (PS3)
- Pixeljunk Shooter 2 (PS3)
- Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate
- Pixeljunk SideScroller
- Plague Road
- Professional Farmer 2017
- Project Cars 2
- Real Farm
- Red Faction Guerrilla (PS3)
- Reus
- Ride 3
- Risen 3 Enhanced
- Rive
- Rugby 15
- Rugby World Cup 2015
- Saints Row The Third: The Full Package (PS3)
- Saints Row IV (PS3)
- Saints Row IV Re-elected
- Saints Row Gat Out of Hell
- Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo
- Shadow of the Colossus (PS3)
- Siegecraft Commander
- Skyscrappers
- Slay the Spire
- Slime-san Superslime Edition
- Sly Cooper Thieves in Time
- Sniper Ghost Warrior
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 2
- Soul Axiom
- Sound Shapes (PS4)
- Sparkle 2
- Spec Ops The Line
- Spelunky (PS3)
- Square Heroes
- Starhawk
- Stick It to the Man
- Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut
- Styx Shards of Darkness
- Super Dungeon Bros
- Super Mega Baseball
- Super Stacker Party
- Super Stardust Ultra
- Super Time Force Ultra
- Super Toy Cars
- Syberia 2
- Table Top Racing World Tour
- Tachyon Project
- Tales of Zestiria (PS4)
- Tekken 7
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Tennis in the Face
- Tetraminos
- The Bug Butcher
- The Deer God
- The Keeper of 4 Elements
- The Last of Us (PS3)
- The Last of Us: Left Behind (PS3)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (PS3)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PS3)
- The LEGO Movie Video Game (PS3)
- The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor
- The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
- The Sly Collection
- The Spectrum Retreat
- The Treasures of Montezuma 4
- The Unfinished Swan (PS4)
- The Wolf Among Us (PS3)
- Tiny Brains
- Titan Quest
- Torment
- Touhou Scarlet Curiosity
- Trine (PS3)
- Ultra Street Fighter IV (PS4)
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
- Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late
- Vegas Party
- Velocity 2X
- Wasteland 2
- Way of the Samurai 3
- Way of the Samurai 4
- Wet
- Whispering Willows
- Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
- World to the West
- Wuppo
- Ziggurat
- Zombie Vikings
- Zotrix
It's also been confirmed that some of the other games included in the PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers will be leaving within the next few months. Namely, Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare are expected to be removed on September 20. That's disappointing news for Red Dead Redemption fans, but at least there's plenty of time to play those games before they're removed.
It's expected that games will be cycled in and out of availability when it comes to the PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium tiers, but it may still be a shock for so many games to be removed all at once. The good news is that the PS Plus revamp has also seen the addition of many games that weren't available on the service previously, ranging from PS1 classics like Resident Evil: Director's Cut to newer releases like Housemarque's Returnal, so there should be no shortage of games for subscribers to play.
Source: PSN Profiles (via PlayStation Lifestyle)