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In an early-morning post on the PlayStation Blog, Sony officially revealed the rumored Project Spartacus, its competitor to Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. It doesn\u2019t actually have that name though. Instead, it\u2019s an expansion of Sony\u2019s existing PlayStation Plus online subscription service, which has been divvied up into three tiers.<\/p>\n

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All-new PlayStation Plus launches in June with three flexible membership options.<\/p>\n

First details: https:\/\/t.co\/2KXcEp7XWs pic.twitter.com\/jAU9Do3CfE<\/a><\/p>\n

&mdash; PlayStation (@PlayStation) March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Starting this June, Sony will start rolling out PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra, and PlayStation Plus Premium. The most basic of those tiers, Essential, is the same PlayStation Plus that subscribers know today. It costs $60 a year, offers some discounts, two free games a month, and all the other standard goodies players have come to expect. Extra, which costs $100 a year, combines those services with access to a catalog of up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games, which includes releases from first-party PlayStation developers.<\/p>\n

While a full list of games that players will get access to has not been revealed, Sony shared that\u00a0Death Stranding<\/em>,\u00a0God of War<\/em>,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man: Miles Morales<\/em>,\u00a0Mortal Kombat 11<\/em>, and\u00a0Returnal\u00a0<\/em>will all be included.<\/p>\n

PlayStation Plus Premium is where users will find a majority of Sony\u2019s new offerings. For $120 a year, users get the benefits of the previous two tiers along with an extra 340 PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP games, though they aren\u2019t all accessed the same way. PS3 games will only be available via cloud streaming while PS1, PS2, and PSP games will have both streaming and download options. Subscribers to this tier of PlayStation Plus will be able to stream games to their PS4, PS5, and PC.<\/p>\n

Notably, PlayStation Now subscribers will have their accounts folded into PlayStation Plus Premium when the service launches, without any initial price change.<\/p>\n

Stacked up against Xbox Game Pass \u2014 specifically its Ultimate tier \u2014 PlayStation Plus Premium isn\u2019t always going blow for blow. While a yearly membership to PlayStation Plus Platinum costs much less than a year of Game Pass Ultimate ($120 for Platinum and $166 for Ultimate), it doesn\u2019t give players easy access to nearly as much content. PS3 games being available exclusively through cloud streaming is a standout here, especially when games released on every other PlayStation console can either be streamed or downloaded.<\/p>\n

However, the biggest deal-breaker here is that first-party PlayStation games won\u2019t be released directly onto any of PlayStation Plus, a feature that Game Pass users enjoy often. According to an interview with PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, that won\u2019t be changing either. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Ryan said that releasing directly onto the subscription service would, in fact, hurt the platform\u2019s first-party games. \u201cWe feel like we are in a good virtuous cycle with the studios where the investment delivers success, which enables yet more investment, which delivers yet more success,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cWe like that cycle and we think our gamers like that cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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