When it launched in Asia, the PS Plus Premium didn’t deliver a decent experience for classic PlayStation 1 games, but Sony is announcing a big change that’s coming soon.
The new PS+ offers have been available in Europe for a few hours, including France, but everything is not ready yet. Far from it. While the experience of classic PS Plus Premium games is criticized, emulators are rated as very disappointing, despite the very good opportunities to improve the apps (including trophies). But even retro PS1 titles are mostly based on PAL versions and only run at 50Hz. Instead of the 60Hz allowed by the NTSC versions. Good news, Sony will fix this.
PS Plus Premium: PS1 games at 60Hz in Europe
PS1 games running at 50Hz via the PS Plus Premium will be history “soon”. Through its official Twitter accounts, PlayStation says it’s working on the rollout « NTSC options for most classic games offered in P plansS Plus Premium and Deluxe in Asia, Europe, India, South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand and the Middle East ».
Translation: A good number of PS Plus Premium PS1 games will eventually run at 60Hz and no longer at 50Hz. A solution that we hope will permanently solve the problem. Previously, Sony attempted a patch for “Improve rendering of PAL games”, without success. Well yes, but not the expected one. Retro games had become ugly due to significant ghosting (remnants of ghost images). Corresponding VGCof the titles tested, more than half had this lower frequency issue.
