Sony has officially announced that the games will be added to PS Now and PS Plus starting tomorrow. The former adds Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and Mortal Kombat 11, while the latter includes Persona 5 striker.
PS Now, Sony’s game streaming subscription service, is adding six new games tomorrow. You are:
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
- Unleashed anger
- Unrotated
- Super Time Force Ultra
- Kerbal Space Program: Enhanced Edition
Meanwhile, the increasingly anachronistic PS Plus is adding three new games for subscribers to download this month. That’s them:
- Persona 5 striker
- Dirt 5
- Deep rock galactic
All in all a fine selection with Deep rock galactic makes its PlayStation debut. But from month to month the offer from Sony feels more and more confusing as a) the two services now overlap a lot and b) neither seems to be an adequate answer to Microsoft’s Game Pass.
As someone late for PS4, I remember being hugely confused even then by these two different subscription services being offered for the same machine. This is something that has gotten even more confusing given the huge improvements PS Now made over the past year to now offer 1080p streaming, but more importantly that subscribers can download about half of the catalog.
Where PS Now was once only streamed and PS Plus gave a handful of downloadable “freebies” (no more from you if you give up your monthly tithe), the two are now intruding heavily on each other’s territory. Given that Now lets you download almost all of the PS2 and PS4 games available to your computer, it feels a lot more like Game Pass – until you find that only three games can be played locally as of 2021.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is adding new downloadable games to Game Pass every month, including an honestly weird number of releases from day one, which makes both of these Sony offerings feel extremely stingy. However, Now has many hundreds of games available that dwarf Microsoft’s catalog …
See! Confusing!
Rumors are widespread that Sony is finally reacting to Microsoft’s giveaway chicken, combining the two services into one sensibly and using the better-understood PS Plus brand as a title. That definitely seems like the right choice as Now has been offering a reasonably decent rival to Game Pass for almost six months and not enough people have noticed.
In the meantime, we have another month with Sony offering us a measly three new games to download, while Microsoft hands out more every time it sneezes.
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