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Are people being unfairly negative towards the new PlayStation Plus Tiers?



Today saw the launch of the new PlayStation Plus tiers in Australia with the service being rolled out across the world over the last week. Already, there's been a lot of negativity about it with people comparing it to Game Pass in its current state, which I think is an unfair comparison to make for a few reasons....


Here are the new PlayStation Plus Tiers:


PlayStation Plus Deluxe costs $154.95 per year compared to Game pass ultimate being approximately $190 a year.


Now one of the complaints I've heard from people is the fact that there are tiers on PS Plus where as Game pass only has 1 level so its easy.... Well, aside from that not being even remotely true with Xbox having Xbox Live, Xbox Game pass for Console, Xbox Game pass for PC and Xbox Game pass Ultimate. I'd say that the tiers on the PlayStation Plus service are much more consumer friendly... For example, if you just want to play online without the benefits of the game catalogues etc; then you can pay just $79.95 a year for the essential tier instead of the approximately $120 a year through Xbox who have Xbox Live only subscriptions but are about the same price as Game Pass itself which includes Xbox live.


However my biggest gripe with all the complainers is that they are comparing PS Plus on launch to a Game pass that is over 5 years old. Meaning they have had 5 years of adding games and content to get it to its current state and in fact on launch, Game pass looked very, very different. Here's a full list of launch games for Xbox Game Pass back in 2017:


Game Pass Launch Titles:

#IDARB A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Age of Booty Banjo Kazooie: N n B Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie BC - Rearmed 2 BioShock BioShock 2 BioShock Infinite Blood Bowl 2 Borderlands Bound by Flame Braid Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons CAPCOM ARCADE CABINET CastleStorm Comic Jumper Comix Zone D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die de Blob 2 Defense Grid Defense Grid 2 DIG DUG DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition Double Dragon Neon Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Fable III Farming Simulator 15 Final Fight: DblImpact FLOCK! Galaga Legions DX Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Gears of War: Ultimate Edition GRID 2 Halo 5: Guardians Halo: Spartan Assault Hexic 2 Iron Brigade Jetpac Refuelled Joe Danger 2: The Movie Joe Danger Special Edition Joy Ride Turbo Kameo Knight Squad KOF98UM Layers of Fear LEGO Batman Lumo Mad Max MASSIVE CHALICE Max: The Curse of Brotherhood Mega Mana: Legacy Collection Metal Slug 3 Monday Night Combat Ms. Splosion Mana MX vs ATV Reflex N+ NBA 2K16 NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM OF: Dragon Rising OlliOlli PAC-MAN CE DX+ PAC-MAN MUSEUM PAYDAY 2: CRIMEWAVE EDITION Perfect Dark Zero Pumped BMX + Resident Evil 0 Sacred 3 Saints Row IV: Re-Elected Sam&Max Beyond Time... Sam&Max Save the World Samurai Shodown II ScreamRide Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Shantae and the Pirate's Curse SOULCALIBUR SOULCALIBUR II HD Spelunky Splosion Man Stacking Strider Sunset Overdrive Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings Super Time Force TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Terraria The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 The Golf Club The Maw The Swapper Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers: Cold War Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: TIP WWE 2K16 XCOM: Enemy Within


Hardly a reflection of Game pass 5 years on is it? Now compare that to the list of games you get with PlayStation's Extra Tier, which offers a catalogue of over 400 PS4 and PS5 games


PS5 Games Available on launch:

  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

  • Assetto Corsa Competizione

  • Balan Wonderworld

  • Control: Ultimate Edition

  • Cris Tales

  • Death Stranding: Director’s Cut

  • Demon’s Souls

  • Destruction AllStars

  • Evil Genius 2 World Domination

  • Foreclosed

  • Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut

  • Ghostrunner

  • Greedfall

  • Human Fall Flat

  • I Am Dead

  • Kona

  • Last Stop

  • Lawn Mowing Simulator

  • Maneater

  • Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

  • Monster Truck Championship

  • Mortal Kombat 11

  • MXGP 2021

  • NBA 2K22

  • Observer: System Redux

  • Override 2: Super Mech League

  • Returnal

  • RIDE 4

  • Saints Row: The Third Remastered

  • Tennis World Tour 2

  • The Artful Escape

  • Tour de France 2021

  • Warhammer: Chaosbane – Slayer Edition

  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood

  • WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship

  • Wreckfest

  • Wytchwood

PS4 Games Available on launch:

  • Absolver

  • Abzu

  • Ace of Seafood

  • Adr1ft

  • Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders

  • Age of Wonders: Planetfall

  • Agents of Mayhem

  • Alienation

  • Akiba’s Beat

  • AO Tennis 2

  • Aragami

  • Ash of Gods Redemption

  • Ashen

  • Astebreed

  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

  • Assetto Corsa Competizione

  • Avicii Invector

  • Back to Bed

  • Bad North

  • Balan Wonderworld

  • Batman: Arkham Knight

  • Battle Chasers: Nightwar

  • Bee Simulator

  • Black Mirror

  • Blasphemous

  • Bloodborne

  • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • Bomber Crew

  • Bound

  • Bound by Flame

  • Brawlout

  • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

  • Caladrius Blaze

  • Call of Cthulhu

  • Carmageddon: Max Damage

  • Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers

  • Car Mechanic Simulator

  • Celeste

  • Chess Ultra

  • Chicken Police

  • Child of Light

  • Children of Morta

  • Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon EVERY BUDDY!

  • Chronos: Before the Ashes

  • Cities: Skylines

  • Clouds & Sheep 2

  • Concrete Genie: Digital Deluxe Edition

  • ConnecTank

  • Control: Ultimate Edition

  • Cris Tales

  • Croixleur Sigma

  • Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo HD Edition

  • Danger Zone

  • Dangerous Golf

  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

  • Dark Rose Valkyrie

  • Darksiders Genesis

  • Darksiders III

  • Days Gone

  • DCL – The Game

  • Dead Cells

  • Dead or Alive 5 Last Round

  • Dead end re;Quest

  • Death end re;Quest2

  • Death Squared

  • Death Stranding

  • Defense Grid 2

  • Deliver Us the Moon

  • Descenders

  • Desperados III

  • Detroit: Become Human

  • Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories

  • Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

  • DOOM

  • Dragon Star Varnir

  • Dreamfall Chapters

  • Dungeons 2

  • Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires

  • Eagle Flight

  • Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair

  • Electronic Super Joy

  • El Hijo – A Wild West Tale

  • Elex

  • Embr

  • Empire of Sin

  • Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek

  • Enter The Gungeon

  • Entwined

  • Everspace

  • Everybody’s Golf

  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination

  • Fade to Silence

  • Fallout 4

  • Fallout 76

  • Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Classic Edition

  • Far Cry 3: Classic Edition

  • Far Cry 4

  • FIA European Truck Racing Championship

  • FIGHTING EX LAYER – Standard Version

  • Final Fantasy IX

  • Final Fantasy VII

  • Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

  • Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster

  • Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age

  • Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition

  • Fire Pro Wrestling World

  • Flatout 4: Total Insanity

  • Fluster Cluck

  • Foreclosed

  • Friday the 13th: The Game

  • Frostpunk Console Edition

  • Gabbuchi

  • Gal Gunvolt Burst

  • Get Even

  • Ghost of a Tale

  • Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut

  • Ghostrunner

  • Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams – Director’s Cut

  • God of War

  • Gods Will Fall

  • Golf with Your Friends

  • Goosebumps: The Game

  • Grand Ages: Medieval

  • Graveyard Keeper

  • Gravity Rush 2

  • Greedfall

  • GRIP Combat Racing

  • Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger IX

  • Harvest Moon Light of Hope Special Edition

  • Harvest Moon Mad Dash

  • Harvest Moon One World

  • Hello Neighbour

  • Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition

  • Homefront: The Revolution

  • Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

  • Hotline Miami

  • Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

  • Hotshot Racing

  • How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition

  • How To Survive 2

  • Hue

  • Human Fall Flat

  • I Am Bread

  • I Am Dead

  • Indivisible

  • Infamous Second Son

  • Infamous First Light

  • Infinite Minigolf

  • Injustice 2

  • Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf: Console Edition

  • John Wick Hex

  • JumpJet Rex

  • Killzone Shadow Fall

  • Killzone: Shadow Fall Intercept

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance

  • Kingdom Two Crowns

  • Kingdom New Lands

  • Knack

  • Kona

  • Last Day of June

  • Last Stop

  • Lawn Mowing Simulator

  • Left Alive: Day One Edition

  • Legendary Fishing

  • Legends of Ethernal

  • LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

  • Leo’s Fortune

  • LittleBigPlanet3

  • Little Big Workshop

  • Little Nightmares

  • Lost Words: Beyond The Page

  • Mafia III: Definitive Edition

  • Magicka 2

  • Mahjong

  • Malicious Fallen

  • Maneater

  • Marvel Puzzle Quest

  • Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales

  • Masters of Anima

  • Matterfall

  • MediEvil

  • Megadimension Neptunia VII

  • Mighty No. 9

  • Minit

  • Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae

  • Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

  • Monster Jam Steel Titans 2

  • Monster Truck Championship

  • Moonlighter

  • Mortal Kombat 11

  • Moving Out

  • Mudrunner

  • MTX vs ATV All Out

  • MXGP 2021

  • My Friend Pedro

  • My Time at Portia

  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

  • NASCAR Heat 5

  • NBA 2K Playgrounds 2

  • NBA 2K22

  • Necromunda: Underhive Wars

  • Nidhogg

  • Nidhogg 2

  • Nights of Azure

  • Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon

  • Nioh

  • No Straight Roads

  • Observation

  • Observer System Redux

  • Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty

  • Omega Quintet

  • Outer Wilds

  • Overcooked! 2

  • Overpass

  • Override 2: Super Mech League

  • Party Hard

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Definitive Edition

  • Payday 2: Crimewave Edition

  • PGA Tour 2K21

  • Pile Up! Box by Box

  • Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition

  • Pixel Piracy

  • Portal Knights

  • Prison Architect

  • Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid

  • Prey

  • Pure Farming 2018

  • Pure Hold’em World Poker Championship

  • Pure Pool

  • Rad Rodgers

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Redeemer – Enhanced Edition

  • Reel Fishing: Pro Series

  • Rebel Galaxy

  • Relicta

  • Resogun

  • Rez Infinite

  • RIDE 4

  • Risk: Urban Assault

  • Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break

  • Rogue Stormers

  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII

  • R-Type Final 2

  • Saints Row: The Third Remastered

  • Seasons After Fall

  • Secret Neighbour

  • Shadow of the Beast

  • Shadow of the Colossus

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Shadow Warrior 3

  • Shenmue 3

  • Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom

  • Sniper Elite 4

  • SOMA

  • Soulcalibur VI

  • South Park: The Fractured But Whole

  • South Park: The Stick of Truth

  • Space Crew: Leegendary Edition

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing – Enhanced Edition

  • Space Hulk: Tactics

  • Space Junkies

  • Sparkle Unleashed

  • Spitlings

  • Star Ocean First Departure R

  • Star Trek: Bridge Crew

  • Starlink: Battle For Atlas

  • Steep

  • Stellaris: Console Edition

  • Stranded Deep

  • Sundered: Eldritch Edition

  • Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition

  • Surviving Mars

  • Tearaway Unfolded

  • Tennis World Tour 2

  • Terraria

  • Tetris Effect: Connected

  • The Artful Escape

  • The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

  • The Caligula Effect: Overdose

  • The Council – The Complete Season

  • The Crew

  • The Crew 2

  • The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

  • The Dark Pictures: Little Hope

  • The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan

  • The Fisherman – Fishing Planet

  • The Last Guardian

  • The Last Tinker: City of Colors

  • The Lego Movie Videogame

  • The Long Dark

  • The Messenger

  • The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

  • The Surge

  • The Surge 2

  • The Technomancer

  • The Turing Test

  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

  • The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition

  • The Wonderful 101: Remastered

  • This is the Police

  • This is the Police 2

  • This War of Mine: The Little Ones

  • Thomas Was Alone

  • Through The Darkest of Times

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division

  • TorqueL

  • Totally Reliable Delivery Service

  • Toukiden 2

  • Tour de France 2021

  • Towerfall Ascension

  • Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt

  • Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet

  • Tricky Towers

  • Tropico 5

  • Trackmania Turbo

  • Transference

  • Trials Fusion

  • Trials Of The Blood Dragon

  • Trials Rising

  • Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

  • TRON RUN/r

  • TT Isle of Man: Ride of the Edge 2

  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

  • Until Dawn

  • Unturned

  • Valiant Hearts: The Great War

  • Vampyr

  • Velocibox

  • Victor Vran Overkill Edition

  • Vikings – Wolves of Midgard

  • Virginia

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr

  • Warhammer: Chaosbane

  • Warhammer Vermintide 2

  • Warriors All-Stars

  • Watch Dogs

  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood

  • Werewolves Within

  • Wild Guns Reloaded

  • Windbound

  • World of Final Fantasy

  • Whispering Willows

  • Wolfenstein: The New Order

  • WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship

  • Wreckfest

  • Wytchwood

  • XCOM 2

  • Y School Heroes: Bustlin’ School life

  • Yet Another Zombie Defense

  • Ys VIII: Lacrimose of DANA

  • Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

  • ZOMBI

  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War


Comparatively, at launch PlayStation Plus offers significantly more value than Game pass did when it launched in 2017. This isn't me telling you that either service is better than the other. Its simply a comparison and suggestion that rather than comparing a day 1 service to a 5 year old one that we give PlayStation Plus a little time to find its feet and see what else is added over the next 12 months before judging it. There's no doubt that both services have something to offer and both are great value to the right person. I personally have PS Plus Deluxe and Xbox Game pass Ultimate and find excellent value in both as if even 2 games a year that I'd usually pay anywhere from $79 - $120 each come to each service, means I come out on top.


You make up your own mind...

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