PlayStation™️Plus

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PlayStation Plus (PS Plus) is a paid PlayStation Network subscription service that provides users with access to premium features. These extras include early access to upcoming games, regular PlayStation Store discount, occasional discount on a variety of non-PlayStation related products, and the ability to have software updates download automatically to the console. As part of the subscription, members are given new PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and PlayStation 5 games every month and 100 GB of internet storage space for saved game files. PlayStation online multiplayer requires a subscription to PlayStation Plus, free-to-play games excluded. Users may choose a monthly, quarterly, or annual subscription.

### Monthly games

Membership includes access to a rolling selection of games (with the selection varying based on PlayStation Store region). New titles are announced every month, to be downloaded immediately or added to a library for later access, before being replaced by a new selection of games. Members can keep all games in their library as long as they remain a member of PlayStation Plus. If their membership lapses, these games will become inaccessible. Once membership is renewed, the games will become unlocked again. In late June 2020, it was announced that PS Plus will expand its capacity of accessible games from two to three for its 10th anniversary.

### PlayStation Plus Collection

In September 2020, Sony announced during its next-generation showcase that PlayStation Plus members who purchase a PlayStation 5 will also get access to a collection of "generation defining" games from the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation Plus collection includes:

* *Battlefield 1*
* *Bloodborne*
* *Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition*
* *Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy*
* *Detroit: Become Human*
* *Days Gone*
* *Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition*
* *God of War*
* *Infamous Second Son*
* *The Last Guardian*
* *The Last of Us Remastered*
* *Monster Hunter: World*
* *Persona 5*(available until 5/11/2022)
* *Ratchet & Clank*
* *Resident Evil 7: Biohazard*
* *Uncharted 4: A Thief's End*
* *Until Dawn*

### 2022 revamp

On December 3, 2021, Bloomberg reported that Sony was working on a new subscription service codenamed "Spartacus" that would be a merger of the company’s current services, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now, with the company reportedly set to keep the Plus branding. The service was reported as including three tiers, the first including all the benefits of PlayStation Plus, the second expanding upon the first by including a catalog of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 titles, and the third expanding upon the first two by including demos as well as a catalog of games from the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable. Bloomberg claimed the service would launch within the Spring of 2022 and compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service.

The revamped PlayStation Plus service with a three-tier subscription model was officially confirmed by Sony in March 2022 as launching in June 2022. The existing service will become PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra will additionally give the user access up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games as downloadable and streamable titles, and PlayStation Plus Premium will further add access to streaming of up to 340 games from the PlayStation, PS2, PS3, and PSP and download of all but the PS3 games. For markets without PS Now, Sony will offer an alternate version of Premium called PlayStation Plus Deluxe that includes the benefits of Premium at a discounted rate without cloud streaming.