Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint so the all-new playstation plus has finally launched worldwide
with the uk and europe getting it yesterday and with this new ps plus we now have hundreds of
new games including ps1, 2, 3, 4, ps5 and psp. Well today we're going to take a look at the
three new tiers see what the main differences are what games we actually get and ultimately which is
the best option to go for right now so if you're not sure whether you need to go for the essential
extra or premium plan hopefully today's video will help you decide and if you haven't already
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previously ps plus was a one tier system which you subscribe to to play online multiplayer get
discounts to games and download those monthly games and then if you wanted to you could
then subscribe to ps now separately well they've kind of combined these two services into one but
they've split them out into three different tiers we've got premium extra and essential each comes
with different pricing and different options which one you think is best depends entirely if you see
value in the different benefits and remember that everything that you see in the essential plan is
included in the higher tiers as well and then everything in extra is also included in premium
now i'm in the uk so the pricing is obviously in pounds but here are the different costs if you
want to pay monthly it comes in at 13 pounds 49 for premium 10 pounds 99 for extra and 6.99 for
essential if you want to pay every three months instead it comes in slightly cheaper and you're
saving around 20 to 30 pence per month and finally the yearly subscription is where you
actually save the most so the premium works out at eight pounds 34 per month instead of 13.49 extra
works out at seven pounds instead of 10.99 and essential comes in at four pounds 17 instead of
6.99 but you are obviously paying these annually not every month now i had actually previously
stacked some ps now and ps plus subscriptions from before so with the new tier system they've
actually automatically converted me onto the premium plan and jumping into the subscriptions
area in settings you can see here now that i've got the premium until august the 1st 2025. so
it's great to see that they have automatically converted me onto the premium plan but that's
definitely something worth checking out in your own plan if you were a previous subscriber
okay let's take a quick look around the new ps plus menu and see what we get
so we've got buttons off to the game catalog the classic games game trials and a few others and
then all of the benefits are shown underneath which we will go over in a minute then under
this we've got various other things like the classic games are listed we've got the game
trials we've got must play games as well as some recommendations for other games you should play
so as you scroll around here you can see all of the different games available and the different
categories as well but if we tab across the top here you can actually go through the benefits of
playstation plus all of these we will obviously cover in today's video and then next you've got
the collections tab now these are all the games available split out into different genres and
platforms and this is definitely the best way to navigate through all of the available
games now there is a view all games area but it's a huge list of games to scroll through
okay so that's the navigation and kind of what the menu looks like but let's dive straight into
the different plans that are available so first up we got the essential plan which is basically
a replacement of the ps plus that we had before we get the monthly games online multiplayer the
playstation plus collection discounts and cloud storage so if you were a ps plus subscriber before
this is exactly what you're used to already now the playstation plus collection includes some of
the best playstation 4 games that there are games like crash bandicoot god of war final fantasy
and the last of us in total there are 19 games included with this plan and i'll tell you what if
you've not played god of war yet definitely give this one a go now the essential plan does also
come with cloud storage that's 100 gigabytes for ps4 and 100 gigabytes for ps5 games and this lets
you back up your game data to the cloud in case you need it again in the future and we also get
those monthly games so whether the games are worth downloading varies from month to month but it's
always worth adding them to your library just in case and then the essential plan also comes with
exclusive discounts to certain games or add-ons so if there are some games you were thinking of
buying and there's a discount available signing up to the essential plan will make the most sense so
as you can tell the essential plan really is no different to the playstation plus that we've had
before but as the next two plans is where you will see the differences okay so then there's
the extra plan so this gets you everything that we saw in the essential plan but it also
unlocks the game catalog and this is where we see hundreds of playstation 4 and playstation 5
games added how it works is as long as you have an active subscription you can download and play any
of these games while you're on the extra or the premium plan some of these games are well worth
the money for the sub games like spider-man miles morales assassins creed demon souls and ghost of
sashima i mean as i scroll through this list now you can see just how many we get some of
these are actually part of the playstation plus collection that you get in the essential tier
so games like days gone and god of war well you would have got those anyway but otherwise all
of these are included now i'm actually seeing a few duplicates here as well so maybe 10 or so are
duplicates now i'll just keep scrolling through this list you can see all of the games that are
available on the extra plan now there are some games in here that i've never played before in
fact some of these games i've never even heard of so i will likely download these to give them a go
okay so in total i make it 367 games or included in the game catalog now that might be out by 10 or
20 or so and there are definitely a few duplicates as well as some of the ps collection games but
this definitely gives you an idea at least of the number of games and the games included within this
catalog now when you're ready to download any of these games you just head over to the game
page and you can see a download button with a ps symbol next to it and that's it we've now got this
game at no extra cost so this game catalog that we've just gone through is literally the one and
only feature that sets the extra plan apart from the essential plan but for the extra that you're
paying for you are getting hundreds of ps4 and ps5 games all you need to do is download what
maybe two or three of these and it's pretty much paid for itself next up we've got the premium plan
now this is the top tier option which includes everything that we've seen so far in today's
video plus these added benefits so we've got the classic catalog we've got the game trials as well
as cloud streaming whether these three features are worth it to you i guess comes down to the
value of the games but the number one feature for most is probably going to be the classic library
this unlocks hundreds of ps1 ps2 and psp games now i'm scrolling through the list now and you're able
to see all of the games included there are a few old ones here that i'll remember playing back on
the ps1 as well as the ps2 so here's toy story 2 for example and these games can then be downloaded
as you would expect to do with any previous game and you can play them as long as you have
an active sub so i was actually expecting far more games to be included but i guess it is early days
i make the total count of these classic ps1 ps2 and psp games to be just 37 games hopefully over
the coming months we'll see more and more games added i would like to see the original driver for
playstation 1 and maybe even the getaway from the playstation 2. so are there any ps1 or ps2 games
that you would definitely like to see added then we have some remasters games like the last of us
but that is included in the collection anyway we've also got borderlands in here we've got
mafia heavy rain and a few more i mean the total remasters coming in at 49 games and then we have
the playstation 3 games and this is by far the largest catalogue of games in the entire lineup
there are literally hundreds of games in here i see batman cars god of war and a few lego games
as well well in total i make the playstation 5 catalogue of games 135. that is quite a lot of
games here for a classic catalogue but i guess it depends if there are any games in here that
you would actually like to play so in total if we look at the entire library of classic games i make
it 221 games again this is only included in the premium plans you will not get this in the other
two i think there are definitely some great games in here but i would like to see more added over
the coming months now another feature included in the premium plan is the cloud streaming and
this lets you stream hundreds of games without the need to download them first there are a few
ps4 games in here but most of them are ps3 games and that's because you actually don't
download those anyway you can only stream them all you need to do is browse through the library
choose the game and just press stream depending on the game it will only take you a minute or
two to get ready and then that's it we're in and we're playing the game without needing to wait
for the download i've tested a few games over the last 24 hours and quality looks okay i have
noticed a few glitches as i'm playing but i'm not sure if that's the game or the streaming service
but this actually looks really good considering i've not needed to download the entire game first
let me try to stream another game quickly let's try cars 2. i know my kids will love this and i'll
tell you what for a classic ps2 game this plays really well and again this is being streamed so
first impressions on the cloud streaming for these games well it works well i think the flexibility
of being able to play some of the old classic games without having to download them first is
really useful the quality of the games won't be as good as downloading them first i would imagine but
for some games does it really matter another huge advantage of cloud streaming is the fact that it
won't take up any storage on the console it's not a huge problem for me right now as i'm actually
using a four terabyte ssd but for most once you've downloaded what 10 or 15 games you've probably
maxed it out oh and if you wondered what happens to the games once you've streamed them well they
do show up on your dashboard you can then choose to remove from home which essentially deletes the
game from the dashboard and they will also show up in your game library collection so any of the
games you've previously bought or downloaded they will show up here but if you don't want those ps3
or those streamed games to show here just hit the menu icon and hit hide another feature included
with the premium plan are the trials or the game demos it's a bit strange that this is a benefit
of a paid for plan but let's stick with it for a second so if you wanted to try a game before you
buy it well you can actually download and play a time limited trial let's take farming simulator
22. i know that's a game that you're probably all looking forward to playing so this game will give
us a three hour trial if we download it now but each game comes with its own time limit
so cyberpunk comes with five hours and that's probably long enough to know whether it's right
for you horizon has a five hour trial too and then you've got biomutant which is probably the only
game i actually want to try out but this one only comes with a two hour trial at the moment there
aren't that many trials to download in fact there are only 15 right now we'll obviously see more and
more added as new games come out but today is very very limited i think these trials are a great idea
i'm not disputing that at all but locking them behind the premium tier is just really odd to
me this should definitely be a feature that's included in the essential tier no one's gonna
buy the premium just to play these demos and yeah you're right we've had some resistance
okay so we've looked at all three tiers the different games we get available and the different
benefits but here are my final thoughts on which one i think is the best to buy right now so first
up if you've only ever used ps plus without the ps now subscription you will automatically move on to
the essential plan you will then see no difference in the service that you've already used over the
last few years it is a great entry level plan with those ps plus collection games and those monthly
games as well but if you want more from it and you want to play some awesome ps4 and ps5 games like
spider-man demon souls and other relatively new games the extra plan is hard to pass on
it's not a lot more than the essential plan but you are getting hundreds of ps4 and ps5
games and as i said before just download two or three and it's pretty much paid for itself
on paper the premium plan does have three extra benefits but i'm going to ignore the game trials
for now as i don't really see that as a selling point so that leaves us with the classic games
and the cloud streaming so the 200 or so ps1 ps2 and ps3 games are awesome and if there are a few
classics in here that you definitely want to play this is the only way to do it but if you scroll
through the list and you've only seen a couple of games you want to play you'll probably want to
give it a miss for now and then there's the cloud streaming which is an awesome feature that could
save you time if you don't want to download the games that are available this way for me and my
slow internet speed this could be a huge advantage for me and ultimately it comes down to just one
thing are there enough games in the plan to justify the price i'd look through the full
list again and see what games you actually want to play but for me if i wasn't automatically migrated
onto the premium tier i would probably have just opted for the extra plan i think that's the sweet
spot right now until we see more classic games and more trials added and what about you out of
the three tiers we've got now the essential the extra and the premium which one do you think is
the best one or the one that you will go for well i hope you enjoyed the video today and it
was useful why don't you drop a ps plus in the comments and i will give you a thumbs up for
staying right to the end and if you did enjoy today's video check out my ps5 console covers
video next as it's where i unbox the three new playstation 5 plates that we saw a couple of weeks
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