Yesterday Sony showed off the “all-new” PlayStation Plus game line-up, and it contains less than ever for PC players. The post on the PlayStation blog makes almost no mention of the PC as a platform. The only point at which it is mentioned relates to the streaming of PlayStation 3 games to PC, which will be available to those who pay for the most expensive PlayStation Plus Premium tier. Here’s the full list of games:
Crash Commando | Creative Vault Studios, PS3 Demon’s Souls | From Software, PS3 echochrome | Japan Studio, PS3 Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds | Japan Studio, PS3 Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational | Japan Studio, PS3 Ico | Japan Studio, PS3 Infamous | Sucker Punch, PS3 Infamous 2 | Sucker Punch, PS3 Infamous: Festival of Blood | Sucker Punch, PS3 LocoRoco Cocoreccho! | Japan Studio, PS3 MotorStorm Apocalypse | Evolution Studios, PS3 MotorStorm RC | Evolution Studios, PS3 Puppeteer | Japan Studio, PS3 rain | Japan Studio, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty | Insomniac Games, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time |Insomniac Games, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus | Insomniac Games, PS3 Resistance 3 | Insomniac Games, PS3 Super Stardust HD | Housemarque, PS3 Tokyo Jungle | Japan Studio, PS3 When Vikings Attack | Clever Beans, PS3 Asura’s Wrath | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 | Konami, PS3 Devil May Cry HD Collection | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc., PS3 F.E.A.R. | WB Games, PS3 Lost Planet 2 | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 | Koei Tecmo, PS3 Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare |Rockstar Games, PS3
There are some great games in the list, including Ico the original Demon’s Souls, but it’s otherwise deeply underwhelming. You might be thinking: hey, PlayStation is fundamentally about PlayStation owners, not us hangers-on on PC. The problem is that PlayStation Now was a genuinely decent service for PC players. It included over 700 games from PS1, PS2 and PS3, and even added some PlayStation 4 games over five years ago. Perhaps new games will be added to the service quickly after launch, but if this blog post is taken at face value, Sony are taking away PlayStation Now from PC players who use it and replacing it with a significantly more expensive subscription (£13.49 up from £9) to PlayStation Plus which has a fraction of the available games.