PlayStation Plus Quietly Rolls Out Controversial Change Alongside June Free Games
Topics: PlayStation Plus, PlayStation 5, Sony, PlayStation
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Topics: PlayStation Plus, PlayStation 5, Sony, PlayStation
Yesterday, on 10 June, PlayStation Plus confirmed its latest free game line-up with seven titles making their way to the extra tier this month with just one for the premium tier.
That premium tier addition is the PlayStation 2 era rhythm game, Gitaroo Man.
Extra tier users can look forward to Final Fantasy XVI, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Farming Simulator 25, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Blades of Fire, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Black Desert.
Typically, PlayStation Plus line-ups drop six days after they’re announced. The line-up lands on a Wednesday and the following Tuesday is when those games become available to play.
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It looks, however, as if PlayStation might be rolling out a new change that could prove controversial with PlayStation Plus subscribers.
This time around, all of the announced extra and premium tier games for June have been given individual release dates.
Sonic X Shadow Generations landed first and became available yesterday when the line-up was revealed.
That’ll then be followed by Final Fantasy XVI which arrives globally on 16 June.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Life is Strange: Double Exposure are next, joining the US, UK, and Japanese catalogues on 23 June.
On 30 June, Farming Simulator 25, Black Desert, and Blades of Fire joined the US, UK, and Japanese catalogues.
Finally, Gitaroo Man - the only premium tier addition - will be released globally on 16 June.
If your region is not mentioned here, games will drop in one full batch as expected.
We’ve certainly never seen a staggered rollout like this, which is much more akin to how Xbox Game Pass functions.
On one hand, this means gamers receive new games more often but it’s not like the quantity has increased; the drops are just spread further apart.
PlayStation briefly acknowledged the change on the PlayStation Blog, writing, “We’re exploring new ways to deliver PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles in select markets.
It continued, “Games will be available on varying dates as noted below in the US, the UK and Japan. The full lineup will be available to play on June 16 in all other regions.”
In previous months, the only thing that dictated a game dropping outside of the usual Tuesday window was if it was a day-one launch.
A quick browse online reveals that users don’t yet seem to have clocked on to the change, so there isn’t much in the way of a response.
That’ll likely arrive next week when subscribers notice that the entire line-up didn’t drop on Tuesday, as expected.
As only select regions are included in this trial, PlayStation will likely try and guage a response to determine whether to make this permanent.
It’s quite an extensive trial if the US, UK, and Japan are all involved. Personally, I’m not sure what benefit this offers to subscribers who just want games as soon as possible.
Only time will tell though, how the change goes down.
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