PlayStation Plus' next free games are what subscribers have been begging for

Hold onto your hats - PlayStation Plus’ library of Premium-tier classic games sounds like it’s about to get way better.

I’m not going to lie, ever since the great PS Plus overhaul of 2022, I’ve just not felt incentivised to pay for the pricey Premium tier. All this time on, and the selection of classic games still feels pretty lacking - while new monthly additions have improved the library slightly, it’s just not seemed worth the price. Extra tier generally seems to give subscribers way more bang for their buck, allowing them to play awesome games like Tchia, NEO: The World Ends with You and Horizon Forbidden West.

Tchia was added to PS Plus Extra as a day-one release last month. Take a look at the trailer below.

However, as Game Rant reports, it looks like things are about to change. Reportedly, a new Sony patent which was published at the end of last month has proposed a new way for their users to engage with “legacy” games that originally had multiple discs. Loads of the greatest PS1 games fall into this category, perhaps largely due to the fact that using more than one disc gave the devs more storage space to work with.

Just to list a few examples of multi-disc PS1 games that we might be able to look forward to, there’s the original version of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Parasite Eve (which fans are still praying will get a remake eventually), and Xenogears - the first game in the Xeno series which released long before Xenoblade Chronicles.

Oddly, there’s one multi-disc PS1 game available to play via PS Plus Premium already - Syphon Filter 2. The subscription service version functions perfectly well and doesn’t even mention swapping discs - therefore, it’s not clear what exactly this new patent would change.

Additionally, just because a patent has been published, that doesn't mean it'll definitely end up being used. Let's hope that Sony clears things up soon.