PS Plus Premium is a complete shambles before it's even started - Metro.co.uk

A reader is confused by Sony’s promotion of the revamped PS Plus and worries they’re not taking the Game Pass equivalent seriously.

No matter whether you’re a PlayStation or Xbox fan I think everyone would accept that Sony has a baseline of competence that is worthy of respect.

The revamp (which doesn’t really have an overall name, making it difficult to talk about in general – mistake number one for Sony’s marketing) was talked about for months before the official announcement, with everyone describing it as the PlayStation equivalent to Game Pass, which it essentially is.

Although, really, it’s PlayStation Extra, the middle of the three tiers that’s the most like Game Pass because while PS Plus Platinum is the most expensive it’s really just PS Extra + PS Now.

It’s not like I work in marketing, far from it, but I would have thought the obvious way to go was to announce it during a State of Play and have a big massive montage (they finally did one the other day but it’s barely a few seconds long) of the games on PS Plus Extra and Platinum.

That’d be two separate montages, ones for PlayStation 4 and 5 games for Extra and then older retro games for Platinum, to really get the nostalgia flowing.

Although in almost every case like this the answer is simple incompetence, but then that just leads me back to my opening statement where I assumed Sony were better than that.

Either Sony’s head of marketing is a secret double agent for Microsoft or Sony itself just doesn’t believe in the whole concept and resents having to copy Game Pass.

Except, like I said, they couldn’t even be bothered to talk about PlayStation 2 games, let alone anything else.

If Sony has a secret plan to make themselves and PS Plus Premium look sensible and reasonable at the end of all this then they are leaving it very late.

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