Only thing Iām concerned about is that they havenāt (yet) detailed what will happen for people like me who have months or years left on their PS Plus subscription and want to subscribe to a tier other than Essential.
Can we pay the difference? Do we have to forfeit the months we have pre-bought (unlikely, but I wouldnāt rule it out with Sony)?
I recall somewhere saying we would potentially go to mid tier, so we reap similar benefits without losing value.
I think itās over priced, Xbox game pass has more value with day 1 releases and seems a lot more in hand with the game rollouts.
Iām no expert gamer but I thinks itās way over priced.
There is the benefit of cloud gaming for financial purposes, but is everyoneās broadband connection going to be up to scratch for this? Especially online gaming without local storage, does this require more bandwidth?
We have a fair speed (350/35) with VM so itās no bother for us.
Having checking the differences again in probably just going to remain on Essential unless thereās some amazing offer to upgrade or they roll out 50% discounts as they do Plus now and then.
Not sure id wanna go through all the OG games through PlayStation history, theyāve not even labelled what they are yet either so could be absolute tripe.
No, current PS Plus subscribers will go to the Essential tier - the basic one.
If you also have a PS Now subscription you go to the top tier.
Seems that ps plus has a much better brand than ps now and adding in a half way house on ps now light to get people the try. If they get t1 games in from day 1 like Xbox will be more interesting. Basically committed to nothing on that front at the moment. Playing old stuff is fun but not Ā£50 a year fun.
Itās a pretty meh update to be honest.
Iāve never been a huge fan of the idea of Playstation Plus - the idea of paying for in-game content that PC users donāt need to is a bit grim.
Currently still on that Elden Ring hype and thereās aspects of the game I canāt really use unless I was to sign up. Was tempted to purchase the year membership and Flex-ing it 
but was still on the fence.
Digesting this recent update to see if it sways me 
I kind of agree but I signed up for a very different reason.
I signed up to Plus because Oddworld: Soulstorm was the free game that month. It cost me ~Ā£30 for a years membership with all the benefits, whereas to buy the game it was ~Ā£50. It was a no-brainer for me.
Oh god, Heavy Rain was amazing.
And that game is hard! 
I must admit i probably dont use my ps5 as much as i should , i got it as a treat during the pandemic and play it at the weekend for a few hrs i have the plus and now subscriptions and since then have really found no need to buy a full priced game , so it will be interesting to see what tier i end up in the new thing and what that brings
I wish just one time, Iād be able to switch on my PS5 and just play
Every. Single. Time.
Carlo1460 if anyone wants to add btw. Iām terrible at shooting games and all else.
Press start without updating?
In all seriousness, downloading and installing are quick but ācopying the update file isnātā¦ what is it doing?!
It just takes soooooo long
Itās all down to the mad way the PlayStation stores data on the disk. Itās all heavily super-optimised to be as fast as possible - and sometimes it has to spend some time moving other games around on the disk to be able to patch the update into the game thatās being updated.
Iām not explaining it very well. Itās almost as if I barely understand it.
Extremely simply put, your disk might be arranged like this:
[----GAME1----] [----GAME2----][---------FREE SPACE--------]
And when it wats to update GAME1 it will do this:
[----GAME1----][---FREE SPACE---][----GAME2----][----FREE SPACE----]
And then:
[----GAME1----][-GAME1 PATCH-][----GAME2----][----FREE SPACE----]
Erm that may be the case on a ps4 (although defragging seems unlikely) but a ps5 is an ssd so their is no need to rearrange data like that.
I did think that - but I figured the PS5 must be doing something similar during the āCopyingā phase.
I think itās more how they are applying the differential patches to textures etc. itās always been bad on PlayStation and Sony really doesnāt have much inclination to improve it it appears.
I had one too. It had a pitch shifter knob at the end of the neck. I thought I sounded amazing playing the EastEnders theme tune on it. 
