Game news No, PS Plus is really not like Game Pass. This video game from a PS5 studio rated 18/20 is leaving the catalog!
Published on 05/05/2024 at 5:00 p.m.
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While Xbox’s first-party games remain in Game Pass forever, the same logic doesn’t seem to apply on Sony’s side with its PlayStation Plus offerings. At the end of the month, this PlayStation Studio game is leaving the catalog, and some Internet users think they know why.
Since the success of Xbox Game Pass, subscriptions have multiplied in the world of video games. After Microsoft, it was Sony which ended up taking inspiration from its long-time competitor to offer a similar service. To do this, PlayStation Plus, which until then allowed you to play online and keep your saves online, has evolved. Now, PlayStation players can choose between three tiers that provide access to different benefits.
For Extra and Premium, a catalog of games is made available to subscribers to play titles “for free” by downloading them to their consoles. Among the experiences available, we find PlayStation Studio productions to attract more and more people. However, what players did not imagine is that these first-party titles could leave the catalog over timebecause on Microsoft’s side, this never happened.
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A major difference between PS+ and Game Pass
The information that interests us today was spotted by the site Push Square. On the page of Horizon: Zero Dawn, first episode of the Guerilla Games series, it is indicated that the game will leave the PlayStation Plus Extra catalog from May 21. Currently, the title does not appear in the section of games which will soon leave the catalog, but it is on the store page that the date of May 21 is indicated. If we can imagine that this is an error, the fact that this is the same day that 25 PS5, PS4 and Classic games leave PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium seems to indicate that this is correct information. But the most surprising thing about all of this is that its sequel, Horizon: Forbidden West, has only just joined the catalog in March and is still available at this time.
If this decision seems so surprising, it is because players took for granted that PlayStation Studios productions would be available forever in PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium after their arrival. This has been Microsoft’s policy since the beginning of Xbox Game Pass, which even offers games from its studios from launch day in its subscription, something that Sony does not do. Obviously, PlayStation has a different opinion on the subject and some Internet users think they know why.
Why remove a Playstation Studios game from PS+?
In fact, this is not the first time that PlayStation has made such a decision. In 2023, a few months before the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, the first Marvel’s Spider-Man had disappeared from the PlayStation Plus catalog without explanation. For some Internet users, these decisions were apparently motivated by the fact that Sony does not want PlayStation Plus subscribers to prefer playing the original game when its sequel has only just been released. For Horizon Zero Dawn, the reasoning would be similar if we consider that the rumors around a remake of the game on PS5 are true and that the announcement would be coming soon. In any case, one thing is certain, it is that this choice surprised many players.
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