This topic is to explain and correct the facts about the Sony subscription based service 'Playstation Plus'.
Features
This subscription is between $54-$70 per year and gives you access to the following:
- Approx 64 Games per year, typically 5 per month as follows:
- 2 full PS3 games with a metacritic rating over 70
- 1 PSN game
- 2 PS Vita games
- games are released throughtout the month, three in the first day(s), one in the 2nd week, and one in the 3rd week (roughly)
- PS Store Discounts
- Exclusive offers on select demos, betas and early purchases
- Full Game Trials
- Automatic Downloads of system and game updates ie the console can be set to turn on and download content at a specified time
- Automatic (& manual) Upload (cloud saving) of game saves
Things to note
- Free items that appear in the 'Instant Games Collection' (ICG) once purchased can be downloaded at any time in the future provided your subscription is active, even once the item has been removed from the ICG list. It is advised that even if you dont plan on downloading the content any time soon, you purchase it anyway so that it will always be available to you in the future.
- Purchases of discounted content, ie that which still cost money, is yours regardless of subscription status.
- If you let your subscription expire or don't renew, you will lose access to any of the subscription based free content. But you can, in the future, restart your subscription and regain access to that content.
- You do not own the free content provided, if your subscription ends, so does access to that content.
Current Instant Game Collection can be seen here: Sony SEN store
Have I missed anything?
Update from jtr regarding licencing of games
http://worthplaying.com/article/2013/4/15/editorials/88859/
I can't really sumarise it much so perhaps have a read, not a major issue unless you intend on ending your subscription but want to to keep/re-buy some of the games.
thanks for sharing