Playstation Plus Service Detailed

Written Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Richard Walker

Head over to the EU PlayStation Blog, you'll find a full rundown of what the new PlayStation Plus service will mean for European PlayStation Network users from June 29th onwards when the optional Plus upgrade starts up.

Here's a list of all the salient details you need to know about PlayStation Plus from the PlayStation Blog:

* Launching on the 29th June
* The current PSN features will remain free. Sony is still very committed to PSN as a free gaming service and is not planning on reducing the service following the launch of PlayStation Plus.
* Plus is an evolving service and the features included at launch will be:
o Games
o Discounts
o Exclusive items on PlayStation Store
o Full Game Trial
o Automatic Downloads
* Membership to Plus can be purchased through PlayStation Store on PS3 for either 90 days or a whole year (365 days)
* Local prices for membership can be found below, payment is a one off fee for either of the memberships and can be purchased with any of the current Store payment methods – Credit Card or PSN Cards
* If you sign up between the 29th June and 3rd Aug for the 1 year subscription then you will also receive a downloadable copy of the original LittleBigPlanet game for PS3, completely free! This is yours to keep and is not tied to the period of subscription

With PlayStation Plus you'll get access to 4 games each month available for download and they'll be your for the duration of your Plus subscription. They will be 1 PSN Game, 2 Minis and 1 PSone Classic.

You'll also get 2 dynamic themes, 2 premium avatars and premium add-ons to download, some of which will be exclusive for Plus members.

Factor in early access to full game trials, demos and betas as well as monthly discounts of between 20%-50%, and you have over £200 worth of content for the price of £39.99/€49.99/$49.99 a year or £11.99/€14.99/$17.99 for 90 days.

These offers apply to the UK and Europe only, and the US PlayStation Plus service will be presented with different PS Plus offers.

So basically, on day one, you can get LBP and WipEout HD for free. That's $150 right there.
Add to that a few themes and avatars, a PS1 Classic and some minis, then on the first day of your subscription you've basically payed for 2-3 years of a Playstation Plus subscription.

Kudos you both

This is what we get for the first 2 months.

Month 1: June 29th – August 3rd
Intro offer: LBP (standard edition)
PSN PS3: Wipeout HD
minis: Field Runners, Age of Zombies
PSone: Destruction Derby
Full Game Trial: Shatter, Savage Moon
Discounts: LBP God of War Pack – 50%, LBP: LocoRoco costume pack – 50%, Gravity Crash – 20%, Fat Princess DLC – 20%
Premium Game Element: KillZone 2: Steel & Titanium DLC
Push demo: ModNation Racers, Heavy Rain
Dynamic Themes: LBP Theme, SCEE produced: PlayStation “Game Is Just The Start” Dynamic Theme
2 x Fat Princess Premium Avatars
Month 2: August 4th – September 1st
PSN PS3: Zen Pinball
minis: Blast-Off, Alien Zombie Death
PSone: Medievil
Full Game Trial: inFamous, Mushroom Wars
Discounts: Zen Pinball Earth Defence Table – 20%, Warhawk Triple Combo Pack – 50%, Super Stardust HD – 20%, WipeOutHD Fury – 20%
Premium Game Elements: Motorstorm Pacific Rift: Adrenaline Pack
Push Demo: Flower, Pixel Junk Shooter
Themes: “SCEE produced: PlayStation Plus Dynamic Theme, Heavy Rain Crime Scene Theme
2 x Heavy Rain Avatars (Bird and Butterfly)

Sounds like you get shitloads - I might consider getting it.

I really like the addition of a monthly add-on pack.
In this case Killzone 2's Add-on which I never got around to purchasing.

Oh, I'll also be getting on the piss and playing destruction derby again.

I can certainly see the value there, but unfortunately I already have most of the stuff in store for the first two months (I'm only really interested in the full games on offer. I don't care for LBP costumes, avatars or themes).

I'm not remotely tempted by the first two month's offerings, but will certainly keep an eye on coming months' offerings.

It's a bit unfortunate that you lose the right to play/use anything you've downloaded through PS Plus if you stop paying your membership, but I guess they have to introduce something long those lines to stop it being abused.

So who here has signed up 4 this? I'm still tossing it up...

Waiting for a month when they have an offer that I want.

yer it does not seem worth it for me yet either, i think ill wait to till there is somthing i like

I don't have LBP so I suppose it may b worth it... But do I really want that and wipeout?

azza2906 wrote:I don't have LBP so I suppose it may b worth it... But do I really want that and wipeout?

Yes

decided to sign up for the 90 days.. like it so far.. dl'ing one mini.. lol
kudos to all your posts gunn

Offers for Month 2: August 4th – September 1st

PSN PS3: Zen Pinball

Minis: Blast-Off, Alien Zombie Death

PSone: Medievil

Full Game Trial: Inferno Pool, Mushroom Wars

Discounts: Zen Pinball Earth Defence Table – 20%, Warhawk Triple Combo Pack – 50%, Super Stardust HD - 20%, WipeOutHD Fury – 20%

Premium Game Elements: Motorstorm Pacific Rift: Adrenaline Pack

Push Demo: Flower, Pixel Junk Shooter

Themes: PlayStation + Dynamic Theme (in production), Heavy Rain Crime Scene Theme

2 x Heavy Rain Avatars (Bird and Butterfly)