PlayStation Plus Gamers Mourn The End Of An Era
By Published Apr 17, 2026, 10:34 AM EDT Lee D’Amato is a writer born, raised, and based in Queens, New York. With collective thousands of hours in games like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Elden Ring, and The Legend of Zelda, he's now writes game features, guides, and reviews for Screen Rant, but has covered a wide range of topics, including ancient history, affordable travel, and overall health. Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap
subscribers are lamenting the state of the service after many say its priorities have shifted. An answer to Microsoft's service formerly known as Xbox Live, PS Plus is ostensibly a subscription that grants you access to online play. More players know it, though, for its free game library: a handful of , and a bigger, ever-changing library of games on Premium and Extra.
But some fans say PS Plus has fallen off in recent days, with one particular part of its game library beginning to stagnate. There may be a perfectly good reason for it, but fans say they want more from the service's highest and most expensive tier.
PlayStation Plus Gamers Miss The Way Things Used To Be
PS Plus No Longer Offers "Enough" Classics
user Radec sums up the problem nicely: "I miss when offering more than one classic game per month was the standard for PlayStation Plus Premium." Since the PS3 days, PS Plus has offered a library of classic games on its Premium tier. This post cites past months when PS Plus has added three classics at once: Tomb Raider Legend, Sly Cooper, and Star Wars Clone Wars in June 2026; Sly 2 and 3 with Jak and Daxter in December 2026; and The Legend of Dragoon, Wild Arms 2, and Harvest Moon: Back to Nature .
This month, though, PS Plus subscribers only got one game in their Classics catalog: Wild Arms 4. Last month, just Tekken Dark Resurrection. In February... Wall-E for the PS2.
There are still some great games in PS Plus' classics repository, but the pacing of their releases seems to have slowed down near mid-to-late 2026, and still hasn't picked back up. Of course, this could be due to emulation issues: it may just take more time to get some of these classics to work on PS5. But it's also possible that Sony's priorities for PS Plus have shifted.
Subscribers in the replies say there's still a lot missing: Hot Shots Tennis on the PSP, the uncensored T-rated version of Ratchet and Clank, the , Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City and Vice City Stories — it seems like everyone's got something to request, and PS Plus hasn't delivered on any of them.
PlayStation Plus Has Had A Rocky 2026
Really, A Tough Two Years
Unfortunately, it's been one knock after another for PS Plus subscribers in the past couple of years. First, Sony announced a shift away from PS4 for the service, focusing instead on adding as many PS5 titles as possible. Then, there was a price hike in April 2026, and, with everything going on with Game Pass pricing these days, .
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PS Plus has always had lackluster months where there's nothing great on offer. Ideally, you stick it out for the good months that include three great games, but it seems like those are constantly becoming fewer and farther between. PlayStation Plus is still a necessity for anyone who wants to play online, but it seems like its bonus perks are on the decline.
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