Push Square writes: "The top-tier subscription service, which arrived with the grand promise of cloud streaming and retro classics, had been on a bit of an upwards trajectory – but a series of subpar updates has since seen it come crashing down to Earth."
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I had converted the last couple of months of my plus to premium just to try out the portal streaming library. But I didn't renew premium because it's unjustifiably expensive.
If it wasn't for the fact that I accidentally forgot to turn off auto renew. I wouldn't have PlayStation Plus right now
And this is why I support different services. When one has a down month, another might be having a boom.
“But the rollout of these retro classics has become nothing short of glacial. Here’s what we’ve got in 2025 so far:
Alone in the Dark 2
Armored Core
Armored Core: Master of Arena
Armored Core: Project Phantasma
Battle Engine Aquila
Dropship: United Peace Force
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
MediEvil 2
Patapon 3
War of the Monsters
When you compare to Nintendo Switch Online, there’s a night-and-day difference; this year alone has seen the addition of Fatal Fury 2, Donkey Kong, Ridge Racer 64, Streets of Rage, and Wario Land 4 to name just a few. Next month the Expansion Pak will start adding GameCube games, too.“
So this articles opinion is the quality of PSN essentials plus dropped because it had 1 classic this month SO FAR that dropped. But has been regularly adding more content over the years. Yet it’s diminished in comparison to Nintendos online release of some classic titles listed above AND a console exclusive library that isn’t out yet with no REAL knowledge of what it offers day 1?
Yet all of the 400+ included games on ps plus that continues to add more and more content is dropping quality?
Only people you convincing of this is fanboys and console war warriors that are foaming for half truths to attack strangers on the internet with.
I freaking love cloud streaming on my PS Portal, especially for retro titles. It's like having the PSP 2 I've always dreamed of!
But that said, my yearly renewal just kicked in for PS+ Premium and it was almost the same cost as the PS Portal for a year of Premium. That is... hard to swallow.
If they don't enable 'stream your own games from the cloud' for PS Portal by this time next year, I think I'll probably downgrade my service and just use the Portal to stream locally. Hard to justify nearly 200 dollars a year just to stream titles to my PS Portal...