While the tiers themselves are a little confusing at first glance, Sony’s reveal and release pattern forPS Plus' Essential, Extra, and Premium Tiers are pretty clear. The reveal of each comes less than a week before their release, and players will get the Essential tier games at the start of the month and Extra and Premium at the end of it. This means fans can already claim thePS Plus free/Essential tier games for August 2022, which includeTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Cross-Gen Deluxe Bundle, Yakuza: Like a Dragon,andLittle Nightmares.
On August 16, Sony will release thePS Plus Extra and Premium games for August 2022, which currently come in at 12 total games. It should be noted that July’s offering included a surprise game, not revealed until its inclusion, and it’s possible that happens again. It would likely only be one game though. The problem here, though, is that was supplemental, and the releases for July in this department were solid on their own. The PS Plus Extra and Premium games, however, seem to be forgetting something.
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PS Premium Games for August 2022 Have a Huge Hole Where Something Important Should Be
It should be noted that this selection ofPS Plusgames is solid. It includes threeYakuzagames (0, Kiwami, andKiwami 2),Ghost Recon Wildlands,andMetro Exodus, all of which are big games fans can spend tons of time in. It’s joined by the beloved multiplayer gameDead by Daylightand the cutesyBugsnax,whileEverspaceis perhaps a smaller game some fans could dive into as well. The same goes forTrials of Mana, and there are a few minor, card/party games that join for a little extra oomph:Uno, Monopoly Madness, andMonopoly Plus. However, the longer someone looks at this list, the more obvious it is something is missing.
There are noPS1, PS2, PS3, or PSP gamesincluded on this list. Indeed, one way PS Plus Extra and Premium edge over the Xbox Game Pass model is the focus and category dedicated to classic games. And there are major titles likeDino Crisisthat have been teased by Sony, but not yet added to the service. It didn’t even need to be that specifically, but clearly ignoring one of its biggest appeals of the Premium service is not great. After all, this makes the Extra tier currently seem more appealing than Premium. It’s not sure why Sony hasn’t included at least a couple of classic games, but hopefully, this isn’t a trend.
PS Plus Premiumwill release new games on August 16.
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