Southeast Asians and PlayStation fans, here’s your Spartacus in action!

Sony has officially announced its new three-tier subscription service, slated for mid-2022. They’re called the PlayStation Plus Essential, the PlayStation Plus Extra, and the PlayStation Plus Premium. The former has the basic subscription service and game model, while the latter Premium features up to 240 additional games from the PS3, PS2, PSP, and PS1 library.

Here’s the listing in various currencies: 

PS Plus Essential

• Price*: for PlayStation Plus Essential remains the same as the current price for PlayStation Plus.
  • United States
    • $9.99 monthly / $24.99 quarterly / $59.99 yearly
  • Europe
    • €8.99 monthly / €24.99 quarterly / €59.99 yearly
  • United Kingdom
    • £6.99 monthly / £19.99 quarterly / £49.99 yearly
  • Japan
    • ¥850 monthly / ¥2,150 quarterly / ¥5,143 yearly
  • South Korea
    • KRW 7,500 monthly / KRW 18,800 quarterly / KRW 44,900 yearly
  • Hong Kong
    • HK$ 48 monthly / HK$ 128 quarterly / HK$ 308 yearly
  • Taiwan
    • NT$ 198 monthly / NT$ 488 quarterly / NT$ 1,188 yearly
  • Singapore
    • SGD 8.90 monthly / SGD 21.90 quarterly / SGD 53.90 yearly
  • Malaysia
    • RM 29 monthly / RM 69 quarterly / RM 159 yearly
  • NOTE: the rest of Asia countries pricing will follow

PlayStation Plus Extra

• Benefits:
  • Provides all the benefits from the Essential tierTwo monthly downloadable games.
  • Adds a catalog of up to 400* of the most enjoyable PS4 and PS5 games – including blockbuster hits from our PlayStation Studios catalog and third-party partners. Games in the Extra tier are downloadable for play.

• Price*:
  • United States
    • $14.99 monthly / $39.99 quarterly / $99.99 yearly
  • Europe
    • €13.99 monthly / €39.99 quarterly / €99.99 yearly
  • United Kingdom
    • £10.99 monthly / £31.99 quarterly / £83.99 yearly
  • Japan
    • ¥1,300 monthly / ¥3,600 quarterly / ¥8,600 yearly
  • South Korea
    • KRW 11,300 monthly / KRW 31,000 quarterly / KRW 75,300 yearly
  • Hong Kong
    • HK$ 75 monthly / HK$ 215 quarterly / HK$ 515 yearly
  • Taiwan
    • NT$ 298 monthly / NT$ 808 quarterly / NT$ 1,988 yearly
  • Singapore
    • SGD 13.90 monthly / SGD 35.90 quarterly / SGD 89.90 yearly
  • Malaysia
    • RM 44 monthly / RM 114 quarterly / RM 269 yearly
  • NOTE: the rest of Asia countries pricing will follow

PlayStation Plus Premium

• Benefits:
  • Provides all the benefits from Essential and Extra tiers
  • Adds up to 240* additional games, including:
    • PS3 games available via cloud streaming.
    • A catalog of beloved classic games available in both streaming and download options from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations.
  • Offers cloud streaming access for original PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS4 games offered in the Extra and Premium tiers in markets** where PlayStation Now is currently available. Customers can stream games using PS4 and PS5 consoles, and PC.
  • Time-limited game trials will also be offered in this tier, so customers can try select games before they buy.

• Price*:
  • United States
    • $17.99 monthly / $49.99 quarterly / $119.99 yearly
  • Europe
    • €16.99 monthly / €49.99 quarterly / €119.99 yearly
  • United Kingdom
    • £13.49 monthly / £39.99 quarterly / £99.99 yearly
  • Japan
    • ¥1,550 – monthly / ¥4,300 – quarterly / ¥10,250 yearly

• PlayStation Plus Deluxe (Select Markets) For markets without cloud streaming, PlayStation Plus Deluxe will be offered at a lower price compared to Premium, and includes a catalog of beloved classic games from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PSP generations to download and play, along with time-limited game trials. Benefits from Essential and Extra tiers are also included. Local pricing will vary by market.

• Price*:
  • South Korea
    • KRW 12,900 monthly / KRW 35,000 quarterly / KRW 86,500 yearly
  • Hong Kong
    • HK$ 85 monthly / HK$ 239 quarterly / HK$ 599 yearly
  • Taiwan
    • NT$ 338 monthly / NT$ 928 quarterly / NT$ 2,288 yearly
  • Singapore
    • SGD 15.90 monthly / SGD 40.90 quarterly / SGD 103.90 yearly
  • Malaysia
    • RM 50 monthly / RM 130 quarterly / RM 309 yearly
  • NOTE: the rest of Asia countries pricing will follow

These are the games that will be out when the service launches in the first half of 2022:

• Returnal
• God of War
• Marvel’s Spider-Man
• Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Death Stranding

As of now, there are no set prices for the Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand markets. We’ll be sure to update this list accordingly when they’re up.

To recap, if you want to play all the old PlayStation games from the PS1 days all the way to the PS5, you will need to pay RM50 monthly if you’re in Malaysia and S$15.90 if you’re in Singapore. Yearly pricing is RM309/S$103.90. We will need to look at the full PlayStation Plus archive and game library to see if it’s worth spending money on, but this does sound like a pretty good deal if you want the PlayStation equivalent of the Xbox and PC Game Pass.

Will You Be Able To Play NEW & Exclusive PlayStation Games At Launch ON PS PLUS?

No, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan in a recent GamesIndustry.biz interview. The new PS Plus will not regularly be getting first-party Sony games on launch day, unlike the Xbox Game Pass where first-party Xbox titles will be out Day One on its own game subscription service.

“This is not a road that we’ve gone down in the past. And it’s not a road that we’re going to go down with this new service. We feel if we were to do that with the games that we make at PlayStation Studios, that virtuous cycle will be broken. The level of investment that we need to make in our studios would not be possible, and we think the knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want.

[We’ve had] great critical success and great commercial success, and everybody has made their peace with that happening and is completely at ease with it. I look back four years and think nobody would have seen that coming.

All I’m talking to today is the approach we’re taking in the short term. The way our publishing model works right now, it doesn’t make any sense. But things can change very quickly in this industry, as we all know.”