Small surprise that, for Microsoft, the free titles coming in Games With Gold are a shortcoming and, for Sony, the PlayStation Now streaming/downloadable subscription is considered second fiddle, its voluminous library notwithstanding. They’re two entirely different services, but one could credibly say you’d buy an Xbox Series X for Xbox Game Pass, and you’d buy the PlayStation 5 - assuming you can find one - for PlayStation Plus.
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Announcements of a new month of games are a circle-the-calendar reminder for most dedicated video gamers, and PlayStation makes it easy to claim everything quickly, without clearing off space for a full download. Sony used 2021 to solidify its position with PlayStation Plus as a debut stage for some new games that are at least worth a look, as well as a rewards mechanism to thank longtime subscribers for paying for multiplayer. Games With Gold’s year-end MSRP can be fairly chided for the influence of both, but not PlayStation Plus.
And these aren’t Sony inflating the MSRP of a game it’s offering for free, nor are these games the dubious full-price wares of budget publishers whose catalog never goes on sale. Recently, I’ve tried to de-emphasize dollar figures as a measure of value in this analysis, but the numbers still stick out.
In 2021, PlayStation Plus gave players 40 - a per-game average of $35. Since we started breaking down the offerings of PS Plus and Xbox Live Games with Gold in 2014, the $1,424.60 given out by Sony this year is second only to 2018, when the company was supporting three platforms with six games a month. And this year, PlayStation Plus gave subscribers more than $1,400 worth of video games. When we build this year-end analysis, we’re adding up the game’s listed, non-sale prices at the end of the year. Unlike Microsoft, Sony doesn’t mention the PlayStation Store’s retail price for the free games it doles out every month in the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection.
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