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Over 50 Games Reportedly Leaving PS Now Before the Relaunch of PS Plus

Over 50 Games Reportedly Leaving PS Now Before the Relaunch of PS Plus - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 April 2022 / 2,336 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment will be rolling out its new PlayStation Plus service in Asia on May 23, in Japan on June 1, in the Americas on June 13, and in Europe on June 22. The new service combines the current PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into a single service that will be available in three tiers - Essential, Extra, and Premium.

Reddit user Cobra_Bite has noted 56 games that are currently available on PlayStation Now will be leaving the service in May ahead of the relaunch of PlayStation Plus.

It isn't known if they will be re-added once the new PlayStation Plus launches or if they will be gone for good.

Here is the list of games leaving PlayStation Now:

PlayStation 4

May 3

  • Akibas Beat (NA)
  • Akibas Trip (NA)
  • Anomaly 2
  • Exile's End 
  • Hotel Transylvania 3
  • Lovely Planet 
  • NBA 2K18 
  • No Time To Explain 
  • Steredenn Binary Stars
  • The Final Station
  • The Golf Club 2019 

May 17

  • Destroy All Humans
  • MGSV GZ
  • MGSV
  • MX vs ATV Supercross Encore 
  • Sonic Mania
  • Sonic Forces 
  • Team Sonic Racing
  • The Dwarves 
  • Virtua Fighter V
  • Valkria Chronicles Remastered
  • WWE 2K19

PlayStation 3

May 3

  • Sonic CD

May 17

  • Alex Kidd in Miracle World
  • Altered Beast
  • Bomberman Ultra
  • Casrlevania Lord of Shadow
  • Catherine
  • Comic zone
  • Crazy Taxi
  • Fighting Vipers
  • Golden Axe
  • House of the Dead 3+4+Overkill
  • Metal Gear Rising
  • MGS4
  • Nights into Dreams
  • Renegade Ops
  • Sega Bass Fishing
  • Silent Hill HD Collection
  • Sonic Adventure
  • Sonic Adventure 2
  • Sonic 4 Episode 1+2
  • Sonic the Fighters
  • Sonic Generations
  • Sonic Unleashed
  • Super Hang On
  • The Revenge of Shinobi
  • Virtua Fighter 2+V
  • Yakuza 4+5
  • Zeno Clash 2

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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29 Comments
UnderwaterFunktown (on 27 April 2022)

Would be a damn shame if they do lose them for real. There are some great titles in here.

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method114 (on 27 April 2022)

Nothing I'm worried about. I wish we could get the list of what will on the service but I assume Sony is still finalizing deals and all of that good stuff.

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JackHandy (on 27 April 2022)

This is why I always advise people interested in games to just own them physically. If you leave it in the hands of these guys, you're at their mercy. So if there's a game, or set of games that really matter to you, go buy them physically. If they're old games, go on Ebay and get them. You'll thank yourself down the road, even if right now you only game digitally.

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method114 JackHandy (on 27 April 2022)

Yea but then I have to get off the couch and change disc and who wants to do that over something that has never once been an issue in my life. I've been digital gaming for about 15 years now. Never once have I had an issue with losing one of my games. I understand the hesitancy people like you have because I was the same way. After 15 years now I realize it was me worrying about an issue that doesn't exist.

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JackHandy method114 (on 27 April 2022)

Even if you don't plan on relying on them, it's still wise to buy a physical backup. And if it's an old game that's dirt cheap, even more so. There's very little downside to dropping the equivalent to the price of one fast-food meal on an old, used game... other than losing one fast-food meal lol.

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Brimac19 method114 (on 28 April 2022)

Just because it never happened doesn’t mean it never will. Physical first, then digital purchase but absolutely “no” to relying on game services like Gamepass.. But that’s just me!

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method114 Brimac19 (on 28 April 2022)

I like services like GP because a lot of games to me are one and done. There are very few games I want to preserve for life. Like 10 at most and that's probably stretching it honestly. It's most likely 5. Also physical isn't reliable either. What if you get robbed or your house burns down? If your being this paranoid about game preservation then you need to go even further. Get a fire proof safe and get it bolted down into cement. Better yet get a gaming PC and rip all your games onto external HD's and keep one at home in a fire proof safe. Then keep two extra copies of these drives one at relatives house and then one at the bank.

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JackHandy method114 (on 29 April 2022)

Physical isn't reliable? Then why does my copy of Astroids and my Atari 2600 still work just as good as it did in the late 70's, without doing anything special to protect either them? Why do all those old, dusty Atari carts sitting in cardboard boxes at flea markets still work? Physical is quite reliable lol.

As far as I'm concerned, the argument for physical comes down to control. If I own a game, I decide its fate. If I want to keep it at a perfect 72 degrees, in a safe... baby it for the rest of my life, I can. Or I can toss it around the room like a frisbee. But in the end, it's my choice. And I like that. I don't like letting a company decide if/when I play a game, and what version of said game I'm playing (GTA taking out licensed music etc.). I like the fact that I own the original, unaltered version of games physically, and I don't have to deal with anything to play them other than popping them in, and playing them. To me, that's worth all the inconveniences that comes with the physically owning them. But again, that's just me. If that's not for you, than that's fine.

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method114 JackHandy (on 29 April 2022)

They are still sitting there and working because no one has robbed you yet or you house hasn't burnt down that was my whole point. I can point out examples of digital working just as well. Your copy of asteroids is easily playable in a browser now. I can even download a copy on to my PC as well. My whole point is digital not being reliable isn't really valid anymore. Maybe before it was a worry but the digital age has been here and it's been clear it works. Here a man who is just lost over 2000 of those reliable physical games you were talking about.

https://gamerant.com/house-fire-destroys-video-game-collection/

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JackHandy method114 (on 29 April 2022)

I never said it wasn't reliable. My argument isn't about reliability. My argument is about control, as I mentioned above. With physical, I decide when and how I play them. With digital, they decide. If they want to strip things out of that game with a patch (we're talking console gaming here), you either accept that patch and lose that music, or that thing, and play them in the way they want you to play them, or you don't play them (there's pirating, but we're not going there) at all. Digital is convenient, but at the loss of control. Now, maybe that's no big deal to you. Maybe you don't care that your games been altered. Maybe you don't mind having to deal with hard drives, internet checks, delistings, patches... what have you. And that's cool. But see, I do. There's something much more pleasing to me about popping a completely unmolested copy of GTA SA into my PS2 and playing the game on a CRT in its purest, original form without having to worry about all of that aforementioned nonsense getting in the way. Just put game in, play game, take game out and play another game for the rest of my life. I like it that way.

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method114 JackHandy (on 29 April 2022)

Ok I see what you mean now. I can understand that POV it's never been something i cared about much.

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JackHandy method114 (on 29 April 2022)

Yes... and I can't tell you how many side-looks I've gotten from friends for being a "purist". lol. I'm always like, but it's not the same unless you have the real console hooked up to an old TV! Eh... I suppose somebody's gotta be that old guy. Might as well be me haha.

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method114 JackHandy (on 29 April 2022)

Haha hey you like what you like man. You should see the looks my wife gives me when I'm playing one of my anime games. I see her lose a little respect for me every time.

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scrapking JackHandy (on 30 April 2022)

In a world full of all sorts of injustice, how much control I have over my game collection just isn't a very important consideration for me. I use movie/TV streaming services, and I use Game Pass. They give me lots of content, very inexpensively.

Nothing says you can't or shouldn't do both. Use the subscription services to get access to a lot of content inexpensively, and also purchase on disc those movies, TV shows, and games that you expect to revisit for years and years to come.

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JackHandy scrapking (on 01 May 2022)

Great attitude!

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Signalstar (on 27 April 2022)

I have to hurry and finish MGS IV then...

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Giggity_goo Signalstar (on 27 April 2022)

not to worry can buy the disc for about £5

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SvenTheTurkey Giggity_goo (on 27 April 2022)

But can't play that on PS4 or PS5. Would need an actual PS3.

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Signalstar SvenTheTurkey (on 27 April 2022)

I bought a used PS3 disc version for $2 years ago. I'd much rather stream it on my PS4.

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SvenTheTurkey Signalstar (on 27 April 2022)

Right. That's what I mean. The PS3 disc can't be used on the newer systems. That's why he's on the clock to play it on his PS4 or 5.

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Signalstar SvenTheTurkey (on 28 April 2022)

I still have my PS3. It's hooked up in the basement. PS4 is in my bedroom. Streaming quality generally pretty good.

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SvenTheTurkey Signalstar (on 28 April 2022)

Oh. Well what's the rush on beating it then?

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JackHandy Signalstar (on 27 April 2022)

I'll gladly take that disc and PS3 off your hands if it's too bothersome lol

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LivncA_Dis3 (on 27 April 2022)

They shouldn't have permanent games,

Every couple of months some leave and then add new games into the mix just like de gamepass

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INCITATUSBR (on 27 April 2022)

shame on you Sony =P

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rapsuperstar31 (on 27 April 2022)

A lot of Sega games in there, hopefully it doesn't mean a sale of the company to Microsoft of Nintendo is happening. I doubt it but hopefully Sony is getting some Sega games on their service similar to gamepass having all the Yakuza games.

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method114 rapsuperstar31 (on 27 April 2022)

Not sure it means anything. They still have Doom 2016 on PSnow and gamepass doesn't even have that game.

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Brimac19 rapsuperstar31 (on 28 April 2022)

I think their being pulled because Sega has a new Sonic Origins game coming out.

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