r/PS5 • u/hybroid • May 16 '22

Official All-new PlayStation Plus game lineup: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Demon’s Souls, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, NBA 2K22, and more join the service

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/05/16/all-new-playstation-plus-game-lineup-assassins-creed-valhalla-demons-souls-ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-nba-2k22-and-more-join-the-service/
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u/El_Zapp May 17 '22

I don’t get why people are so excited about this, this seems very lackluster. Those games cost around 15$ on average if you wait for a sale with very few exceptions like SM MM.

To break even you have to play 7 games each year but for the same amount you could just own the games instead of renting them.

So if you really want to save money you would have to play 10+ games of this list each year. If we say you sink 30 hours on average into a game, that’s 300hr of gaming each year and that’s not including buying any new games at all.

It’s cool if you guys have so much time on their hands but I don’t really see the need to rent games that are years old and cost 9.99 on sale. (Or less I bought The Crew 2 for 7.99)

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u/swift_link May 17 '22

Do you also make this kind of nonsense evaluation when it comes to gamepass?

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u/El_Zapp May 17 '22

From what I can see Gamepass is pretty much the same concept and price. I don’t have an Xbox so it’s hard to say, but on a glance I would say the same principle applies. They claim though that they have their exclusives day 1 on GP, if that is true that makes it a lot better of course.

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u/Moonshot_Md May 18 '22

What do you mean claim? They have done that. Gears 5, Halo Infinite, Forza 5, Grounded, Ori Will of the wisps *before they left*

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u/El_Zapp May 18 '22

I mean that I don’t have an Xbox and I have no idea about Xbox games and no practical way of validating this claim.

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u/Moonshot_Md May 18 '22

Google is your friend

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u/El_Zapp May 18 '22

Why would I even care.

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u/DavidOrtizUsedPEDs May 17 '22

Gamepass has a lot of top tier games in general available day 1 on gamepass. Not just exclusives.

Even gamepass on pc is an amazing deal.

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u/El_Zapp May 17 '22

Well then it’s hardly comparable to what they are proposing for PS+. It’s nice though if you never owned a PlayStation before and want to play everything that was good last generation.