Scores of PS Now Games Being Scrubbed from the Service

I'm gutted about the Silent Hill HD Collection being taken off, it's really expensive to buy physically on PS3.

Same as ever from Sony then, pay more get less.

Ten backwards steps before Sony charge you more for Five forward steps.

This new service is not only arriving at a terrible time, it’s being launched in a really bad way.

Yep, WWE 2K19 is going which is a shame as it’s still a great game. Silent Hill HD Collection going is the big one though, might be a crap port but it’s a crap port of two of the best games ever released.

I'm scared to see all Sega games go. Hope it doesn't mean they want to be free of contractual obligations to Sony in order to facilitate a Microsoft buy out

All major publishers on board for PS+ Extra/Premium. All Sega titles being dropped from PS Now. Ergo, Sony does not consider Sega a major publisher.

If you were a psnow subscriber, did you need ps+ or did psnow work just fine without it?

@PhhhCough you could play Now games online without PS+. Only thing you'd need plus for with Now would be to transfer your saves from the streamed console to an actual console by going through PS+'s cloud saves (or vice versa).

@Milktastrophe thanks!

@Snake_V5 They Might Replace The HD Collection With The PS2 Originals Kinda Like How The PS4 Version Of Resident Evil Code Veronica Is An upscale Of The PS2 Game While The One For The PS3 Was a Proper Remaster.

@munstre there weren't that many ps3 games on PS Now

@Snake_V5 If you have PS Now, now, you will have it when they release the tiered packages. As PS Now will automatically be their highest tier which is PS Plus Premium. So not really understanding your sadness. I'm sure they'll put the games back when they switch to the new system.

I still don't understand people who want to play ps3 ps2 ps1 games, like just get a laptop it doesn't have to be expensive and it will be able to run all those titles for you. I have a decent budget laptop for work and I occasionally game on it, modern games run fine on it.
on a console, you are under Sony's mercy of what they will provide and I'm sure not all games would be available they will pick them based on popularity.

@Milktastrophe or to play any game not on psnow online. Moot point after the change of course.

When are we going to find out what the games are for the new ps now?

Guess its time to renew PS NOW to finish last half of Castlevania LOS...only got till the 17th.

@Snake_V5

$22 on Amazon US.

@nessisonett @Snake_V5 Maybe they'll include the superior PS2 versions of those games on the premium tier of PS+?

House of the dead , crazy taxi & sonic adventure were a few of the games that actually made me want to subscribe to the service 🙈

Another article that's pointing towards new plus being a dumpster fire, I love my Sony exclusives but business wise and customer loyalty is getting worse

@SilverShamrock I'm from UK.

@SamMR

No way you could emulate PS3 games on a budget laptop very difficult to emulate one of the reason why it's streaming for PS3 titles but with the power of ps5 they could emulate if Sony put the effort in but no chance in hell you will run them on a budget laptop.

Im one of the few whos been happy dowloading ps4 titles from now for a long time. Whilst its a shame some titles wil inevitably not survive the switch over, the transition will bring benefits to exsisting subscribers, so its easy to forgive.
I'll be happy to get a few ps5 titles on now at last, and whilst im not looking to play old stuff on the ps5, there are a couple of psp titles i enjoy, so it'd be rude not to look.
I like change, i like the fact they are doing something new, and I hope it helps bring more games to more people. Bring it on.

reading the comments on here , its crazy how people don't think at all before they write anything now. games get removed all the time , its like netflix. they only have them on for so long and then add new ones. even game pass removes games from there. you don't actually own anything on ps+ or gamepass. so in the end if you want it forever , you actually have to buy it. crazy right?

@Ralizah It would be great for sure. Ultimately it depends on the emulation used though, plus at least the PS3 version has trophies. They need to give me a reason to not just play the PC port!

@Snake_V5
I got it for £20 sealed on eBay. Even though I still prefer the originals.

To be fair that was about two years ago.

@nessisonett I mean, one could just very easily emulate all of these games on PC at higher resolutions, but presumably this premium tier is aimed at people who either WANT to play on a console or feel squeamish about messing around with emulators and whatnot.

Although I ripped my own PS2 copies of these games, so I feel not a bit of guilt about playing on PCSX2.

Hearing you praise the PC port makes me want to look into that as well, though.

Trophy support would be cool, but I feel like it would be used as an excuse to limit the pool of available titles.

Anything's better than the goofy HD Collection that messed up the aesthetic of Silent Hill 2.

@Ralizah Absolutely check out the fan remaster of the PC port. It’s incredibly impressive for a fan effort and stays true to the original aesthetic.

@suikoden you're right for most PS3 games however some actually run well on laptops , games that actually are hard to come by, such as boku Natsu 3 and other Japanese import games. You just gotta be selective, I have a PS3 and only emulate games that are not available in the west or rare games

@Stocksy it's being launched in the most sensible way possible. It's not Sony's fault you lack patience.

@daveofduncan what’s patience got to do with my post? The launch should have been delayed. I’m asking for a delay…

@Stocksy you never mentioned a delay in the first place. You just come across like an impatient player fed up of waiting. The service doesn't need delayed at all.

@daveofduncan “StocksyYesterday, 6:36pm
Ten backwards steps before Sony charge you more for Five forward steps.
This new service is not only arriving at a terrible time, it’s being launched in a really bad way”

How is anything there suggesting I’m impatient.

The first part is factual.

The second part is correct. It’s a terrible time to launch a new service especially at a much higher cost. Netflix and the other sub services are losing subs left right and centre. There is a cost of living crisis going on. It’s a stupid time to launch a service with barely any details and expect it to succeed.

All this will do is create a narrative that this service is awful. Gamepass can still be had for £3.40 a month as Xbox happily leave open the cheap work round. This service is considerably more than that and doesn’t include day one exclusives.

I don’t think it should include day one exclusives but that’s all you’ll read when it launches. I’m a realist and I want this service to be a good one and succeed but Sony proved with Now (and has proved before with Vita and so many other things) that if the public don’t lap it up at first offering they get bored and don’t do much with it.

If the numbers for this are poor. They will just ignore it and not do much with it like they did now.

I personally liked now but you go on any gaming forum and the majority of comments are negative and you go on forums and look at GPU comments and they are positive. Sony needs to think carefully about their PR.

I’m not impatient I’m a realist.

@DualWielding contractual obligations if sega were to be aquired would still remain but exclusivity unless contracted is a different thing alltogether. Say microsoft did aquire sega (which i think is quite impossible seeing as sega has already tried too remain on neutral ground for many years) contracts that were in place would still remain till handover. Handovers arent instant and take up too 1 year after the news hits mainstream in most cases. They could be repricing or as i know removing some sega games for sonic origins.

@Stocksy that was a really good thought out reply.

I really do think the tiers are kind of stupid imho same with gamepass. The cheap workaround for gamepass will at some point be removed (especially if the rumors are true that they are removing gold and merging with gamepass 1st tier anyways). This would bring the ps plus premium tier along the same lines as ultimate in cost but not in features. What does that leave? Each service has that "you cant get that on that" thing.

Also ive noticed a lot of games being phased out of the smart delivery across generations and have chose too charge more for optimised for x and s... which i think is kind of a rip off.

You dont get ea play with ps plus premium so thats one thing but i would of thought isnt hard to get at least some or all ea play games through normal contracts too service on ps plus premium.

They are really similar services imho and its not finalised or released till june 2022.

Yes sony have dropped the ball cause they liturally made ps now obsolete and more expensive, added cloud saves as part of a paid for tier yet you can get that for free on xbox. Then there is day one releases but until microsoft start pumping out them bangers being developed its not much of a shout.

@daveofduncan i think stocksy has a point though.

@themightyant imho ps now was a dumpster fire and sony need to get on that downloadable games via service faster. 90% of microsoft xbox and pc games store is cloud streamable and downloadable and thats not even something you pay for.

@suikoden why is it such a stretch of the imagination that pc already has a unofficial ps3 and ps4 emulator. If sony wanted it too happen you would have a ps3 emulator on ps5. Even the ps4 could of emulated a ps3 but as you know some emulators need header room too run background code and on ps4 that would of been very tight but still possible. The problem is that sony dont want you to know or be doing is running background code like a emulator would do.

There are also licensing restrictions so they dont want you to be able to run unlicensed code/games on a separate system.

@Stocksy I'm a fellow realist believe it or not. But Sony will get s**t on no matter what way they approach this. They'll keep getting harassed for a gamepass 'competitor' until this launches then as you say, backlash over lack of day 1 first party titles.

My point in regard to your initial comment was that you didn't mention delaying it. You just said they're releasing it in a bad way. I took that as you having a go at the gradual rollout of it instead of releasing it at the same time for everyone. So that's my bad but I'm tired of the trolls in these comments.

As for it not taking off and getting ignored, we're talking about Sony's crown jewel in ps plus. There's no way they're gonna ignore it. Aslong as we need it for online play, they won't lose Netflix numbers. It was the best solution for ps now too. That thing was going nowhere.

Aslong as we get the odd first party title (like we are with returnal/Spiderman etc) I'm sure the majority of realists will be happy with the service. I'm of the opinion that they're still working on deals and licensing in regards to titles that'll be on the service too. Assuming they'll have a concrete list closer to the start of June before it launches in Asia or wherever it's launching first. We're not paying anything towards it just now so I'm more than happy to wait until Sony are ready and confident enough to reveal all.

Last but not least, the one thing that could possibly happen down the line is that they combine the extra and premium tiers.