Games like Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and the very first Lumines with its full soundtrack intact to name a few. Some of the best PSP games one might include with the PS Plus Premium subscription have never been re-released digitally since their launch as UMDs (physical little discs wrapped in fragile plastic shells that the PSP used instead of cartridges).

In fairness, it’s a complicated catalogue. Sony clearly has a complicated history with its retro catalogue. Though PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, who once infamously asked “ why would anybody play this,” before Sony tried to shut down some of the only ways to legally play said classic games, until the company partially relented last year after backlash, now clarifies that he “ played those games and loved those games 20-odd years ago.” Sony didn’t announce a library (or even specify a single classic game) alongside the announcement at all. That’s clearly not what’s happening here. It would be very, very nice to simply download the entire, incredible library of PlayStation games on my PlayStation 5. The slightly confusing list of names and stuff that goes with them is also a perfect metaphor for the confusing, hard-to-categorize history of PlayStation itself. The middle tier includes that plus “a catalog of up to 400* of the most enjoyable PS4 and PS5 games.” The final tier, PS Plus Premium, hits you with the aforementioned goodies and PS1, PS2, PSP, as well as PS3 games, split across streaming and downloads. The lowest tier functions like PS Plus does now - basically as a service fee to play games online, with a couple games included every month. The online service subscription will grow to include three tiers: PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra, and PlayStation Plus Premium. PlayStation Plus is getting the ( previously leaked) expansion many have been asking for.

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