PlayStation Plus Subscription Launched

The PlayStation 3 recently received its 3.4 firmware update, and with the patch comes the launch of PlayStation Plus, the online subscription service revealed at the Sony's E3 Press Conference. In case you've forgotten, a one-year subscription to the service will run you $50 and will net early subscribers an additional three months with the service for free. The full list of features can be found in our E3 article on the service, but what deals and specials will Plus subscribers have access to if they join the service today?
 
 

Subscriber Exclusive Demos

•   inFamous
  

Free Content

PSN Games

•   Wipeout HD

PS1 Classics

•   Rally Cross 

PlayStation Minis

• Age Of Zombies

DLC

• Cuboid Booster Pack
• Cuboid Bundle Pack
• Cuboid Level Editor
• Magic Orbz Booster Pack
• Magic Orbz Jungle Pack
• Mahjong Tale: Ancient Wisdom Booster Pack
• Smash Cars Virus-Run AddOn
  
• Warhawk Fallen Star Pack 
  

Premium Themes

• Collision Theme

Avatar Items

• Fat Princess Avatar-Pink
• Fat Princess Avatar-Blue

Discounted Content

Games

• Cuboid ($7.99)
• Fat Princess Roles Expansion ($3.99)
• Gauntlet II ($2.50)
• Hamster Ball ($7.99)
• Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos ($7.99)
• Magic Orbz ($7.99)
• Mahjong Tale: Ancient Wisdom ($7.99)
• Mortal Kombat II ($2.50)
• Rampage ($2.50)
• Rampart ($2.50)
• Smash Cars ($11.99) 
• Wakeboarding HD ($11.99)

for £40 a year, I can see getting it, maybe just for those free games which seem a decent deal

Love how a post about DJ Hero dlc has more comments than this :)

Initial offers could have been more interesting. I'll wait and see how this progresses, but it's not gonna fly if all they offer up is one decent PSN game and great game pretty much every PS3 owner already has.

I'm interested, but they should have launched with better stuff than this. Something new maybe?

PS3 Video editor & Uploader weren't part of the Plus service surprisingly and are free to all. Deep Colour HDMI addition is some major future-proofing to boot.

I either have everything or am completely uninterested in everything currently on the service.

"Hey guys, let's give away this shit that we can't sell."

No thanks.

The free stuff pays for this subscription in spades, so I'm all over this.

seems like a waste of money to me.

I'm just gonna wait until they strap a bunch more total content into the free stuff. Right now all that stuff makes PSPlus look really bland and limited.

I don't see anything that is grabbing my attention. 

 I think the most exciting thing about this is the possibility of more full sized, disc based games coming to PSN.  It's probably worth another $30 to me to not have to pop in the Infamous disc when I want to play it.  More of this Sony, more of this.

I am definitly down.
15 months of renting quality PSN games should be charged, and I expect some surprises from the PSN.

I don't see the point of this right now. You pay $50 dollars a year and.... you don't get anything that exciting or nessasary.

Going to wait until they offer better stuff

bunch of junk.

I'm having trouble actually finding a contract of what exactly this service offers. In some places I hear the full game trials are only 2 a month, not the entire catalog of available downloadable games. Also you can only download them once? The whole thing seems weird, and I don't really want to see marketing hype and FAQs I want to see the legal contract that defines stuff like content expiry and the like. uk.playstation.com/playstationplus/ has a much more in depth look than it's US counterpart, and http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/06/24/playstation-plus-your-questions-answered/ is also a lot deeper.  According to the latter, apparently the free games are available to you forever, even if they rotate off the Playstation Plus list. That information should be more front and centre.

If they asked 50 to provide a service on par with live, I'd be down.

" I don't see the point of this right now. You pay $50 dollars a year and.... you don't get anything that exciting or nessasary. "

Right now this just seems like a rip off unless that start offering better stuff.

" @Scooper said:

" I don't see the point of this right now. You pay $50 dollars a year and.... you don't get anything that exciting or nessasary. "

Free Wipeout HD. $20 value on the first month out of 14. "

I already own Wipeout HD, Infamous, AND the Warhawk expansion.
 
The rest is as close to rubbish as PSN is likely to get. I'll wait and see where this is all headed before I commit.

Plus still has possibilities but for now I'm not so in to it yet.

I would pay if they also allowed my trophies on Giant Bomb

I already have Most of those games so its not for me, its worth mentioning that in first month you get over 80$ of stuff, that is impressive, and really cool, but at least for first month i am going to skip, since like i said, nothing for me since i have most it already.
I think Plus is good if you buy a lot of stuff from PSN, then it is must buy.

Y'all calling the offering junk, need to play Wipeout HD.  That game is fucking fantastic.  I don't really care what you think about the service as a whole.  That isn't what this is about.  This about Wipeout HD.
 
I'll probably get the service, at least try it for one year, when they offer a good free game that I don't already have.  I payed for XBL once, and learned that it wasn't worth it.  The same will probably happen with this, but I'll give it a fair shake.

Well, I bought my playstation plus subsription this morning, so I guess it's too late for me to change my mind

I signed up for 3 months earlier today for $17.99. I have already downloaded more than what I paid for. 

" I like that you get free games, what I don't like is having to purchase them if you cancel your subscription. There will have to be alot more content in future for me to purhase a subsciption. "

I don't have wipeout hd, the warhawk expansion or age of zombies its worth 18 dollars for that alone, but i also kinda of want Mortal Kombat II. Jeff call me we'll play some time.

Also,  tip for SCEE customers. We get LBP for free aswell as wipeout

God still have not updated the ps3 browser I'll get it only if they do 
I want GB to work on my PS3!

Nothing too compelling here. Maybe next time Sony.

I'm really happy with the EU deal this month, but can't please everyone, hopfully there will be stuff for people who seem to think this is a "ripoff".

Damn I thought the 3 month thing would be an independent trial that we could see if we liked the service, not an addition to the service if we buy it.  Try before you buy Sony!  Seems they still don't get that concept. :(  

No thanks. 

"According to the latter, apparently the free games are available to you forever, even if they rotate off the Playstation Plus list. That information should be more front and centre. "

If you really think about it it'll only take you 3 or 4 months to make your money back.

I can't wait when they start offering "air in a bag". Sign me up. 
 
sorry, j/k. the deal doesn't seem bad at all, maybe not glamorous, but not bad either.

Nice. So Sony is essentially just LIVE now.

" Nice. So Sony is essentially just LIVE now. "

" I already own Wipeout HD, Infamous, AND the Warhawk expansion.  The rest is as close to rubbish as PSN is likely to get. I'll wait and see where this is all headed before I commit. "

" Damn I thought the 3 month thing would be an independent trial that we could see if we liked the service, not an addition to the service if we buy it.  Try before you buy Sony!  Seems they still don't get that concept. :(   "

" for £40 a year, I can see getting it, maybe just for those free games which seem a decent deal "

free games - £40

...what?

no not really excited to pay monthly for anything... there's only one thing I really want to buy these days concerning games and it's not a PSN upgrade.

Free Hulu Plus with subscription and I'm in. Right now it has nothing I don't already have or want. Now a beta for Medal of Honor might get me to buy the 3 month subscription though.