PlayStation Plus features a plethora of games throughout its three tiers, Essential, Extra, and Premium. The vast library of PlayStation and third-party titles could be confusing to navigate for some players. Fortunately, a helpful website provides a new tool to sort the large quantity of games in PS Plus.
The PS Plus game library grew exponentially with the launch of the new PS Plus tiers. PlayStation's subscription service integrates the cloud streaming services of PlayStation Now while introducing a number of classic PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable games to play on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Additionally, cloud streaming allows these classic games to be played through PC. As a result, PS Plus subscribers have multiple ways to try out hundreds of games, and more games are added every month.
To help traverse the game catalog, website Plat Prices provides a tool to sort through nearly 400 PS Plus Extra games by a variety of categories. Users may sort these games by alphabet, review scores, price, active discounts, difficulty, completion time, and release date. The review scores used in Plat Prices are aggregated through OpenCritic. Additionally, Plat Prices also displays how much time is left for a particular game's discount. The website tracks overall price history for sale prices and PS Plus prices.
Plat Prices provides descriptions for each game, which are identical to the descriptions found in the PS Store. Furthermore, users may add individual games to a wishlist or list it in their personal library of owned games. If a user is disinterested in a game, a hide option is also available. Plat Prices provides Amazon links to each PlayStation game for those interested in potentially purchasing a physical edition.
Some PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers may be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of games offered, but Plat Prices provides a convenient solution through web browsers. The website is very helpful for tracking prices and discounts as well, allowing users to determine the best price possible to purchase a game. Completionists and trophy hunters should have no problem finding their next potential game to pursue through Plat Prices.
With Plat Prices serving as a great example, PlayStation could learn to improve its own tools within the PS Store. More new additions continue to bolster the PS Plus library each month, potentially hurting visibility of older games. To maintain an organized PS Store, PlayStation should look into improving its own sorting functions to encourage discoverability of PS Plus games on PS4 and PS5.
Source: Plat Prices