5. PlayStation Plus Premium

Availability

So you’re a mainstay PlayStation player? If so, your only real option for game streaming is PlayStation Plus Premium. You can also connect it to a PC, though the service is still limited to either Windows or PS5. Though Sony recently revamped the service and made it more expensive, your mileage may vary on how much you want to pay for the monthly subscription, even considering you get some free titles every month and discounts on some titles, but as of now, this is the only way to stream PlayStation titles. Hell, you can’t even stream on the PlayStation Portal remote player.

Game Library

A few hits are available to stream through PlayStation Plus Premium, but if you’ve kept up with the latest titles coming to Sony’s premiere console, you may walk away disappointed. You can stream Death Stranding or Disco Elysium The Final Cut, but you won’t find many of the latest exclusive titles to come from the last few years. You can still download games like God of War Ragnarok to the PS5 itself, but that won’t help you if you truly want to play a game on a system that normally can’t support it. PlayStation Plus Premium also gains access to a few titles from the Ubisoft+, though most of them are titles from its “Classics” catalog (see the Luna section for more details on that).

Pricing

One month of PlayStation Plus Premium is $18, or $50 for three months. Want to do a yearly subscription? You’ll need $160 to access all Premium has to offer.

Other Considerations

The streaming quality on PlayStation is actually rather good. Compared to Game Pass, you can stream the games at 4K resolution at 60 FPS, compared to Xbox’s service being limited to 1080p. Interestingly enough, Sony uses Microsoft Azure for its content streaming.

You still do get a few monthly games to download with Premium, plus extra bits of cloud storage to make up for the PS5’s limited SSD space. However, I’ve been routinely disappointed over the free games that make their way to Premium or Extra PlayStation Plus tiers. It’s very hit or miss, and there could be months where you don’t come across any games you’re interested in playing.