September’s PlayStation Plus Essential games have been revealed

From VGC: "September 2022’s free PlayStation Plus Essential games have been revealed by their usual leaker.

Dealabs user billbil-kun, who has been accurately leaking the PS Plus line-ups almost every month since September 2021, has revealed what they claim to be the new titles coming to the service in September.

The new batch of games reportedly includes Need for Speed Heat, Toem and Granblue Fantasy Versus."

[Orchard]

Pretty weak month if true. My suspicion is that they’ll let this go the same way as GWG now that they have a premium content subscription.

[Terry_B]

The last two months count against your theory, but lets see.

Granblue Fantasy Versus is an excellent fighting game at least..didnt play the other two

[SullysCigar]

I'll take a throwaway racer and an awesome fighting game!

Don't know anything about Toem, but heard it's good, so I'll give it a shot for a bit.

[MadLad]

I mean, it's really just PS Now rebranded. The numbers were terrible, so they just threw it in with the PS Plus numbers you need to play online. That way they don't have one large service that you basically need just to play online, and one premium alternate service that nobody liked.

Xbox tried to do the the same thing, but not really at the same time.
I think the only reason they wanted to double gold was to just push people onto Gamepass, but the outcry was too hard and too quick, and they were actually gaining a positive image in the gaming space again, so why ruin it.

Just now when Sony does crappy moves they stick to it and expect you to follow blindly and happily.

[Knushwood Butt]

'I mean, it's really just PS Now rebranded. The numbers were terrible, so they just threw it in with the PS Plus numbers you need to play online. That way they don't have one large service that you basically need just to play online, and one premium alternate service that nobody liked.'.

Did you just figure this out?

Also, are you going to post this every month?

[CrimsonWing69]

I’m not understanding your complaint. Are you frustrated at the PS+ games you get or, on an entirely unrelated note, you’re upset that they merged PS Now with PS+ Premium and negate any of the other libraries (PS1 classics for example) that are included with the service?

I’m not sure why merging PS Now with PS+ is anything to complain about. There’s a lot of games on there I’ve been wanting to play and now I can under a single subscription. To get these PS+ games you don’t need to change what tier your PS+ subscription is.

[BLow]

People complained that the services were separate. Sony combines both services and people still complain. Never fails.

Honestly, I don't have time to play the games I've bought throughout the years, my backlog is pretty big. These services will just make that backlog even bigger lol.

I have a life outside of gaming and don't play every single game I want day one and beat it lol. People who are complaining about the titles in the library are extremely picky or have played everything. That's not the services fault lol. Gaming is a selfish habit and people only think about themselves in any given situation.

Happy gaming and no disagree from me.

[garryxcs]

"and expect you to follow blindly and happily."

lol, gotta love the irony of that comment.

[monkey602]

I'm not interested in GranBlue or Need for Speed but they're great choices to add in fairness. Granblue is very well regarded and looks like a fantastic game. I'm just not likely to play either.

I'll check Toem out though. Had an eye on that for a while

[generic-user-name]

Your suspicion or your hope?

[CaptainHenry916]

Hope

[garryxcs]

Your suspicions are probably wrong and this is far batter than the GWG offering for the month regardless.

[SierraGuy]

I'm guessing you haven't seen xbox's offering this month?

Please stfu.

[Mr_Luke]

Good, i didn't buy any of them. I don't care about NFS but Toem is great and long time since i don't play a beat'em up, so Grandblue Fantasy is great for me. Now i'm curious to see what's coming with Extra :D

[GhostScholar]

The games with gold titles are always weak, but its funny that sony raises the price of the ps5 and then comes with the worst ps plus games in a while. It feels like they are dropping the ball like Microsoft did in the Xbox one era

[Crows90]

So....if anything they're dropping the ball with pricing like in the PS3 era....Xbox one had barely any games...PS5 is likely not going that route.

[ChasterMies]

“worst ps plus games in a while”

How short are our memories? Wasn’t a year ago that PS Plus released a cut down version of Godfall and a standalone version of Borderlands DLC that was included in a previous PS+ offering.

[GhostScholar]

I would consider a year ago to be a while.......so.....

[darthv72]

Not "always"... XB has given some bangers in their day. Gears 5, Sunset Overdrive, Forza 6. And those are just a few of the recent XBO era titles. On 360 they gave a bunch of really good games like Fable 3, Halo 3, Gears 2 and many more. My guess as to why people crap on it is because they have given some stinkers. And it is those they remember instead of the good ones.

It's easier to remember the bad than the good but if you want a full list....
https://en.everybodywiki.co...

Oh and as a tip, you really shouldn't speak in absolutes. If you dont know what that means... google it.

[BrainSyphoned]

Doesn't seem horrid but the chances of me booting up any of them this year is slim to none.

[CrimsonWing69]

I actually think this is a good month. I won’t touch Toem, but Gran Blue and Need for Speed are great!

[Knushwood Butt]

Actually, I'm the opposite! Only interested in Toem.

[CrimsonWing69]

Fair enough.

[z2g]

wah waaahhhh.

[aroundmen]

Looking forward to something cool next month

[CobraKai]

I thought they were pulling back on PS4 games

[cluclap]

There aren't enough PS5 only titles for them to pull back this early.

[waderae]

As the dust settles on the MLB/Death stranding on gampass "fiasco"....

Deathloop appears on PS+ ....

[cluclap]

Which is weird because death stranding is 3 years old and it's the kind of game where if you wanted to play it you would've already (was free for a while on ps) and people complaining about mlb would've never played it anyway lol

[LoveSpuds]

Excited to try Toem, I resisted buying it digitally as I am holding out for a physical release, so this will do nicely until that opportunity arises.

[badboyz09]

weakkkkk

[philm87]

Games like Toem are what I want from PS Plus. It's a game I would probably never buy normally, but will potentially have a great experience and fun with.