Today has been an interesting day for PlayStation Plus. Following a big month in February where subscribers finally got Knack after years of clamoring, Sony announced that March will bring both Bloodborne and Ratchet & Clank to PS4 owners. That’s three major first-party releases in the space of two months. Having such a rousing month of games might have been to soften the blow on another announcement. Starting in March of next year, the PS Plus Instant Game Collection will no longer include PS3 or Vita titles in its offerings. Talk of an awesome month of games was mixed with outrage over Sony dropping four games from the monthly offerings, but what are people really mad about" What does dropping PS3 and Vita games actually mean for the Instant Game Collection" To look forward, we have to look back a bit. Since September, Sony has been offering a bonus seventh game–a PSVR title–each month, in addition to the usual two PS4, two PS3, and two Vita titles that we get. The PSVR game offering was odd, staying in the collection for two months instead of one, before being cycled out and replaced with a new one. With today’s PS Plus announcement for March, no new PSVR game was added to replace Starblood Arena, which will be exiting its free period when the new games go live on March 6.
I don’t know exactly how contracts for Plus games work, but on the simple side a predetermined amount is agreed upon and paid by Sony to the rights holder o...