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What's the Deal With PS Plus' New Game Trials? - Beyond 747

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of IGN's PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Jada Griffin and Mark Medina to dig into the various bits of PlayStation news this week, including new updates for PS5, PlayStation Plus, and PlayStation's PC and preservation plans. After a brief Beyond Movies and TV podcast interlude about Everything Everywhere All at Once (no spoilers but you can skip ahead with timecodes below!), the gang dives into all the new reports surrounding PS Plus' new game trials. We break down what the deal is with these new game trials, how they affect PS Plus' offerings, what exactly they are as compared to traditional demos, and much more. We break down what it might mean for players, how it could raise questions for developers, and whether the practice might change the expectations for playing on PlayStation with its revamped subscription service Next, the group discusses Variable Refresh Rate coming to PS5, and also gets sidetracked discussing Ghostwire Tokyo...which does not have confirmed VRR support! But we do discuss the new feature a bit, what games are receiving the update, and Sony's general approach to the feature for PS5 games. Plus, we discuss the release date for the new PS Plus, what games are coming for PS Plus in May, and a lot more news in the world of PlayStation 4, PS5, and more. Topics include PlayStation's reported new preservation team, patches for Elden Ring and Sifu, Mark's marriage, and more. We also read a beautiful Memory Card story from a Beyond! listener, Jonathon offers a Trophy Test for the panel, and more! (Headline meant to be read in a Jerry Seinfeld voice) 00:00:10 - Intro & EEAAO Chat! 00:05:28 - PS Plus Announces Game Trial Initiative 00:33:25 - VRR Comes to PS5 00:48:38 - PS+ Games for May 00:56:55 - More News 01:07:36 - Memory Card & Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:11.2

Beyond and hello everyone, my name is Jonathan Dorvishin.

0:14.2

This is podcast Beyond, IGN's Weekly PlayStation Show,

0:17.0

covering all the latest and greatest in the world of PlayStation.

0:19.9

And boy, do we have a lot of sort of varied PlayStation news to talk about this week.

0:24.3

Our favorite leaker of all time, LinkedIn, has given us a lot of details

0:28.2

about certain things happening in the world of PlayStation.

0:30.8

Plus some other big news, a new sort of firmware update.

0:35.2

I guess, but a big new feature has come to PlayStation 5

0:37.7

that people have been looking forward to for a long time.

0:39.5

And we're going to talk about a new feature of PlayStation Plus

0:42.1

that we've gotten new details about that have caused some merciness

0:45.9

and some confusion.

0:46.8

So we're going to break it down, get into how it all works

0:49.5

and our thoughts on it.

0:50.9

But before we do, I'm joined this week by Jada Griffin.

0:53.9

Hello, hello.

0:55.0

Confusion in the game industry, that's never a thing.

0:58.3

Never happens.

1:00.2

But also, I finished Severance finally.

1:02.2

And it was fine.

1:05.6

What the hell?

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