“Downloadable and add-on content is not supported while streaming a title”, according to Sony

Every day we learn something new about what we can – and more importantly can’t – expect from the multi-tiered redesign of PlayStation Plus launching on June 13 in North America. Today is a caveat regarding the subscription’s streamable PS3 games: namely, you won’t be able to access any of their DLCs. This was a problem previously with cloud-based games played via PlayStation Now, and it will still be present with PlayStation Plus Premium.

As pointed out by Video Games Chronicle, Sony confirmed this week that “DLC and add-on content are not supported while streaming a title.”

This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise given the previous limitation with PlayStation Now, but offering DLC ​​would have been a good chance for Sony to increase the value of streaming PS3 games. $120 a year for PlayStation Plus Premium isn’t exactly an easy sell.

Pour another for asura’s fury

For me, the big oversight is Tokyo Jungle, which had fun DLC animals, including a wage earner, a saber-toothed tiger, and a fat cat. For the rest of the anime-loving world, the lack of DLC for asura’s fury pricks even worse – the story is incomplete without it.

In the Americas, PlayStation Plus Premium will offer streaming PS3 games like Demon’s Souls, MotorStorm Apocalypse, Puppeteer, Resistance 3, Super Stardust HDand Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, among others. You can preview the PS3 lineup streaming here.

What about DLCs for PS4 and PS5 games in Extra and Premium tiers?

It should be noted that, according to Sony, players “can purchase DLC and add-on content for the [PS4 and PS5] games you download from the Games Catalog via PlayStation Plus.

“If your subscription expires or content leaves the service, you will also lose access to DLC and additional content associated with this game. Once you re-subscribe to the service or decide to purchase the title, you will be able to use your purchased downloadable and add-on content again.

Offline play is possible with recordings

I was also curious about the online recordings. According to Sony, “game catalog titles in the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium/Deluxe plans” will require a connection to PlayStation Network every seven days for validation, at which point you can continue to play them offline. This rule does not apply to “monthly free games” offered in the (cheapest) PlayStation Plus Essential plan – no weekly registration required.

Overall, I don’t know if or when PlayStation Plus Premium will win me over, but I’ll spend a few bucks here and there on piecemeal PS1 classics, most likely. As Dan said in Slack today, “My PS3 will be hooked up as a PS1-3 machine for another decade, I guess.”

Jordan Devore

Jordan is a founding member of Destructoid and posts seemingly random images. They are anything but random.