Game news PS5: The long-awaited PlayStation Plus Premium feature is finally available for select games!
Published on 05/12/2022 at 08:28
A few months after the implementation of PlayStation Plus Premium, the most complete subscription of the service of the same name, Sony has listened to the players by integrating a long-awaited feature! Now you can enjoy classic PS1 games on the same terms as American and Japanese players!
If the debate between 50Hz and 60Hz display has disappeared on modern consoles, then there was a time when every European release was scrutinized in the hope that there would be no discounted version. For a long time, Europe had to make do with 50Hz games that were slower and sometimes shorter than their American and Japanese counterparts. We’ve had pleasant surprises from time to time when we’ve used an optimized 50Hz display that mimics a 60Hz display, but that wasn’t in the publisher’s habit. The advent of the Dreamcast was finally a bit of a revolution in the sense that its titles, for the vast majority, let you choose between two types of display. Because it also depended on your TV, some accepted 60hz, others didn’t.
Are PS1 games finally in 60Hz on PS5?
When Sony launched PlayStation Plus Premium and gave access to PS1 games, purists were disappointed because those games ran at 50Hz in Europe. Well, as of Friday, Ape Escape and Siphon Filter have an option to switch to the 60Hz setting for an experience worthy of Japanese standards! Concretely, the two games benefit from faster animations, full-screen display, and it changes a lot in anticipation. For now, those are the two games that will benefit from this improvement (with the exception of Jumping Flash and its optimized 50Hz, and Tekken 2, Mr. Driller and Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey which are in the US version).
It remains to be seen if other games will benefit from these optimizations, but there is hope that Sony’s intentions, which previously said it plans to do the same for most games, will be confirmed by the facts. Ape Escape and Siphon Filter are heading in that direction, good news!