It may have stumbled a little bit, but now that Sony’s PlayStation Network is back online, the company is trying to buy back its customers with free games. Here’s what you can get.
To be eligible for the free stuff, you must have been a PSN member on April 20 this year. With that caveat out of the way, here’s what’s on offer:
All existing PlayStation Network members will be able to access the following from PlayStation Store*:
Two PS3 games from the following list:
• LittleBigPlanet
• Infamous*
• Wipeout HD/Fury
• Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
• Dead Nation*For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:
• LittleBigPlanet PSP
• ModNation PSP
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation*- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers*
- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will be given 60 days free subscription.
- For existing Music Unlimited subscribers, you will be given 30 days free subscription.
- We are working on a Welcome Back offer in PlayStation Home and will share that when it is confirmed.
The games can be redeemed after the PSN Store goes back online, whenever that may happen.
So what do you think, PlayStation owners? Is this enough to persuade you to spend your time gaming on Sony’s platform?
[Sony]
Commdice
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:50 AMNot Good enough, some better games would be nice!!!!
Alex K
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:29 PMdude. it doesn’t get better than WipEout HD/Fury.
dougy
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:59 AMToo loate sony, i already got me a xbox and xbl connections are 10 x better :-)
Cav
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:00 AMWhat do the *’s mean Nick?
Trjn
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:24 AMThose are games unavailable in Germany, because this came from the PSN Europe blog.
Jason
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:06 AMEven though these games are full ps3 titles and pretty decent ones at that, they’re old ones that have all been available on the psn store for ages and personally I think that that isn’t good enough. So many ppl would already have these games.
In my opinion, Sony should have made available at least one AAA title that had never been offered on the psn before.
Dave
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 12:43 PMSeconding this, any of those games I wanted I already have.
For me the xbox was already sounding more attractive because of kinect. I haven’t traded in because I wanted to see how they would have handled this, and being a psn subscriber for over a year kind of felt I had already invested into them.
I think they should have opened the entire library for their users to choose 2 from and eat the costs.
Dan
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:08 AMThat’s poor Sony. At least give us redemption cards so we can walk into any store and get a free PS3 game of are choice.
Ash
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:10 AMYup.
I’ve got an eXbox tharr collecting dust and have been itching for the PSN to come back online. I suppose I’m one of the ones who’d be going back anyways though so my vote doesn’t count ;).
Definitely appreciate the gesture though Sony.
Mark
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:17 AMGoodbye PSN subscription.
Gino Rodrigo
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:21 AMHaven’t left, and actually found something else to do – like watch baseball – so two free games on PS3 and PSP for practicing my patience and/or mild indifference? Gladly.
david
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:23 AMNot bad but I am still pretty worried about all my personal details out for sale. Sony only offered the identity protection deal to Us members which is a joke. Also what about reimbursement that I couldn’t watch MLB.tv on my ps3 for a whole month, I payed for it to use it exclusively on the ps3, don’t have a pc in a watchable location. It isn’t mlb’s fault as it is songs crap restrictions that make apps like MLB be required to sign into the psn network just to load the app.
Nick
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:23 AMFrankly most of those games are old and not what I personally play.
Obviously Sony only wants to release games that can be paid for in wooden dollars from their own developers.
Why not release something decent and new like SOCOM 4, MotorStorm: Apocolypse or Killzone 3?
Joel
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:53 AMOh it’s horrible.. they’re giving away free decent title games and subscriptions to try and make up for something that wasn’t completely their fault in the first place.. why don’t they continue to lose millions of dollars by allowing us all to download a new title for free without taking into account the developers and the unfairness of giving everyone a free copy of the game from one developer and not the other. Bye PSN subscription I can’t believe you just offered me free games.
Jason
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:21 AMIt was partially their fault for having such poor security, especially when they were dealing with 100 million people’s credit card details and they have to offer something to retain customers because its such a competitive market.. I agree they can’t just give away new games for free but they could have given older AAA title’s away that weren’t available on the psn until now. Giving away games that they’ve been selling for ages now is a slap in the face to those who’ve already bought them.
DansDans
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:03 PM@Joel – finally, an intelligent post (loved the use of sarcasm too)
Too bad I had to read all the fucking whinging comments above yours
Lyall
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:54 AMAre you sure this is available in aus? So far it just been US, Europe and sort of Latin America.
Nick Broughall
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:10 AMYeah, Australia falls under the European umbrella with Sony. These are the games that we’ll have access to when the Store goes live again.
gam3rm0v35
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:01 AM2 free games is good. Range to choose from is not.
TSH
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:03 AMwoot, free gaems! And cheap DLC for a while!
I don’t have much time for gaming these days, so having a couple extra casual titles on standby will be great.
Nathan
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:18 AMShame the games are all old platinum titles which basically just means WE ALREADY HAVE THEM ALL SONY!
MMOGam3r
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:20 AMIt’s a nice gesture by Sony, however it doesn’t mention anything about their Sony Online Entertainment (EverQuest / Star Wars Galaxies / Matrix Online etc) which was also shutdown as a result of the breach….. Wonder if those subscribers will be getting anything…
Dave
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 AMI signed my wife up for PSN – she played GT5 once and wanted to buy her own car – so i guess that means 4 free games for me :)
Mr Odd
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:44 AMI better check, I think my wife has an account too for the same reason.
Bjorn Rostron
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:41 PMwin mine does too :)
Chumly
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:50 AMpretty happy with that.
I’m actually pretty happy with the way Sony has handled the whole thing to be honest – don’t know what all these people who are up in arms expect from a company dealing with a breach this size.
It’s a shame I have every game on that list (except Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation) but getting a free digital copy so I can palm off the disc is nice.
If anyone’s listening at Sony can you throw in GoW1&2? ;-)
Painkiller
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 12:04 PMMy favorite line is this story is “It may have stumbled a little bit”. Stumbled a bit? The network was down almost a month and thousands of people had there private information and credit card details stolen.
Its more like a catastrophic implosion. ‘sorry you had your identity stolen, have Little Big Planet for free to make up for it.
Sorry Sony you failed again, Epically.
Im_a_pc
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 12:15 PMI wouldn’t care if they DIDN’T offer anything. Thanks for the offer Sony. I might take you up on LittleBigPlanet.
queppa
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 12:56 PMif they really wanted to make people happy they’d offer any game thats available for download. not just a selection. makes sense though as sony don’t care less about their customers. all they care about is the bottom line. I had a ps3 that i played for 2 months from new. after it sat in storage for 2 years, i pulled it out to play it again. and after 10 mins the blue ray drive stopped working. all sony said was send it back and pay $250 to get it fixed. they didn’t care at all that I’d only got two months of use from it and could prove all the storage time etc. Nintendo on the other hand replaced my gameboy from lines on the screen for free after 10 years, replaced a snes that stopped working after about 10 years, and still courier all 4 controls to my front door whenever the joysticks play up. all for free too. now THAT is caring about customers.
Joel
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:42 PMThen go buy a Wii?
Grant
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PMGreat already own them, now what?
ihateupants
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:31 PMQueppa – no offence mate but I dont think Nintendo really did any of those things for free.
Sony Fans – What happened sucks, but dont try to pretend it was nothing. In this day in age of brand awareness, what happened was a huge issue.
Xbopx fans – dont poke at sony or sony fans. Sit back, enjoy that your service is up and wasnt the target of this attack. be smug, or proud, or whatever, but be quiet – your turn could be next.
Bjorn Rostron
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM+1
Latchland
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 6:39 AMagreed
rich
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 3:41 PMwhich games should i get? I have none of them…
Latchland
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 6:42 AMLittle Big Planet is fun as hell. But it’s better when you play it with another person next to you. It’s funny when they miss a gap and you don’t. FRIEND CO-OP FAIL. I’d go with that.
If you want something to play on your own, Infamaous and Wipeout are always fun. Not sure about Dead Nation. Not really into the zombie thing. Oh, and Ratchet and Clank? I think that is a insult SONY! LOL
Ron
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:14 PMWhat about those of us that used PSN to rent movies? I haven’t played a game on my PS3 for years but it’s my primary source of rentals… that is, it was.
Why not just credit the PSN wallet so we can do what we want with it? I very much doubt I’ll be giving them another credit card number again. I can’t wait for Australia to get a decent media streaming service. No wonder we pirate.
Now my PS3 will be used for the sole purpose of streaming iView and media from my PC.