Sometime this week Sony will announce the March 2022 PlayStation Plus games PS Plus subscribers on PS4 and PS5 will get to add to their library, for “free.” If history repeats itself, it will be a trio of games and they will go live on March 1, the first Tuesday of the month. We know this because each month’s free PS Plus games always release on the first Tuesday of each month. There’s no reason to expect this to change. What we do expect is a lackluster offering for a variety of reasons.
For one, March is a big month for PlayStation and the partners it’s closely worked with on everything from exclusivity deals to marketing rights. On March 3, Babylon’s Fall releases as a PlayStation console exclusive. This is a third-party game PlayStation has marketed pretty heavily. The following day, its own game, Gran Turismo 7, releases. On March 15, Grand Theft Auto V comes to PS5 (and Xbox…